[bksvol-discuss] Re: pre-marking RTF files
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:49:59 -0400
Hi Carrie, if you made the characters something that I could make using my
braillenote I would be happy to mark them, that is smile if you don't ask for
every single paragraph!
But start of chapters, captions, and the like I would be happy to mark.
Naturally would these marks be removed from the file after uploading.
And another issue, smile, we probably don't want to use typically occuring junk
characters.
Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
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----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: Bookshare Vol Group
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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