Re: Bookshare.org programming content was Re: Windows Programming
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 01:29:54 -0500
I am under contract with Benetech to improve the conversion from Docbook
to Daisy. Since I use a lot of the O'Reilly books from Bookshare, you
can be sure that I'll do some real upgrading!
John
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:41:42PM -0700, Jennifer Sutton wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Perhaps there are some on the list who can provide current
> information about improvements to Bookshare.org's production of O'Reillys.
>
> While employed at Benetech, I heard plenty of complaints about the
> O'Reilly content from programmers. While the O'Reillys were of
> high-quality, in terms of text (since they came from very well-formed
> XML, indeed), the way BSO transformed them left things to be desired
> when it came to the spacial representation of coding and the
> transformation of some code examples. Perhaps Python might be an
> especially good example of code that might result in problems when
> transformed. I hope those issues have been resolved by now. I
> certainly documented them almost a year ago.
>
> Maybe there are not many languages where spaces matter, but when they
> matter, I gather that they really do.
>
> Perhaps more and better O'Reillys are being posted now, or there are
> plans to reprocess the others on the site; I don't know; I am not a
> subscriber to Bookshare.org.
>
> Jennifer
>
> At 03:39 PM 4/3/2008, you wrote:
> >Almost all bookshare books on programming are of high quality.
> >Anything from O'Rially will be good quality since they provide the
> >books streight from there manuscripts there not scanned in.
> >Jennifer Sutton wrote:
> >>Hi:
> >>
> >>Yes, certainly, Bookshare.org has such books that would go over
> >>Windows programming concepts.
> >>
> >>But given that this person will be new to the world of Windows
> >>programming, and given that Bookshare.org's books are inconsistent
> >>in terms of how they're scanned and produced, especially when it
> >>comes to representations of code, it might be especially helpful if
> >>those familiar with these books would offer some of the cleanest
> >>examples from this source of which you're aware.
> >>
> >>Best,
> >>Jennifer
>
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