[bksvol-discuss] To Bob, Re: Kurzweil and Daisy
- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:58:20 -0400
Hi Bob. Thanks for reporting on your tests with the chapter headings and
such on the books you've proofread. It was really helpful information. Just
for the sake of information, the version of Kurzweil you are using doesn't
fully support the daisy standard. It does a lot of guessing, and that's why
some files don't function well. I don't want to come off as putting your
software down. Kurzweil 9 is great software. It just doesn't fully implement
navigation for daisy content, and I thought you might want to know about it.
Some of the books you've worked on recently work better in Kurzweil 11, and
your careful work is paying off. Kurzweil 11 does a better job with daisy
files, but it's not perfect either. It does seem to do a better job of
handling chapters, pages, and sections. It still doesn't sync with page
numbers in Bookshare daisy files though. Kurzweil seems to have added more
support with each version of the software, and I hope the release of version
12 will fully support the new daisy 2005 standard and the Bookshare daisy
files based on it.
If you run into trouble with a daisy book in Kurzweil, you may get more
comfortable navigation from using the HTML file. When either the submitter
or proofreader has normalized page numbers and/or protected chapters, moving
around in the HTML file within Kurzweil can be very fast. You can either
rename your xml file with the HTML extension, or you can copy your xml files
to a folder and then rename them so you leave your original daisy files
intact for use with other daisy reading devices. Either way, just make sure
that 2 files called html.css and revstd.css are in the same folder as your
HTML files. The html.css file is in every zip file you get from Bookshare,
so it's easy to find. The other file, called revstd.css is for use with the
older Bookshare titles that you got back when we all used the Bookshare
Unpack program. If you don't find it on your computer, holler and I'll send
it to you. Hmm. Is holler an acceptable tech support term? Maybe I should
put a "holler" button on my web site. Lol! Anyhow, CSS files are like
interpreters. They tell programs how to display HTML or XML files so
everything both looks good and navigates smoothly. You can open your HTML
files without the CSS files, but they don't work as well that way. The new
files from Bookshare will show each chapter in a book as a heading in the
HTML files. That makes getting around much easier.
I hope this helps and makes sense. I'm waiting groggily for my coffee to be
ready.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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