Nicely done, Pratik and Kellie. Cindy R --- Pratik Patel <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm sure all of you remember the lovely debate and > the apparent discovery > that print page numbers were being omited from > braille copies of Bookshare > books. I promised to investigate. Thanks to all of > you who sent me pages > from books that you either submitted or recently > validated. And, even > bigger thanks to Kellie Hartman, who is conducting > her own independent > investigation so that we can verify my findings. > > and, the drum role please! > > The results say, no panic necessary. All books that > contained properly > formatted page numbers when validated do have > necessary print page numbers > associated with them when converted to braille. > Bookshare's tools are not > misbehaving as previously assumed. I had the > opportunity to check ten > books-some provided by you, some randomly picked > from the recently approved > books list. I'm happy to report that none of these > books had a problem. > > As Kellie and I suspected, the culprid appears to be > Kurzweil 1000, which > sucks these page numbers. So those of you who are > using Kurzweil 1000 to > back translate Bookshare braille books, must keep in > mind that Kurzweil 1000 > does not properly back translate the series of dot > 3, 6 characters followed > by # sign and the page number. In fact, it seems to > gobble up that portion > of the page. Those of you using note takers to read > the braille files > should find no problems. > > I hope this clears up a lot of the confusion from > last week. I'm happy to > answer any questions you might have on this. > > Regards, > > Pratik > > __________________________________________________ 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.