[bksvol-discuss] Re: pre-marking RTF files
- From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:00:14 -0400
Hi,
Word really messes up HTML. Please, let's not go there. Instead, I wonder
out loud if we couldn't create a Word template that could be used with the
Microsoft Save as DAISY plug-in to automate the process that way some how.
Just dreaming. We could make a menu in Word called Bookshare Markup and all
the choices for markup would be on the menu and no-one would have to
remember a thing. I was successful day before yesterday in making a menu of
favorite commands. I put it right on the Word menu bar. It would just take
a little more learning to figure out how to make a Word template for
whatever the staff comes up with. Then, when you sign up to be a volunteer,
you would be given instructions about how to use the template and no
anxiety once it gets installed on your computer. If you don't use Word to
validate, maybe we can figure out a way to make it easy for you also.
Thanks.
Jim
Jim
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Well html is no problem to learn and easy to use. Microsoft Word word has
a
built in editor and conversion program.
Finding a working optacon with battery and charger may prove harder to
find.
Not many type fonts transcriped into braille. Capitalization, italics,
bold,
underline, quotes come to mind. Maybe the standards for Braille test books
will do, as they have been used for years.
Colleen Edwards
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From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Optacon would be the answer, but it would be Extremely tedious and
> time-consuming.
>
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> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:43 PM
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>> Hi all. I like Monica's suggestions. I am also a Kurzweil editor. I have
>> no desire whatever to learn about html, and I know from experience that
>> using Word to look for random changes in font is extremely difficult if
>> not impossible. Totally blind people certainly can deal with and work
>> around font issues, but knowing what to look for is unimaginable to me.
I
>> mean, would we have some kind of list with all the publishers and what
>> fonts and text attributes they use for everything? Otherwise, how would
>> anyone figure something like that out. Also, as Jake pointed out, OCR
>> tends to lose font information or get it wrong quite often. Even with
the
>> book in hand, how would a blind person figure that out without sighted
>> assistance? I would be willing to use a simple markup system, but if I
>> have to learn html and spend hours on agonizing over ethereal font
>> information count me out!
>> Kellie
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