A DAISY file can be either text or audio, but bookshare DAISY files only
contain text. The letters of the name stand for Digital Accessible
Information System. What makes them different from other file formats is
that they can have extra mark up in them to allow navigation by units like
page, chapter, section, ETC. They can have a table of contents that links
you to parts of the document, or files with audio and text can be linked so
that a person could search the text version and find a specific place in
the audio. Unfortunately almost none of the formats capabilities are
currently used.
Out of the file types you are likely to know about, DAISY files are most
closely related to HTML documents. They actually enclude XML, which stands
for Extensible Markup Language.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Instructor http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
Good luck, Dave. BTW, what is Daisy? I know it's an alternate way of reading, but I've never asked before. I gather it's not Braille; is it audio? THe trouble with eats, shoots is that there's no way to tell the difference between proper and improper ways of using the apostrophe (though that section is really funny --the author writes with wonderful humor) unless the punctuationis turned on, which I would think is relaly annoying -- or to hve a sighted friend or spouse read it aloud.
Cindy
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Hi Cindy,
Not too teacherish, but you have caused me to want to re-read the copy of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," that you cleaned up. In particular, I wanted to go over the sections on hyphens and apostrophes again. This time I even downloaded the Daisy version, so in converting it to TXT I wouldn't introduce the conversion errors that I had last time when I back translated from BRF. Thanks for your efforts in cleaning up that one.
Dave
At 01:57 AM 6/24/2005, you wrote: >Yes, hyphens shold be eliminated, ,even when they are >at the end of a sentence or the end of a page. Close >up the word and put it on one lineor page or the >other. EM dashes -- wich separate phrases, should be >reatined, however. > >Some compound words, however, that are now put >together used to be hyphenated, and they should remain >hyphenated. An example might be place-cards insread >of placecards, or make-up (cosmetics) instead of >makeup. And, of course, compund words when they are >adjectives instead of by themselves ae hyphenated, >e.g., sixteen-ton truck. > >I'm afraid my examples aren't very good -- maybe >make-up is always hyphenated, but you get the idea. >Where i owuld be confusing to have the words >together, because they voice reader might read them >incorrectly, e.g., reestablish instead of >re-establish, a hyphen is helpful. > >I hope I don't sound too "teacherish". > >Cindy
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