Hmmm, I just tried RoboBraille online. It had the info tags correct for title and author, but no Braille displayed. I changed the brf file extension to txt, since RoboBraille doesn't allow for that as a starting extension. Then I had it convert from txt to epub. No dice, as far as displaying Braille in Ibooks is concerned.
Teresa "Man is matter's ability to contemplate itself."--Albert Einstein On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Mark and all, > > Yes, and it doesn't work either. Interesting. So it's probably not the brf > format that's causing the trouble. > > Have you tried any other converters? I can't seem to get the hang of Calibre > in command-line. I think I'll try one of the online conversion tools and see > how that goes. > > Teresa > > "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. > Feynman > > On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:59 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > >> Hello Theresa, >> >> I do not use Stanza. >> >> However, have you tried saving a plain text file with a few sentences as an >> eBook and test it in iBooks? >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> >>> Hi, all, >>> >>> IBooks doesn't like the epub files that I produce, for some reason. Here's >>> what I do. >>> >>> I open a brf file in TextEdit, copy all the text, open Stanza, choose "new >>> from clipboard" from the file menu, and save it as an Epub document in my >>> ITunes Books folder. I then sync it to my IPod. It says "unknown". I >>> experimented with changing the info tags so that they show the title and >>> author once I enter them in manually. >>> >>> When I open IBooks, it hangs and is unresponsive. the Braille does not >>> display at all, and I get a few stuttered words when I turn on speech just >>> to experiment. (I'm aware speech can't read the books.) >>> >>> So I'm wondering if I'm missing any steps somewhere. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Teresa >>> >>> "Nobody ever tells me anything!"--James Forsyte, quoted in the Forsyte Saga >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "VIPhone" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
