[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks in TXT files
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:16:31 -0600
MMy programs/computer won't allow me to read a text file with MS word--it's
either wordpad or nothing, take my choice. <smile> Nor woould my programs
(or it may be bookshare) allow me to convert a text file into RTF. It will
not accept. <<picky, huh> smile
Sue
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Romey" <ner@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks in TXT files
When you open the thing up in word, you'll hear page break noted whenever
you see a break, If you look at the thing in word, you'll notice a control
l (dot eight with an l) at least that's how the braille lite does it when
you're looking at all control chars. I'm not sure how Jaws would do it
using a braille display, sorry.
Ner
At 02:12 PM 12/14/2004, you wrote:
>Maybe whoever can answer about how those squares are interpreted on a
speech
>synthesizer can tell me how they would look on a Braille display so I will
>know what to look for. Thanks.
>
>Sue
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 1:46 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Page Breaks in TXT files
>
>
>Hi Cindy,
>
>In answer to your question, you should be able to tell if a txt file has
>page breaks by a little symbol that looks like a square. DON'T DELETE
>THE SQUARES. Or you won't have page breaks. I have no idea how they
>sound in screen readers. They should be in the txt files you download
>anyway. If they're not, then we can work with the scanner of the book to
>save the file properly.
>
>In the file that I tested, Word put page breaks where there should have
>been page breaks, according to the txt file. I first opened the txt file
>in Word, and then saved it as an rtf file without a glitch.
>
>If people have other experiences or suggestions for how to test this
>Word error, let me know.
>
>Does that help?
>Marissa
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy
>Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:46 AM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Paring the Download Validation list
>
>Having finally finished the book I was validating, I
>went to the download list to see what I might want to
>do next (though I'm waiting to see what books from the
>Fair list Marissa will send me). Those romance books
>that people have been complaining about and that I was
>willing to try to fix, if I could obtain the books,
>are all in txt. Until the hard page break question is
>answered, i.e., do we need them or is spacing between
>the page numbers and text o.k. -- but then what about
>the breaks that Word puts in where they don't belong?
>-- I don't want to tackle them. If they are bad, why
>don't we just reject them? People who want to read the
>books can scan them and submit them as rtf, and more
>of us can then validate them. And that would decrease
>the number of books on the list considerably, it seems
>to me, just from quickly eyeing how many there were,
>not just txt in general but those.
>
>Cindy
>
>
>
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