Evariste, you may want to contact the people at Bookshare.org ( http://benetech.org/our-programs/literacy/bookshare/), a part of the Benetech social entrepreneur organization. They make print documents available in a range of formats and I know that their president Jim Fruchterman told me that they love DocBook because when they get content from a publisher tagged to the standard, it is pretty much push button from there.
I don't have any specific contacts but you'll probably get a reply from their main website contact. They are friendly folks. /chet On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Evariste Galois <evaristegal...@hotmail.com>wrote: > Thank you! That's valuable information. I hope they make progress with the > Apache FOP. I use liblouis all the time, it seems this is what they will be > using as well. > > Evariste > > > From: b...@sagehill.net > > To: evaristegal...@hotmail.com; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org > > Subject: Re: [docbook] braille and audio > > Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:42:53 -0700 > > > > Hi, > > As far as I know, there is no tool to directly convert DocBook XML to > > Braille. However, the DocBook XSL stylesheets can convert DocBook to > HTML > > or PDF, and those can be converted to Braille, according to this website: > > > > http://www.brailletranslator.org/ > > > > Similarly with audio, as this tool seems to be able to convert HTML to > MP3: > > > > http://www.naturalreaders.com/ > > > > I have not used either of these tools, and other people might have other > > recommendations. > > > > FYI, here is a report on an attempt to use Apache FOP to generate > Braille: > > > > http://code.google.com/p/daisy-pipeline/wiki/BrailleFopRenderingReport > > > > Bob Stayton > > Sagehill Enterprises > > b...@sagehill.net > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > From: "evaristegalois" <evaristegal...@hotmail.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:41 AM > > To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org> > > Subject: [docbook] braille and audio > > > > > I have now read several times that the cool thing about docbook is > that it > > > provides output in braille and audio as well, for example here: > > > > > > The advantage is that one SGML source file can generate any type of > > > output: > > > Postscript, PDF, RTF, HTML, QNX Helpviewer, even audio files or > braille. > > > ( > http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-single-sourcingwithdocbook.html > ) > > > > > > I work with blind people in an educational setting and would love to > use > > > docbook to provide content to students. But despite extensive > searching on > > > this forum, the docbook wiki, and duckduckgo (google), I cannot find > > > anything about braille or audio output. I have successfully used > docbook > > > to > > > create html and pdf output. Please tell me how I can convert an sgml > or > > > xml > > > file to brf (braille) or a sound file (any format) using an input file > > > that > > > I've already successfully converted to pdf and html. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > View this message in context: > > > http://docbook.10921.n7.nabble.com/braille-and-audio-tp14972.html > > > Sent from the docbook General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > > > > > > > > > > -- /chet ---------------- Chet Ensign Director of Standards Development and TC Administration OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society http://www.oasis-open.org Primary: +1 973-996-2298 Mobile: +1 201-341-1393 Check your work using the Support Request Submission Checklist at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/47248/tc-admin-submission-checklist.html TC Administration information and support is available at http://www.oasis-open.org/resources/tcadmin Follow OASIS on: LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/OASISopen Twitter: http://twitter.com/OASISopen Facebook: http://facebook.com/oasis.open
