Hi, John. I must be missing something here. I read lots and lots of Braille, including from Bard and Bookshare. Indeed, Braille is my primary reading medium and has been for something over fifty years. I've never known Bard BRF files to be in all uppercase--although I assume one would or should be if the print it was converted from itself was uppercase. What am I getting wrong, if anything? Thanks! Al -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2019 1:39 PM To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Please contact me offlist if you think this would be useful. 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list