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a few questions about Save as daisy

Submitted by andysoft on Mon, 2009-11-30 08:18

Save as DAISY Microsoft

Hello everyone. I'm posting here because, well the subject says it all. I have some questions about Save as daisy add-in for Microsoft world. I used it to produce the first daisy book for distribution, and I'm feeling very sattisfied. these open source tools are really professional. But OK, here I go with my questions. first, the pages of the book are being indicated by the narrator in the book. now, it is possible to disable this? that's because at the moment I'm making books in spanish, so the narrator says page uno instead of pagina 1 or page one in english. or if there's any way to change it, then please tell me it. My other question is, how can I transform these books produced in daisy 3 into daisy 2? I wonder if I can do this because, I think my book will not be read by some older daisy players. can I use the pipeline to do this? of course, I want to have another version of my book in daisy 3, having a coppy of it. now my last question is, what stiles I have to use to create sub sections? I want to organize my book in sub sections also. that's all, and again your help would be very apreciated. Sincerely, Andres felipe Pulgarin. Andysoft Project http://www.andysoft.es.tl

Dear Andres, Here are some

Submitted by RDeltour on Tue, 2009-12-01 08:33.

Dear Andres, Here are some answers to your questions: 1. Page announcements As you noticed the Narrator script of the Pipeline, used internally by the "Save as DAISY" AddIn, identifies particular elements in the DTBook and generates announcements before sending the text to the TTS. These transformations can occur at different stages during the Narrator workflow. It is possible to customize it, although it is fairly technical and involves the manual edition of internal configuration files of the transformers (located in the "transformers" directory of the Pipeline Lite). For the case of pages, the se_tpb_speechgen2 transformer allows the configuration of a set of XSLT to transform to apply for each TTS engine configured in se_tpb_speechgen2/tts/ttsbuilder.xml. The default TTS configurations notably declare the XSLT located in se_tpb_speechgen2/xslt/transform.xsl. This XSLT adds the "Page" word before the text of all "pagenum" elements, around line 37. For instance you can change the behavior for spanish by adding the following lines: <xsl:when test="lang('es')"> <xsl:text>Pagina </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="current()"/> <xsl:text>. </xsl:text> </xsl:when> 2. DAISY 3 to DAISY 3 conversion: The DAISY Pipeline contains a script that handles this conversion, in "Create or Distribute > DAISY Book > DAISY 3 to DAISY 2.02". Note that this script is tagged as [BETA] because it makes strict assumptions on the form and structure of the input DAISY 3 book, and may not work on any book found in the wild. However, it is guaranteed to work well with the DAISY 3 books produced by the Pipeline or the Save as DAISY AddIn. 3. Styles for sub-section Sorry I cannot help for this one. Have you tried with different heading levels ? HTH, Romain.

your information was very helpful!

Submitted by andysoft on Thu, 2009-12-03 06:00.

Hi to you. Thanks for that information.. I followed your instructions and now I'm getting the results that I need. I can understand this technocal language without any problems, since I have some knoledges about HTML and XML. I also have installed the GUI version of daisy pipeline, and the daisy 3 to daisy 2 worcks well. so thanks for your help. now I just want to make a last question. in the Microsoft Word document that I'm using for the production of the book, I can see that the document contains 24 pages, but the daisy book only have one pages. can you tell me please what stiles to use for marcking the pages in the daisy book? Thanks for your great help. Sincerely, Andres felipe Pulgarin

Hi, For the page numbering

Submitted by RDeltour on Thu, 2009-12-03 07:25.

Hi, For the page numbering issue I'm sorry I don't know the Word translation part enough to answer you. It seems however that others had the same problem on the forums: http://www.daisy.org/forums/node/170 http://www.daisy.org/forums/node/137 http://www.daisy.org/forums/node/126 They seem to have worked around the issue by using either automatic page numbering or manual page breaks. HTH, Romain.