With some free tools from DAISY Consortium developers it only takes a few mouse clicks to make the conversion. DAISY uses XML to manage rich media and synchronize audio files with text. I limited the range of styles in use, using only three levels of headings, two paragraph styles for examples and rules summaries, and the basic body text. I didn’t even need to set up any special headings, just the ones listed in the Word Styles menu.
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The good news is that all we need for that is headings.Īs I was editing Tears I had an eye toward this and made sure to use a series of headings and to nest them properly. It’s much better to be able to quickly move through the book by chapters or sections. The table of contents and index might let you know where an important subject can be found but you need to flip back and forth, find the number and then navigate by pages. Page numbers are not only way to get around in a book. That’s okay because the end product will be in a format with easy controls to alter the font and size of the text. I inserted breaks as needed and also found that I had to resize the text to make some pages fit.
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DOC file draft of the book alongside approved PDF draft and compared the page breaks between them. If a reader wants to refer his friends to something in their PDF or paper copy of the book the page numbers should match up as close as possible. Step 1 – Text Layout Matchingīecause I’m publishing Tears in as a paper book and PDF as well I want to make sure that the page layout aligns with the audiobook version. įor this first entry I’ll explain getting the book text from Word DOC to DAISY friendly XML.
If you want to know more about the basics of DAISY formats and initiatives, visit the homepage of the DAISY Consortium. Once it’s done I’ll have DAISY compatible versions of the raw text for Text-To-Speech reader software, an ePub book, and a fully narrated audio-book for DAISY and ePub 3.0 rich media playback. In this series of posts I’ll be posting the step-by-step process of creating the DAISY Digital Talking Book version of Tears of a Machine.
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