Hi Al, It sounds like you are not a Braille reader. .brf files have all the letters in upper-case. They also have special indicartors to indicate capitalization. The upper-case is unpleasant to read on a Braille display, because the dot 7 sticks up continuously. Converting everything to lower-case loses nothing. John On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 08:22:40AM -0400, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Greetings! > > I don't know that I'd use the program, but I understand the usefulness of > combining volumes and removing a lot of extra blank lines. Why does the > program convert uppercase to lowercase, though? (I'd typically want to know > what's capitalized and what's not in a book or magazine.) > > Al > > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2019 7:42 PM > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Please contact me offlist if you think this would be useful. > > Hello, > > I have developed a program which makes books from the BARD website of the > National Library Service braille display friendly. It does the following: > > Combines all volumes into one file; > Converts upper-case to lower-case; > Eliminates extra blanks at the ends of lines; Skips more than 1 blank line. > > The conversion program is written in C, so it should work oo Windows. The > command line for it uses the Linux cat command. I don't know of anything > equivalent on Windows. > > Happy and blessed Easter, > John > > -- > John J. Boyer > Email: john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org > Status: Company dissolved but website and email addresses live. > Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA > Mission: developing assistive technology software and providing STEM > services > that are available at no cost > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- John J. Boyer Email: john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: Company dissolved but website and email addresses live. Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA Mission: developing assistive technology software and providing STEM services that are available at no cost _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list