Boston University Office of Disability Services
DAISY Production Training Module

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Introduction

This portion of the project is perhaps the most labor intensive. Think of the entire project as if you were creating a website with each page within the site being one page within a book. You will be adding hotlinks to jump from page to page and to navigate between chapters and headings.

  • Within the Main Interface window you will perform the following two basic steps for each chapter
    • Please work with each chapter file ONE AT A TIME. This was why you created individual chapter files out of the original .pdf document.
    • This allows one worker to leave a project unfinished which can then be picked up by the next person.
    • As before, make use of the textbook for noted your progress in case you have to leave a project unfinished.

Within the Main Interface window you will perform the following three basic steps for each chapter

STEP 1: PAGE NUMBERS
Look for the Green Page Number Tag from within the "Table of Contents Editor" Look for the Green Page Number Tag from within the "Table of Contents Editor"
1. In the main window, highlight the text you want to make as a page marker.
+ If edited correctly, each page should have "Page X" on the top left.
2. Press “CONTROL” + 1. A window will appear.
3. Enter the page you want. INSERT THE SAME PAGE NUMBER for both “begin” and “end", because you are only marking a single page.
4. Press add, and that text event should have a number under it to mark the page.

INSERT THE SAME PAGE NUMBER for both “begin” and “end,” because you are only marking a single page.

5. Repeat steps 1 through 4 for each and every page in the entire project.

It may seem odd that we are adding page numbers when they are already in the text. What we are actually doing is adding pages numbers that are akin to hot-links in a web page. When the project is complete you will see how these numbers are used for navigation. They will appear in the navigation as the following picture indicates:

It may seem odd that we are adding page numbers when they are already in the text. What we are actually doing is adding pages numbers that are akin to hot-links in a web page. When the project is complete you will see how these numbers are used for navigation.

Step 2: SUB-HEADING MARKERS

To make sub-levels of headings, use a process similar to page numbers.
1. Click on the “Headings” tab in the “Table of Contents” window.
2. Click on the text in the project you want to make into a heading.
3. When you have highlighted the desired text, click “CONTROL” + “SHIFT” + “S”
+ when prompted to “make a heading navigation point,” click YES.
+ when prompted to “insert a new text heading,” click NO.
+ the new heading should appear in the “Headings” tab.
4. To make the desired text something other than a Level 1 Heading (this is what your document headings are),
highlight the text, and move the left and right arrows to change the heading level.To make the desired text something other than a Level 1 Heading (this is what your document headings are), highlight the text, and move the left and right arrows to change the heading level
You will see a “2” next to your new heading when you press the right arrow, and it should go back to a “1” if you click left to bring it back.

Here again - just like with page numbers - imagine the project as a great big website with each web page being a page within the book. We are creating hotlinks within the web page for easy navigation. When the end-user accesses the book using a DAISY playback program, the different levels will appear as in the following picture:

When the student end-user accesses the book using a DAISY playback program, the different levels will appear as in this picture

While you are editing, should you notice any proofreading goofs while in EasePublisher, you can fix them in the same manner as editing Web content in Microsoft FrontPage or another simplified Web production tool.
1. First, click on the HTML symbol First, click on the HTML symbol on the icon toolbar. on the icon toolbar.
2. Find the text you want to edit, then fix accordingly. It’s as easy as typing.
3. Sometimes the program doesn’t recognize everything you type. This happens rarely, and is easy to fix.
+ Simply highlight the text you want to make a sentence, and press F4.
+ The program will automatically detect the sentence, and it should be highlighted in yellow like other sentences in the program.
4. Click “X” to exit out of HTML editor, and click "yes" on the save prompt.

Now move on to Section Three (3):
Part 3 - Graphics & Footnotes