ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Oh my fault then. Sorry about that.
It looks like you will have to use fmt or fold to set your lines to a specific length. Ebook-convert does not seem to have parameters to set minimum line character lengths.


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From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
To: blinux-list at redhat.com
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 15:35:07 +0100
Subject: Re: ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files

> 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.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 15:19:50 +0100
> > Subject: Re: ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files
> >
> >> 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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