oops, wrong list; sorry. this was meant for VIPhone. Apologies! Teresa "Man is matter's ability to contemplate itself."--Albert Einstein
On Apr 16, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > 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 viph...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> 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 viph...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
