[bksvol-discuss] Re: pre-marking RTF files
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:04:39 -0400
I am also in favor of marking up books this way, although I don't think the
responsibility should be exclusively on the validator.
I primarily scan and I read every page of the books I submit. Marking up the
book as I scan would be cake--as long as we can agree on a standard for
doing it.
Deborah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Belville" <lisab12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:15 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: pre-marking RTF files
Hi, Carrie.
I think this is a good idea, and I wouldn't mind doing it, provided the
codes are uniform for specific sections of the book..
The only issues would be yet more learning for those new to validating and
new to computers.
It will also reinforce why validators need to read every page of a book they
validate. I'm still downloading books marked excellent that have headers
and areas of garbled text.
So, while having a system in place to mark specific sections in a book is a
good one, it's only going to work as well as the validator.
Lisa
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Lisa Belville
lisab12@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: Bookshare Vol Group
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:10 AM
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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