WDS-books :  How to create a TD-book

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What you need:

Tools:

The programs WD-Editor and WD-Studio. These can be downloaded from the  WDS-INFO site.

Material:

The text of the work in a suitable format for importing, .txt or .rtf. (Note that converter programs exist for a large number of formats, such as HTML, Microsoft Reader and .pdf).

Audio MP3 files of the spoken text of the work.

Optional: illustrations for the work in .jpg, .gif or .bmp format.

If you intend to publish your TD-book: make sure that everything you use is in the public domain (text, text of tranlation(s), illustrations and audio)

What you must do:

Edit the text of the TD-book (using WD-Editor)

Import the text in WD-Editor; divide text into pages / chapters; choose chapter titles; choose page and alinea layout, font types and font sizes; insert illustration links .....

Edit the audio for TD-book (using WD-Editor and WD-Studio)

For each page 3 steps are to be performed: 1) determine the right places for sentence separators, listening to the audio, and place sentence separator characters using WD-Editor 2) listen to the audio using WD-Studio and cut sound into clips for each sentence 3) check and trim the audio clips.

For more detailed descriptions of the procedures to be followed refer to WDS-INFO, the site containing comprehensive descriptions of the Worms Document System, and to the Help files of the WDS programs.

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