[bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with tables.

  • From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:10:32 -0600

Thanks.
And I won't attack you or anything if you don't get to it, because I
understand how validating time miscalculations tend to occur. :-)

Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 3:54 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with tables.


> Hi Sarah,
>
> That time is upon us.
> Bookshare accepts daisy books now, and when they are resubmitted after
> validation, they are one of the exceptions as they need to be re-uploaded
> as daisy.
>   I know this as I downloaded the only daisy book on the list only to find
> it was actually a doc file, and I couldn't accept it as the system wanted
a
> daisy file in return.
> Fortunately, the submitter corrected the problem and submitted the book as
> a doc file which I was able to accept, but I haven't gotten around yet to
> rejecting the daisy version.
> I've had my eye on your book, but I have a couple of others ahead of it,
> but if it is still there in a day or so I'll grab it.
>
> Dave
>
> At 04:30 PM 2/7/2005, you wrote:
> >I would love to have my submission of The Code Book validated so I could
> >examine the daisy results of the tables I painstakingly fixed with my
> >husband's assistence.  If I find that grabbing a table from the book and
> >putting it in Word, followed by setting the column and row titles using
the
> >bookmarking method described in the JAWS 6.0 update documentation, does
not
> >make it easily readable, and reading it from the HTML file that can be
> >created by the bookshare unpack tool also doesn't work well, then I will
> >know not to waste any effort on such things until bookshare can accept
daisy
> >files directly, and I learn how to submit the perfect daisy file, and
what
> >is the best that can be done for the BRF copy if you don't have or know
how
> >to use the expensive transcriber's programs. :-)
> >
> >Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> >http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
>
>


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