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[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi Al,

It sounds like you are not a Braille reader. .brf files have all the letters in upper-case. They also have special 
indicartors to indicate capitalization. The upper-case is unpleasant to read on a Braille display, because the dot 7 
sticks up continuously. Converting everything to lower-case loses nothing.

John

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 08:22:40AM -0400, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I don't know that I'd use the program, but I understand the usefulness of
> combining volumes and removing a lot of extra blank lines.  Why does the
> program convert uppercase to lowercase, though?  (I'd typically want to know
> what's capitalized and what's not in a book or magazine.)
> 
> Al
> 
> 
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have developed a program which makes books from the BARD website of the
> National Library Service braille display friendly. It does the following:
> 
> Combines all volumes into one file;
> Converts upper-case  to lower-case;
> Eliminates extra blanks at the ends of lines; Skips more than 1 blank line.
> 
> The conversion program is written in C, so it should work oo Windows. The
> command line for it uses the Linux cat command. I don't know of anything
> equivalent on Windows.
> 
> Happy and blessed Easter,
> John
> 
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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