[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
Re: [docbook] braille and audio
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 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Should xmllint successfully validate docbook 5 containing XIncludes?
Have you tried using the namespace declaration in your document? Something like this: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook' xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink' xmlns:mathml=http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/dtd/mathml2.dtd; version=5.0 xml:lang=en titleTitle of your document/title This should replace the entity declaration and still let your mathml validate. HTH, Carlos On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Jon Leech j...@alumni.caltech.edu wrote: On 10/28/2013 10:31 PM, Bob Stayton wrote: The short answer is no, xmllint does not successfully validate DocBook 5 documents that are in fact valid. I normally use Jing to validate DocBook 5. I've not seen it hang like you have. Thanks, that's good to know going forward. It turns out that stripping the !DOCTYPE refentry [ !ENTITY % mathml PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD MathML 2.0//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/**dtd/mathml2.dtdhttp://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/dtd/mathml2.dtd %mathml; ] prolog from my documents will prevent jing from hanging. Unfortunately it will also prevent some of them from validating, since they use MathML entities like lfloor; . I filed a bug on the jing project page to ask about this but perhaps I'm missing some other way to be able to use these entities that would work around this issue? Jon Leech --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@**lists.oasis-open.orgdocbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-**open.orgdocbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
[docbook-apps] Indexes in mobi
I'm running into something strange with indexes when I convert from epub to mobi using kindlegen. I use the epub3 transform and set kindle.extensions=1, then use kindlegen to get a .mobi file. The index comes out fine for ePub, but for .mobi, some devices (Paperwhite and Kindle Fire on the kindle previewer) throw away all indentation so there is no distinction between primary and secondary terms, though they do leave an extra vertical space between a primary and its secondaries. And some (Kindle DX on the previewer and Kindle on iPhone) seemingly randomly indent (or don't indent) primary and secondary terms, and also frequently lose the line break when a primary term without secondaries precedes another primary (unless the first primary is immediately after a letter heading). epub looks great on iOS, though I haven't tried it anywhere else. Has anyone run into this, and has anyone figured out how to solve the problem? I've been playing around with CSS to no avail, but I'm reluctant to do any major surgery in the index if others have solved the problem. Thanks, Dick Hamilton --- XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net hamil...@xmlpress.net - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
