My error in the path name; it should be: file://\Flash Disk\My Books\book.htm
>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Maria Kristic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Sent: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:13:44 -0800 >Subject: re: [Braillenote] Help with HTML files >>From the Main Menu, hit I to enter KeyWeb, and at the Address Bar, hit SPACE >>to get into the list of favorites. Hit BACKSPACE once to change folders if >>your file's on the Flash Disk (the default location is the My Favorites >>folder of the Flash Disk), or press BACKSPACE twice to change drives if your >>file is on a drive other than the Flash Disk. Select the location in the >>usual way, and at the "List of Favorites" prompt, press [SPACE with X], [READ >>with X] to get into the "List of HTML, text, and Braille files" view. Then, >>scroll through the list, and when you see your HTML file, hit ENTER, and it >>will open. >When you're finished with that file, and if you have another HTML file you >want to read, instead of just repeating the above procedure, from within the >file, go into the Internet Options Menu with [ENTER with M], [CONTROL with 2], >and select the "Open HTML File" option. Select the file in the usual way, and >the default view here will present you with HTML files, so you won't need to >change file views to see the HTML files you have stored on your unit. >Note that, both at the Address Bar and through the Open HTML File options, >instead of selecting your file from the list, you can, at the "Address?" or >"File Name?" prompts respectively, type the path name of your file if you know >where it's located, using Computer Braille on a BT. For example, if you want >to open a file called book.htm stored in the My Books folder of the Flash >Disk, you would type: file:/\\Flash Disk\My Books\book.htm >BTW, if you want to save an HTML file into a type which you can read in >KeyWord or KeyBook and will display only the text of the file when you open it >in one of those programs, as opposed to the text along with the HTML tags, >because it's not an HTML file, you can do so. You can save it as an ASCII >Text file. In KeyWeb, when on a Web page, or HTML file you have previously >saved to your unit, press [SPACE with S], [CONTROL with S]. Choose a location >to which to save this non-HTML type of file in the normal fashion. At the >"File Name?" prompt, if you are already offered a file name, move to the end >of the file name with [SPACE with dots 4-6], [READ with SEMICOLON], and type >.txt. If there is no file name being offered, type one with a file extension >of .txt at the end. Of course, if you're offered a name which you don't want >for the file, type a name with a .txt extension to change the existing name >and type to which to save. Use Computer Braille on a BT. Now, you would see >that, if you opened this file in KeyWord or KeyBook, it would contain only the >text of the original HTML file and no tags. Note, however, that you have to >do this in KeyWeb because HTML files are designed to be manipulated in a Web >browser, which is why you can't save them to .txt from, say, KeyWord or the >File Manager. >One last thing: Web-Braille books are .brf files and not .htm, which is why >you can't, if you want, for example, an ASCII Text copy of the file, just save >it as .txt instead of .brf through KeyWeb; instead, you must save it as .brf, >and translate another way, such as the File Manager. >HTH, >Maria
