Thanks again, Alison, Hope springs eternal..If only your digital experts could be persuaded to regard, say, the pre AFD presentation of 'the Economist' and 'Observer' as models, they might save time and effort which looks like reinventing the wheel..
Huw.----- Original Message ----- From: "Long, Alison" <Alison.Long@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:03 PM Subject: [ntnm] Re: Email testing I too very much hope that we can get to a place where a selection of choices are available, so yes, continue to hope! Regards Alison -----Original Message----- From: ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Huw Evans Sent: 15 May 2014 13:48 To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ntnm] Re: Email testing Thank you Alison. I'm glad to understand that all users are being consulted and would suggest inviting them to copy their comments to this forum. Consultation is not an optional extra but an essential part of early project planning. I keep puzzling why RNIB, with its expertise and resources, cannot offer a selection of choices which at least includes the efficient, straightforward presentation which was available from tnauk. Dare I continue to hope? Best wishes, Huw.----- Original Message ----- From: "Long, Alison" <Alison.Long@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:17 AM Subject: [ntnm] Re: Email testing Hello Gareth (and Huw) Please accept my apologies, I thought we had included all volunteers in the trial. I will send you a sample email now. I think it's fair to say we have had mixed reactions to file structure, so we are planning to survey all customers on a range of topics, including this one at the end of May. So, please be assured that we do plan to make changes based on your feedback. Regards Alison -----Original Message----- From: ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gareth Williams Sent: 15 May 2014 10:19 To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ntnm] Re: feedback Re: Epub question and txt comment Hi Huw At least you got an email version to try. I volunteered, but didn't get so much as the courtesy of an acknowledgment. Gareth-----Original Message----- From: Huw Evans
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:07 AM To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ntnm] Re: feedback Re: Epub question and txt comment My initial reaction to the sample email received on 12 May (Sunday Times contents links in 13 separate files) is surprise that the files are not labelled and that it should be necessary to open them separately to ascertain their subject matter. I also wish to be able to search for relevant items without having to read the whole contents and, to this end, would wish (based on my very limited experience of IT), to have the whole contents as a single item which could be copied into a Word document. (I append a copy of my message to ICT which has not been responded to). Best wishes, Huw Evans. Appendix: (copy message to ict) Many thanks for the trial email which I have opened. The files contain contents links but I am unable to download the articles referred to. Does this mean that they are no longer available? If so, when did they cease to be available? I shall also be most grateful for any advice on the following points - The newspaper is presented in 13 separate files and I find it a very tedious operation to open (and reopen) each one separately to find out what it contains. Would it be possible to provide more information within the list of 13 foles and/or, present the whole paper as one single file with a single comprehensive contents section? I find that I cannot copy the html version into a word document. I would prefer to be able to do thisas I then find it possible to insert bookmarks and navigate using 'find','go' and so on. It may well be possible for me to deal with a text version in this way and I am wondering wherher you intend trialling one. Best wishes, Huw Evans. Second feedback on 14 may: I refer to the second trial pack received on 14 May and offer the following comments by way of feedback: I prefer the text version to Html because it can be copied into a document which I can then search and bookmark. However, the absence of a contents section is a critically serious flaw making it practically impossible to read a newspaper intelligently and efficiently. (Relevant comments have been made in the ntnm users forum (q.v.): more can and will be said if necessary!) I would advocate having one informative searchable contents section covering the whole newspaper as top priority and also believe it is desirable to have the newspaper itself presented as one item, rather than in 13 separate pieces which are not even labelled. Hoping this helps, Best wishes, Huw Evans. ------- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Roche" <dan.roche@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 10:19 AM Subject: [ntnm] Re: Epub question and txt comment
Hi Roz, And everyone on list, I use the html files and fine them to save if needed and find web site
easy to use. I know the contents page with links on is easy to use as I can tab
around
as well as arrow up and down and just click on article heading that I
want to
read and it goes to the article but if I tab to next article, it
doesn't
tell you the heading until you arrow down a line so title headings on articles would be good. Does anyone know what format the e-mail's will be sent out inn? Dan -----Original Message----- From: ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ntnm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roz Olver Sent: 08 May 2014 09:35 To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ntnm] Re: Epub question and txt comment Hi Ari The ePub format is for use on iPhone and iPad and when opened in an
app
called iBooks, produces a contents page of links (similar to the HTML version) to access the various articles. Hope that helps. Roz Sent from my iPhoneOn 8 May 2014, at 09:19, Ari Damoulakis <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi guys I'm just curious, what's the use of Epub? What I mean is, my daisy player does epub, so I tried a newspaper in that format. I don't know if my player just doesn't, but you can't navigate in any way, I mean, there are no levels, article brakes, nothing. Another interesting thing is the .txt file. In the past, when the files were in .doc, I renamed them .txt, put them on my player and could actually navigate by article, because everytime there was a page-brake the new article started. I'm aware this couldn't be done
on
other players, even though they had page navigation it didn't go by article, but with the booksense its page navigation did. Now unfortunately if one wanted to use txt format it doesn't do that anymore, so thank goodness for the html option. Ari--- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
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