Jake, If tabs aren't retained, how can we create tables as tables? I'd love to know that. It would save a lot of time. G.Cindy Devorah, I do what Mayrie suggested--I translate the table into sentences, even to the point of repeating a heading if necessary. IF I can find some examples I'll send them to you offlist. G.Cindy --- Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > 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 > ***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.