[bksvol-discuss] Re: using machines for what they were meant to do
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:41:53 -0400
Hi all,
Jake, interesting post and informative. Consider me one of those who
would be happy to mark up books. As one who has spent the last two
weeks writing HTML, learning a few more mark-up tags shouldn't be too
difficult. Hey, write up a cheat-sheet, and we're good to go.
I think adding a slash to an ending tag makes a lot of sense. It's a
standardized code that everyone understands, and it really, really
isn't that difficult, folks.
Tags, I actually love tags, come in pairs. The first tag, <h1> for
example, says, "Computer, blow up your font and bold it and make this a
heading, everything I type from here on should be like this." The
</h1> tag, tells the computer, "OK, I'm done writing this heading, go
back to normal text." The <p> tag says paragraph, keep writing until
you see the end of the paragraph, the </p> If you want to bold
something or underline something, you do it with tags, <b> </b> <u>
</u>. It's the same as doing a ctrl-b or ctrl-u in Word, but instead
of the instructions being hidden, you can see them and change them.
I actually love HTML because I have complete control over my document,
I mean complete control. I can see where my instructions are. I don't
have to pray that the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get" editor is
doing what I told it to do. I know it is, because I can see the tags I
put there. It's a power trip, I know it is, but what can I say. I
like having power over The Word. <smiling>
So, making tags for bookshare would be a snap if we agreed to make them
like HTML. I understand HTML. It makes sense.
Just a bit of trivia for your reading pleasure. Printers use a mark-up
language called LaTex. It's like XML or HTML. So, perhaps if we used
coding that was like HTML, the publisher quality books would be
converted to braille more easily? <smiling> I suspect that putting
LaTex books into DAISY is easier than some other things. Don't worry,
folks, you don't have to learn either HTML or LaTex. I'm just offering
trivia for a Thursday morning.
Ann P.
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