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

[Robert Martinengo]

'Garbage in, garbage out' - still says it all.

On Nov 13, 2007 5:42 PM, Berkowitz, Daniel J <djbrky at bu.edu> wrote:


> My vote for best list-serv comment of the year!

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> "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

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> >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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