Hi Carrie,
I'd be happy to add the kinds of markers that you talk about. I'd
like though, to see the system be kept as uncomplicated as possible.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:11 AM
To: Bookshare Vol Group
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] pre-marking RTF files
Hi gang,
Okay, here's the situation. In the future, Bookshare wants to add markers
to
RTF files, to pre-mark various parts of books. There would be markers that
mean "this is the start of a chapter", "this is a picture caption", "this
is
an appendix", that sort of thing. Naturally we're wondering if volunteers
could add in these markers to their books. {There are markers in MS Word,
like Heading 1, Heading 2, that could be used, except that not everyone
uses
MS Word, and it's a bit confusing to use them anyway.) The markers in the
RTF files would be used to generate DAISY markers, thus enabling better
navigation of DAISY books.
So the big question to everyone is: is there a markup scheme that everyone
would be willing to put into their RTF files? If Bookshare said that 4
colons in a row means "this is the start of a chapter", how many people
would actually add 4 colons at the start of each chapter?
It would be great if Bookshare could look at a book and figure out where
the
front matter starts and stops, where the text starts and stops, where the
chapters, figures, tables, indices, bibiliographies, etc all start and
stop,
but it's actually a very difficult process. So we're hoping that if we can
get even a few volunteers to add markers to their files, it would make
life
that much easier.
As you can tell, I'm just sending a flag up a flagpole and seeing if
anyone
salutes. What does everyone think of adding markers to RTF files?
Thanks for your many and varied opinions! Carrie
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