[bksvol-discuss] Re: submitting books as text files
- From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:34:02 -0400
Sarah,
Many thanks for those suggestions. So, besides the quotes, apostrophes, and
assorted dashes, are there any other things I need to be aware of changing
if I save directly to .rtf from Openbook?
Scott
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From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitting books as text files
Saving as RTF is the best thing you can do for potential validators.
Saving as a TXT file is likely to get page breaks lost or messed up, so it
is best not to risk it.
If you wouldn't mind fixing the problem of strange quotes and apostrophes
it would be nice. Save your book in RTF directly from Open Book. An Open
Book user will have to supply direction for doing that if you have
problems. Once you have the RTF file you can Open that in Word and
replace the strange punctuation. Your screen read may not tell you that
the quotes are close quotes and that the apostrophes are single quotes,
but I guarantee they are. Find the first quotation mark in your file and
select it. Hit Control-H and paste it in the find box. Tab once and type
a quotation mark in the replace box. I believe Alt-A is replace all.
Next repeat the procedure, but this time find, select, and copy an
apostrophe or single quote from your file and replace with a typed
apostrophe.
You could also replace em-dashes with two of the dashes you can type from
your keyboard. All the replacing is to make your file bookshare
conversion tool friendly. To be nice to braille readers I replace all
elipsies with spaces between the dots with three periods in a row without
spaces, which is supposedly a technical error, but that is what works for
braille translation. The changes you make are really up to you. I am
only saying what makes both the DAISY and braille files made by bookshare
come out very readable.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 8:50 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitting books as text files
Hi there,
Thanks for the advice. Actually, I generally had been validating my own
submissions, so the need to change format wasn't there.
Well then, here's the next question, if I submit as rtf instead, should I
use the same format from openbook? Or would it be better to save as text,
then open the text file in ms word, and save that as an rtf file?
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:44 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitting books as text files
Hi, Scott! Have you been submitting your books in the RTF format? If
so, you may want to continue with that, rather than switching to text,
especially since RTF is the format of choice for Bookshare. Since
WordPad comes with Windows, RTF is also widely available for validating.
However, to answer your original question, your idea of the process is
correct. <Smile> Thanks for your work!
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 8:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] submitting books as text files
Hi folks,
I scan books using Openbook, and I would like to submit them as text
files, so that they will be available to a larger group of people for
validation. So, what I want to confirm is the procedure I should take.
What I plan to do is:
1. Scan the book in openbook.
2. Keep a copy in the openbook .ark format.
3. Save an additional copy as a text file to be submitted to Bookshare.
It seems simple enough, but I wanted to check with the people in the
know to find out if there is anything else I need to do to ensure the
best transfer of the book from myself to the validator.
Thanks,
Scott
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