Thanks Jake for the definitive answer! Please tell me if I'm understanding you correctly, if I use the Microsoft Word table function and create new tables it will save as a table? Then if I have blank cells they will read as blank cells and alignment will be maintained? Hmmm... Is that what most validators generally do? Or do validators hope that they won't encounter tables in the books they're validating? <smile> Devorah ________________________________ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jake Brownell Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:36 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: tables in Bookshare books plus another question Hi Devorah, Tables done with spaces will be somewhat "compressed" in that vertically nothing will align. Tabs are stripped from the files completely because DAISY as an XML standard doesn't understand a tab. Tables created as actual tables are converted to tables in DAISY. Regards, Jake Jake Brownell QA Engineer, Bookshare.org jake.b@xxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Devorah Greenstein <mailto:DGreenstein@xxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:04 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] tables in Bookshare books plus another question What is the protocol for tables? I've got quite a few in the book I'm validating - I'm using a library copy of the printed book because the scanned version is all goofed up, as I would expect. But what I'm doing is using tab stops and recreating a table in tabular form. Will this work for folks? If not, what should I be doing? She says, halfway through the book and hadn't thought of asking before now! Also, I'm wondering what screen readers will do with this quote from an 18th century midwife. Can someone reassure me that it is decipherable? 17 F At ditoes & Mr Poores. Birth 47th a daughter. At Capt Meloys allso Rainy. I was Calld from Mr Parkers at 2 hour morn to Mr Poores. Doct Page was Calld before my arival. I Extracted the Child, a dagt. He Chose to Close the Loin. I returnd home at 8 hour morning. Receivd 6/ as a reward. Mr Ballard & Ephm attend worship, Dolly & Sally aftern. Charls and John Coks supt here. I was calld to Capt meloys at 11 hour Evening. Raind. Birth Mr Poores daughter X X ________________________________ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.10/1367 - Release Date: 4/9/2008 7:10 AM