ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Fixed it, that command was missing an i in --asciiize

Even with the convert done, it says it's an ASCII file with long lines, 
please wait, then dumps me back to the terminal as before however. Is it 
that the book's too large for ebook-speaker to handle or?

On 20/09/2020 15:30, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> What sort of error.
>
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> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 15:19:50 +0100
> Subject: Re: ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files
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>> That just give me an error on input/output files however though
>>
>> On 20/09/2020 14:32, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Try this
>>> ebook-convert file.mobi file.txt --linearize-tables --asciize
>>> See if that fixes your problem.
>>> Rob
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>>> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:07:24 +0100
>>> Subject: Re: ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files
>>>
>>>> Tim, it's ebook-convert from the Calibre package, and yes they are .mobi
>>>> format originally, and given I've not found a way to natively read them
>>>> on Linux with Orca, I figured okay, I'll convert them. They do display
>>>> fine in Pluma however and I can read them that way, but I'd like the
>>>> convenience of ebook-speaker really.
>>>>
>>>> On 20/09/2020 13:30, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>>> Tim here.  You say "It tells me to wait", but it's hard to tell
>>>>> whether it's "ebook-converr" or "ebook-speaker" that's giving the
>>>>> error.  So it's hard to tell whether it's source lines in the
>>>>> original ebook that are giving trouble (in which case it would help
>>>>> to know which type of ebook:  EPUB, Mobi, etc), or the .txt output.
>>>>> If it's the former, it sounds like an issue with "ebook-converr"
>>>>> which I'm not sure I know how to deal with other than to try a
>>>>> different program.  If it's successfully producing .txt files but
>>>>> they have long lines that choke "ebook-speaker", you might be able to
>>>>> use `fmt` or `fold` to re-wrap the lines in the .txt so that they're
>>>>> shorter and hopefully don't choke "ebook-speaker".
>>>>>
>>>>> -tim
>>>>>
>>>>> On September 20, 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>>>> So I just ran into this and was wondering if anyone else has. I've
>>>>>> converted ebooks to .txt with ebook-converr and wanted to run them
>>>>>> by ebook-speaker. It tells me to wait since it's a UTF-8 file with
>>>>>> long phrases and give sme numbers, then does....precisely nothing,
>>>>>> boots me back to the terminal with a bell sound...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>
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