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- From: "Pratik patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 05:08:21 -0400
Monica,
You are absolutely right in suggesting that Notes at the bottoms of the
pages are a bit difficult to handle with serialized speech. The DAISY
format is designed to handle just this kind of fromatted material. In
theory--and let me say again "in theory"--DAISY books are capable of marking
up structural text such as foot notes, end notes, side bars, sections,
headings, graphics, etc. Then, the user would use his/her favorite reading
program to parse the various elements as she wishes. So, for example, one
user might wish to have properly marked up foot notes read right after they
occur in the original text. Another user may choose to have these notes
read at the end of the text. Neither DAISY markup tools nor the users'
reading programs are suphisticated enough to provide sufficient flexibility
at this time. They are coming soon though.
Pratik
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Cortada
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 9:27 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Footnotes and Superscripted Notes
I'm back to wrestling with the book with notes at the bottom of the
page indicated with asterists and superscript numerals. Although an exact
replica of the text may be comprehensible when translated to .brf, things
can sound pretty bizzarre in audio. I think Kurzweil ignores the asterist.
Even when there is a numeral, there's nothing that says why it's there.
Suddenly in the middle of a sentence is a note that pertains to a statement
earlier on the page. The Anne Perry book I recently scanned had several
asterists referring a statement to another book in the series. Since the
note came at the end of the page and not at the point of the asterist, the
note was out of context and sounded like garbled text.
Is the problem of out of context footnotes an inherent limitation of
the linear nature of streaming text to audio? I wonder what the audio book
publishers do with footnotes. Maybe they don't go there.
Monica in Maryland
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