[duxuser] SGML/ICADD files from APH Repository

  • From: Steven Wasserman <swasserman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:03:17 -0500

Hi listers,

We are having A LOT of problems importing textbooks from the APH File
Repository into Duxbury 10.3. The files are in SGML/ICADD format which is
supposed to "enable the preparation of texts for near-automatic conversion
to Grade 2 Braille" <ROFL>. The conversion is anything but near-automatic.
Many tags are translated to non-existent Duxbury style codes, and basically
the formatting is a mess. I've had to do extensive search and replaces to
get them to resemble anything anyone would want to read in braille.

Does anybody out there have any experience with these files? Any
suggestions? Are we missing something?

Thanks,
Steven Wasserman
Technology Coordinator
Minnesota State Academy for the Blind
 

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