[duxuser] Re: SGML/ICADD files from APH Repository
- From: "Lloyd G. Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 09:32:08 -0400
Actually, there is a NISO/Daisy importer and template in 10.3, but the
style mappings are probably not what people are accustomed to.
At 09:17 AM 9/5/02 +0100, you wrote:
>If the files are genuine SGML,
>its easy to convert them to XML, then to some
>tagset that Joe can import easily.
>
>Perhaps you could mail me a test file, I'll do a transform
>and send it back?
>
>Joe (S), what XML tagset is currently supported on 10.3 please?
>I don't think DAISY came in till 10.4 did it?
> Either way, HTML would come in to dux 10.3 easily enough?
>
>HTH DaveP
>
>
>
>
>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
>
>
Braille is the solution to the digital divide.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <lras@xxxxxxx>
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