[bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers and real priorities
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:47:24 -0500
I believe you are right on this score.
Unfortunately, from books that I have read, it appears that before the
braille translator was upgraded in I believe 2006, before I arrived, the
print page numbers were removed and braille page numbers were put in their
place. So there were a lot more pages in the file than there were in the
original print book. After the upgrade, it appears that this is no longer
the case. From the books I have checked that I either submitted or
validated, and from some others that I checked by other means, the brf
versions can have accurate page numbering if the page breaks are there.
I do not know why Dr. Cross is having a problem with Third Reich, but it has
lots of page numbers and at least as far as the first three chapters, they
do correspond to those in the Table of Contents. Actually, I can say that
they correspond accurately up to at least page 631, because the line of
dashes with the number 631 after it is just above the number 631, which is
at the top of that page where Bob said the page numbers were located. So
before deciding that the Bookshare processing tools are at fault, it would
be a good idea to make sure that the problem is not related to how people
are reading the files. Although, at the moment I have no idea how it could
happen that the brf file would have accurate page numbers on one device and
not on another.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 3:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] page numbers and real priorities
I have been validating since late 2002. I have been dilligent about page
numbers, making sure they are there and protecting them. If they are not
showing up in daisy format or braille format this ought to be a priority of
bookshare engineering.
I attended last tuesday's discussion of engineering ideas for the future.
Page numbering is more important than any future ideas brought up at that
meeting as far as I am concerned. I do not know the status of print page
numbers in books in the general collection for sure so please take that
lack of knowledge into account. Accurate page numbering is vital as has
been discussed over and over again on this list. They are part of
accuracy. Accuracy is more important than interesting ideas about searches
or toolbars or social sites. Without accuracy, the product the user gets
will be inferior or unuseable. Let's think about real priorities.
E.
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