Thank you Pratik for the clarification. For page numbers your understanding coincides with my own. That is why it is important for us to facilitate the work of the header/footer processor by isolating page numbers on their own lines preceeded and followed by blank lines, and remove any surrounding junk, rather than burying them in a line containing other bodytext. I still need more info about what's happening to chapter headings right now, and how we should normalize them in view of any future upgrade to the processor. G. Guido Dante Corona IBM Research, Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC) Austin Tx. Phone: 512. 838. 9735. Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able ". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise." [David Poyer, The Command] "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/21/2008 08:59 AM Please respond to bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Pagination, Book share files, Braille, and k1k (Chapter headings too) Hi All, A lot of questions have been raised in the last few days regarding how Bookshare handles pagination and how programs such as Kurzweil 1000 handle pagination that come through Bookshare files. Here are a few things you should know. Bookshare DAISY and Pagination While processing the RTF files that are validated by volunteers, the Bookshare tools take page number from either the top or bottoms of pages, remove them, and place them in the DAISY navigation structure. This enables users to use the navigation features of the DAISY reader to move to them. This is done so that navigation features can be separated form the actual book content. According to the DAISY specification, this is how it should be done. The idea is that navigation features should be supported by the "user agent." Here the term user agent is used to designate any software or device that provides the user the ability to view the DAISY document. This user agent should decide how to process various navigation features that are supported by the file. In Bookshare's case, this is how it is handled. And programs such as Kurzweil 1000 must decide how to determine how to navigate between pages or to pages. As many of you have learned, this navigation does not happen as consistently as it should. Technically, the bookmark feature (ctrl+r) does provide a way to go from page to page. However, in many books, this does not work as well. This is not a concern that bookshare can address. It is more a Kurzweil 1000 issue and Kesy must address this on their end. Looking at many DAISY book structures, Bookshare does, at least, seem to handle page numbering well. (Rise and Fall might be a different case. I have yet to do some checks on this book.) Bookshare and Braille About a year and a half ago, bookshare engineers made some significant changes to the Braille translation codes that allow print page numbering to be included in the BRF file. This functionality was tested and should be included in every book that had page numbers in the source RTF validated by the volunteer. If you are finding that page numbers are not a part of the BRF when you use Kurzweil 1000, again, this is more a Kurzweil 1000 issue than Bookshare. In doing the original testing, I do seem to recall some troubles with Kurzweil 1000 not hsowing page numbers. However Braille note or Pacmate should behave consistently. My recent tests on both of those platforms does bear out this conclusion. I also notice that Evan also confirmed this with a PacMate. Bookshare, Chapter headings, and DAISY. Unless bookshare has been conducting some experiments that I am not aware of, bookshare does not remove chapter numbers for navigation purposes. The stripper does, unfortunately, have a bad habit of removing chapter headings from the source. This is not intentional and needs to be corrected. That is why many people have come up with special techniques to deal with the recalcitrant stripper. I hope this has been somewhat useful after the many questions and responses. Questions are welcome. Regards, Pratik To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.