Re: Reading daisy books.

[Thomas Ward <slingshooter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, how am I to know one daisy book from another? If one is in daisy 2 or 
daisy 3?
This is my first real brush with daisy books, and I'm trying to locate 
something that can read them.
If I can't find something like that I'll probably have to write my own 
daisy reader.
That is once I mknow ore about the daisy format itself.


On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jason White wrote:

> Thomas Ward writes:
>  > 
>  > What am I doing wrong? How do I read daisy books with 
>  > emacspeak?
> 
> In the first place, the book must conform to the Daisy/NISO 3.0
> standard; Emacspeak doesn't support the older Daisy 2.0 specification
> because it isn't XML-based, thus harder to implement. T.V. Raman is on
> record as having said that he doesn't think much of Daisy 2.0, and on
> that point I agree with him - version 3.0 is in my view a well
> designed XML language that borrows appropriately from other standards
> while adding just the features which the Daisy technical committee
> thought necessary.
> 
> So, once you have a version 3.0-compliant book (of which I don't
> possess any examples) you may be able to read it in Emacspeak, though
> I am not sure whether the Emacspeak Daisy player is fully up to date
> as regards the final 3.0 specification.
> 
> I don't have any Daisy books, and for that reason I have not played
> with the Emacspeak Daisy player.
> 
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