Hi, Mark,
It's a Mac Mini running Lion.

Teresa
"We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan, Cosmos

On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:07 AM, M. Taylor wrote:

> Theresa,
> 
> Is your computer a Mac or a Windows PC?
> 
> Mark
> 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
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