Re: [tdf-discuss] Question about proposing the creation of a new format

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On 4/05/11 7:13 AM, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Sorry for my late response; it seems I missed this mail last Friday.

Quite alright, things do get a bit hectic from time to time.

> There is a list of software-based DAISY players in the Wikipedia
> article on DAISY:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAISY_Digital_Talking_Book#Software_players>.
> I try to update it when I find something new.  Hardware DAISY
> players also exist, but they aren't cheap.

Cool.  Thus far I've just listened to the MP3s it generates in a
regular media player, but I'm not a fan of the synthetic voices.  If
there's no alternative, then sure, but I prefer a real audio book
there.  Obviously that tends to be more expensive to produce, though,
unless one is reading one's own work.

> > Appropriate use of styles and headings was already looking like it
> > would be necessary for ePub and other things anyway.  I take it
> > with regards to the language marking you're referring to specifying
> > the language for a document or paragraph (rather than just the
> > default language of LibreOffice), right?
>
> Yes, that is correct.

Cool.

> > Is there a guide somewhere of the right document/page/paragraph
> > attributes needed to generate decent DAISY documents?
>
> I made a presentation about this at FOSDEM in February of this
> year. My slides are on Slideshare at
> <http://www.slideshare.net/aegisproject/fosdem-2011-a11y-authoring-libre-office>
> but I can also send them off-list.

If you could email them to me, that'd be great.

> There is more detailed guidance on accessible authoring (not geared
> at DAISY) from the "Accessible Digital Office Document (ADOD)
> Project": <http://adod.idrc.ocad.ca/>. Their techniques for
> OpenOffice.org also apply to LibreOffice. (And they also cover MS
> Word, Google Docs, Corel WordPerfect, iWork; it's an impressive set
> of documents.)

That's very cool, I've grabbed all the OOo ones and bookmarked the
site for future reference.


Regards,
Ben

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