[bksvol-discuss] Re: question: Re: page breaks
- From: Pam Quinn <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:32:44 -0600
I think that's a wonderful solution. There has only been one person
who is apparently not resourceful enough to find alternatives for
navigating books within his own collection. So I say, let the majority
rule.
Pam
>Can't daisy books without page breaks be read through their XML file? What
>about HTML? I know that the unpack tool gives an option for creating an html
>file of the book. Then, that file can be easily turned into other formats
>such as plain text, doc, or rtf. Those should be a bit more easily navigated
>without bage breaks I would think. Perhaps we could put an indicator on the
>books that do not have page breaks, rather than just rejecting them out-right.
> This way an individual would have notice before downloading a book.
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>What do you think guys?
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>Allison H.
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>From: Guido Corona
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>Sorry, books without page breaks must be rejected, because from a Daisy
>point of view--Daisy being the primary Bookshare format-- they are virtually
>unnavigable.
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>Thanks,
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>Guido
>Guido Dante Corona
>IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
>IBM Research,
>Phone: (512) 838-9735
>Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
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>I wouldn't reject it. If it doesn't have page breaks, administration
>will find out and decide what to do. It might be that it has. I can
>tell if I use the arrow keys with window eyes because it says antsie
>twelve where the page break appears. But apparently some programs
>don't see them and some screen readers don't announnce them. From what
>I'm hearing, I could look at a text file in notepad and see that there
>were page breaks, but some people using a different editor might look
>at the same text file and not see the page breaks. I know from having
>used k1000 that it will tell you how many pages are in a file if you
>go into properties.
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>Anyway, I would finish validating it and see what happens since it
>doesn't sound like the issue is totally settled yet.
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>Pam
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>>ok,
>>I have a question reguarding this issue. I'm validating Riptide by Catherine
>>Coulter. the scanning is more than good but there do not appear to be
>>pagebreaks though most of the numbers appear. It's a txt fileDo I reject it?
>> How does that work? the book is a great Mystery and i'm on chapter 5 by the
>>way.
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