Markup instructions

Markup for DTBMaker is simple. First off your text should be in ASCII, including ISO-Latin-1 and UTF-8 with UTF-8 the prefered encoding. Each recorded sections is enclosed with in a <p>, <h1-6> or <pagenum>tags. Each pair of these tags represents a single mp3 file in the final book.

The DTBMaker Online website will place the reqired h1 title element at the top of the file for you.

Daisy permit heading from 1 to 6. which must be in order h1 can be followed by another h1 or h2 but not h3. DTBMaker Online attemps to check for this and will try and correct for any numbering mistakes.

<p> can also have <pagenum>x</pagenum> where x is a pagenumber. Pagenumbers can be letters or numbers. If they are numbers they must be in numeric order 1,2,3, etc. Letters are assumed to be front matter. Following the page number tags can be the text of that page followed by a closing </p> tag.

If you have your paragraphs marked with <p></p> DTBMaker Online will mark your Daisy book with phrase navigation.

Examples

Section navigation

For section navigation a file might look like this:

<div><h1>Title Page</h1>
<p>This is the text of the title page.</p>
<h2>Chapter One</h2>
<p>This is the first chapter.</p>

In this example each section is a seperate recording.
</div>

Section and page navigation

This sample shows how to mark up a page with both section and page navigation. A page navigation a file might look like this:

<h1>Title Page</h1>
<pagenum>i</pagenum>
<p>This is the title page of the first chapter. Notice how you can use roman numerals.</p> 
<pagenum>ii</pagenum>
<p>This is the title page of the first chapter.</p>

<h2>Chapter One</h2>
<pagenum>1</pagenum>
<p>This is the first page of the first chapter.</p>
<pagenum>2</pagenum>
<p>This is the second page of the first chapter.</p>

DTBmaker online will convert Project Gutenberg HTML formatted text and Bookshare.org XML files into audio/fulltext digtial talking books without modification to the original files. When converting Bookshare.org files you need only send the XML file for the book. Simply submit the file to DTBmaker online using the form above.

Lexicon Files

If you are using any language other than Swedish and Welsh then you may also send a lexicon file with your text. These lexicon files are used to specify how words should be pronounced. Please see Editing the Lexicon on Cepstral website for more information on creating these files.