ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Tue Sep 22 19:19:12 UTC 2020


Thought I sent this earlier, but not sure since my sent folder's acting 
up...but is there a way to tell ebook-speaker not to convert a book into 
a .wav file and just open it in ebook-speaker and read it that way?

On 20/09/2020 16:03, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 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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