To add to this, I'd throw in a joke here. Daisy is not synonymous with a flower, LOL! At least in technology terms it isn't. On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:47:01 -0500, "Sarah Cranston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Sorry if this has already been dealt with, I've got a truly remarkable > amount of messages from this very list, and am seriously behind, but here > goes anyway. Daisy is not a type of book. Daisy is not a text file, it > is not an audio book, and it is not a Braille book. Daisy is a method of > placing marks throughout a book, no matter what format that book is in. > These marks can include, but are not limited to, chapter headings, > section headings, subsection headings, parts, (as in part one, part two, > etc), and page numbers. With Daisy, for instance, a student can open > his/her textbooks and go immediately to the exact section, chapter, and > page all the sighted students have flipped to in their print copies of > the same book. The student can use a Daisy text file, a Daisy talking > book, or a Daisy book that includes both text and narrated audio. > > > Daisy can be useful in other ways, such as quickly jumping from section > to section and article to article in a newspaper. > > So, to clear up a couple of blatantly untrue statements: Daisy is NOT > synonymous with "talking book" or "audio book," so a deaf-blind person is > perfectly capable of using Daisy. Also, Daisy is NOT synonymous with > "straight text" or "plain text". The reason Daisy books are larger than > the same book in plain text is because it incorporates all those useful > place markers. > > I hope this has helped to clear things up. > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > -- Christopher Hallsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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