-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREKAAYFAk3Cz0cACgkQNxrFv6BK4xMvkwCg7IZ73NwobnNJ8a9pDEUe0pC0 LxkAn2zUgMpUrmndyzPW9l69Uq1tgNf6 =SbEv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
