[bksvol-discuss] Re: the apple tree and other stories
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:19:25 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Sarah. That is informative and interesting. Is
Daisy text then used more by people who are legally
blind but perhaps not totally blind? Then reading
Eats, Shoots wouldn't be a problem but would be fun.
Cindy
--- Sarah Van Oosterwijck
<curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 12:56 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: the apple tree and
> other stories
>
>
> > 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
> >
> > -- talmage@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> 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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