[guispeak] Re: DAISY vs .lit
- From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:44:37 -0500
.lit has no braille support and it makes the book look like paper on the
screen. I think it does have some controlls built in for "accessibility",
but the only thing it offers us is the text to speech plug in. I think they
came up with it more or less to try and close the market. There are
competing formats out there and I think there were a couple more but .lit
has swept them all away. I don't think daisy will go away any time soon.
Johnnie Apple Seed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "guispeak" <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 4:36 PM
Subject: [guispeak] DAISY vs .lit
Why did MS decide to go to the trouble to define .lit in the first place?
I suppose it's money, as always, but that makes the format proprietary and
therefore if accepted will drive out of business all the DAISY reader
producers.
Now maybe that's what Microsoft wants, but I think again that people should
have a choice.
Just my thoughts.
Does .lit provide anything that DAISY doesn't? and aside from braille
support, does it have deficiencies compared to DAISY?
Take care.
--le
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