Hi.
I'm willing to do this but I'd also prefer that the markings make
some sort of sense so I can remember them.
It would also be helpful if this info could be added to the volunteers manual.
Christina
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrie Karnos" <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bookshare Vol Group" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:10 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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