I'm going to do what someone has suggested and check some books I have
submitted and some I have validated to see how they came out in the end. I
have done this in the past, but what I do to books has changed slightly so
I think it is good to check again. Claims of page number tags being
missing for daisy files has concerned me as well.
My first examination is of Darwin's Black Box, which was my last
non-fiction submission to enter the collection. I found some good things
and some bad things, but I have no theories for the cause of either. The
good thing is that chapter headings were present, even though I saw no
reason for them to have remained based on my original formatting. I am
glad they did. Page breaks must have remained correct also, because once I
set the correct starting page in Kurzweil I could use the table of contents
to find any chapter I wanted.
The bad thing is that the page numbers were not retained either in the text
or in the bookmarks Kurzweil uses to show the DAISY tag page numbers. That
totally confuses me, because the page number was present in the top left
corner of every page in the original file I submitted. If it couldn't find
those page numbers I really don't know how it could find any. I sure have
had books with correctly made DAISY page tags, too, so don't tell me the
whole system never works. Has something gone wrong lately? Does it
require not only the page number but some other header garbage to be
present at the tops of pages in order to capture them?
I want the page numbers to be there, but I won't resubmit just to find the
same thing has happened again. Besides I know the validator did more work
and very good work, so I wouldn't want my copy up instead of her's.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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