Re: [orca-list] improving dbr daisy book reader

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
Daisy-player does not really support the standard, but it does play books.
There was emerson which might be the best one to put energy into.
I will have to look into dbr again, last time I looked, it was not worked 
on anymore.
HTH, Willem


On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, kendell clark wrote:

> hi all
> I've been after a few people to write a daisy player for linux, but no one seems in any great hurry to do it, 
> so I'm
> planning to write one myself. There's an old sourcefforge project, http://dbr.sourceforge.net, which does 
> some of the
> work for me. There are a couple of problems and a few questions I have. I'm writing this for the entire linux 
> community
> I have no interest in porting it for windows. The code for most of the application is written in python, 
> which I can
> learn. The problem is, the bulk of the code is written in spanish, which I don't speak, lol. Is there any 
> program I can
> run the files through to get at least a pseudo translation in english so I can start hacking on it? If not, 
> is there
> anyone who would be willing to help me? The only other daisy reader I have any experience with is fs reader 
> for windows,
> so I'm not sure of the features most blind people would expect. Me, personally I'd like the application to 
> open with the
> last book I had open, preferably where I left off, if possible. I'd also like to be able to press a keyboard 
> shortcut to
> open a list box of all the books I have stored on the computer. There's a menu item in the gui for this but 
> it doesn't
> work yet. There are also controlls for previous and next chapter, paragraph, page, etc which heavily depend 
> on the
> markup that the book has. I've tested a couple of daisy books and it seems to work ok, but if the markup is 
> wrong it'll
> loop. What features would you guys find useful? it has bookmarks, play controlls, and a menu of total 
> duration, etc. It
> does not support text only books yet, I'm going to need to add this myself. Daisy 3.0, the newest version of 
> the
> standard, is not supported at all, so I'll need to add this as well. Unless there's a major change in legal 
> policy, I
> probably won't be supporting rfb&d and/or nls dtb books, due to their restrictive licenses. The app is fully 
> accessible,
> as far as it goes. Any help would be extremely welcome, including from teh original devs of the project. IT's 
> a long
> process that would probably take me quite a while to complete. I also have a copy of the daisy 3 standard if 
> anyone
> needs it. Any discussion of features etc should probably be done on the orca list, but any offers of help, or 
> private
> messages should go to me personally, so we don't flood the list with off topic posts.
> I'll also be hanging out on the orca chat room on gnome.org, as well as talking arch if anyone wants to drop 
> in
> there.
> I primarily use arch linux, but if this ever gets off the ground I plan to support other distros, vinux, 
> fedora, etc.
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
>
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