[Athen] FW: Microsoft Word files to serve as talking books

[Berkowitz, Daniel J]

My vote for best list-serv comment of the year!
 
"the output will be just as much crap as it would be from any other un-edited file"
 
 
 
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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org on behalf of Kelmer, Susan M.
Sent: Tue 11/13/2007 5:12 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] FW: Microsoft Word files to serve as talking books




>Good afternoon, as I understand it what this plugin will

>provide is XMLDocBook conformant content.  The quality of this

>XML content will be dependent on the quality of the structure

>of the document that is "Saved as DAISY".  The second issue is

>when will this be available and what will the quality of it be

>as an opensource endeavor.  You are still going to need

>something to turn it into "readable" DAISY content.


That's exactly what I thought.  Unless the original document is
completely edited down to header styles and etc., the output will be
just as much crap as it would be from any other un-edited file.

-Susan

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