Correct spelling daisy It stands for: Digital Accessible Information SYstem Lori C. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:20 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates Hi Mayrie, I've seen very few books in the collection that have meaningful daisy navigational schemas. Mostly it's nonexistent, but when it is there it often seems to be haphazard. Obviously, when publishers put different font sizes in a book they don't have daisy navigation in mind. By the way, what's the correct spelling of daisy? Does anyone know what it stands for? When I think of daisy it reminds me of the last scene with HAL in the movie 2001, a space odyssey. Now that'll take a real Clarke aficionado to know what I'm talking about. Bob (with another stream-of-consciousness message) "A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." ----- Original Message ----- From: Mayrie ReNae To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:58 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates Hi Bob, It's true that picture descriptions are lost in publisher quality books and that is truly grievous. However, chapter headings are still enlarged in the publisher quality books so that they appear as headings in daisy navigation. Mayrie ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:42 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates Jamie brings up a good point. However, I think this brings up another question, how literal should we take this? One thing I do when I proof a book is to change the font size for chapter headings so that they are navigable in a daisy format, which, in my opinion, improves the book for bookshare users. Also, what about all those books for pre-school kids with wonderful picture descriptions. In my opinion, again, these are improvements to the bookshare collection rather than changes to the publisher's intent. All these changes would be abolished if a book of publisher quality came along to replace them. Bob "A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Yates, CPhT To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:05 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates Kim, we are not allowed to clean up typographical errors in books either. If it is in the print book wrong, it has to be in the Bookshare file wrong, too. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Miss Julia Hits the Road by Ann B. Ross See everything I've read this year at: www.michrxtech.com/books.html