[bksvol-discuss] Re: pre-marking RTF files
- From: "Mary Anne Lynskey" <yeksnyl1953am@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:46:00 -0400
I think it's a great idea, with a consistent list of markers of course! I
read through the books I validate anyway and most, but not all, of the ones
I submit. I'd mark the ones I read before submitting also.
The only question I have is that some pages are blank between chapters, book
sections, etc. But some pages that appear blank on a scan may have
pictures.
I don't usually pay much attention to pics as I don't always have sighted
help to describe them. What about these cases?
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Mary Anne Lynskey
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:11 AM
To: Bookshare Vol Group
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] pre-marking RTF files
Hi gang,
Okay, here's the situation. In the future, Bookshare wants to add markers to
RTF files, to pre-mark various parts of books. There would be markers that
mean "this is the start of a chapter", "this is a picture caption", "this is
an appendix", that sort of thing. Naturally we're wondering if volunteers
could add in these markers to their books. {There are markers in MS Word,
like Heading 1, Heading 2, that could be used, except that not everyone uses
MS Word, and it's a bit confusing to use them anyway.) The markers in the
RTF files would be used to generate DAISY markers, thus enabling better
navigation of DAISY books.
So the big question to everyone is: is there a markup scheme that everyone
would be willing to put into their RTF files? If Bookshare said that 4
colons in a row means "this is the start of a chapter", how many people
would actually add 4 colons at the start of each chapter?
It would be great if Bookshare could look at a book and figure out where the
front matter starts and stops, where the text starts and stops, where the
chapters, figures, tables, indices, bibiliographies, etc all start and stop,
but it's actually a very difficult process. So we're hoping that if we can
get even a few volunteers to add markers to their files, it would make life
that much easier.
As you can tell, I'm just sending a flag up a flagpole and seeing if anyone
salutes. What does everyone think of adding markers to RTF files?
Thanks for your many and varied opinions! Carrie
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