[bookport] Re: Difference between navigating in Daisy and .brf formats
- From: Robert Carter <r-carter@xxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:59:33 -0500
Hi Judy,
The difference between daisy and dot brf is all about markup. It
is likely that most novels on bookshare do not have much daisy
markup to indicate chapters and pages and subsections. If,
however, you download both the daisy version and brf version of
the New York Times, you will see that the daisy version will
allow you to jump from section to section and from article to
article within a given section. The brf format does not have
this level of markup.
Robert Carter
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Wilkinson <jwilkins@xxxxxxxxx
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:35:54 -0400
Subject: [bookport] Difference between navigating in Daisy and
.brf formats
I've had my bookport for a couple of years now and almost since
day
1, I've downloaded .brf files from NLS and Bookshare and read
them
happily. But lately, I've heard so much from those using Daisy,
I
thought I'd download a Daisy version of a book from Bookshare. I
read
it but found no difference from reading the .brf version. People
have
been saying "Oh you'll love using Daisy!" I've also received .txt
versions of the New Yorker and BookWorld thanks to Will Smith,
and
with the A+D and C_F commands, I can move from article to article
as
"next article" is the text by default in the options menu on the
Bookport software.
Could someone please answer this simple basic question: what is
the
difference between reading and navigating between daisy and .brf
or
..txt files? I realize I'm missing something here. So I'd love
to know
why Daisy is better.
Judy Wilkinson
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