Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc.

Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc.

[John J. Boyer]

Hello,

This also pertains tho the websirte I am maintaining, which is for 
Wisconsin Braille, Inc. The original website was created using Frontpage. 
I've been trying out Tidy on it and may use Edbrowse also. Some of the 
material that goes on it is originally from Word files. This material has 
a lot of extra linefeeds and a lot of tabs when it is converted to text. 
Is there an editor which can do a find and replace on these characters?

Thanks,
John


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Re: Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc.

[Lee Maschmeyer]

John,

Emacs can do this, though it's taken me six months to find out how and I
may not be doing it the best way (part of the reason I'm responding).

To enter a control character, precede it with a C-Q. To replace all
occurrences of a string after Point, use the replace-string function.

For example: Recently I had to repair a Web Braille file (Captains 
Courageous) with faulty end-of-page sequences that my bb.sh script 
couldn't handle. The key sequence was as follows:

C-M-< (top-of-file)
M-xreplace-s<tab> (resulted in replace-string)
<Enter>
^q^m^q^l
<enter>
^q^m^q^j^q^l
<enter>

All done.

I've been using emacs for the past 6 months solid and am still by no 
means fond of its interface, but it seems to be able to do lots of 
stuff if you have a few lifetimes to find out how.

On a very distantly-related note, how can people not on Debian handle 
Debian packages? I tried once getting edbrowse but got depressed 
before figuring out how to deal with .deb files. No fair cheating by 
telling me I don't need the Debian distribution; I want to know about 
.deb files whether or not it's necessary in this case. <Grin>

Thanks and hope this helps,

Lee

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:51:28AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > Hello,
> > This also pertains tho the websirte I am maintaining, which is for 
> Wisconsin Braille, Inc. The original website was created using Frontpage. 
> I've been trying out Tidy on it and may use Edbrowse also. Some of the 
> material that goes on it is originally from Word files. This material has 
> a lot of extra linefeeds and a lot of tabs when it is converted to text. 
> Is there an editor which can do a find and replace on these characters? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> John 

Re: Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc.

[jude dashiell]

sed can handle control characters if you have a version that's fancy
enough.  I'm pretty certain doing these kinds of conversions is listed in
the sed.faq file.  There's tr that can be used too.  You can join
sed-users and that's a yahoogroups.com mailing list if you run into any
problems.

Re: Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc.

[Lee Maschmeyer]

I realized as I got up this morning that top-of-file is M-<, not C-M-<. 
This is corrected in the version below:

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:16:19PM -0400, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> John,
> 
> Emacs can do this, though it's taken me six months to find out how and I
> may not be doing it the best way (part of the reason I'm responding).
> 
> To enter a control character, precede it with a C-Q. To replace all
> occurrences of a string after Point, use the replace-string function.
> 
> For example: Recently I had to repair a Web Braille file (Captains 
> Courageous) with faulty end-of-page sequences that my bb.sh script 
> couldn't handle. The key sequence was as follows:
> 
> M-< (top-of-file)
> M-xreplace-s<tab> (resulted in replace-string)
> <Enter>
> ^q^m^q^l
> <enter>
> ^q^m^q^j^q^l
> <enter>
> 
> All done.
> 
> I've been using emacs for the past 6 months solid and am still by no 
> means fond of its interface, but it seems to be able to do lots of 
> stuff if you have a few lifetimes to find out how.
> 
> On a very distantly-related note, how can people not on Debian handle 
> Debian packages? I tried once getting edbrowse but got depressed 
> before figuring out how to deal with .deb files. No fair cheating by 
> telling me I don't need the Debian distribution; I want to know about 
> .deb files whether or not it's necessary in this case. <Grin>
> 
> Thanks and hope this helps,
> 
> Lee
> 
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:51:28AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: 

> > Hello,
> > 
> > This also pertains tho the websirte I am maintaining, which is for 
> > Wisconsin Braille, Inc. The original website was created using Frontpage. 
> > I've been trying out Tidy on it and may use Edbrowse also. Some of the 
> > material that goes on it is originally from Word files. This material has 
> > a lot of extra linefeeds and a lot of tabs when it is converted to text. 
> > Is there an editor which can do a find and replace on these characters? 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > John 

Access to TECH Books Online

[Debbie Pomerance]

Hi -

Does anyone know if Books 24x7 http://www.books24x7.com or O'Reilly Safari 
Bookshelf http://safari.oreilly.com provide either free subscriptions  or 
reduced cost access to blind and/or low vision users?

Thanks

Debbie

Re: Access to TECH Books Online

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Debbie,

Unfortunately, there's simply no free lunch here.  :-)  Safari starts out at
$9.95 for five books; I don't see how that can get any less expensive.  Some
public libraries subscribe to Books24X7, and you may be able to get free or
lower-cost access to that resource.  Bookshare already has most of
O'Reilly's Safari titles online, resulting from the partnership between
Benetech and O'Reilly and Associates.  If you're not already a Bookshare
subscriber, join immediately!


Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator!
A+, CCNA, Network+!
Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i
All the best to coalition forces carrying out Operation Iraqi Freedom!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debbie Pomerance" <dpomeran@cpcug.org>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 8:30 AM
Subject: Access to TECH Books Online


> Hi -
>
> Does anyone know if Books 24x7 http://www.books24x7.com or O'Reilly Safari
> Bookshelf http://safari.oreilly.com provide either free subscriptions  or
> reduced cost access to blind and/or low vision users?
>
> Thanks
>
> Debbie
>
>
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Re: Access to TECH Books Online

[Debbie Pomerance]

At  06/08/2003 11:54 AM, Darrell Shandrow  wrote -

Darrell -


>Unfortunately, there's simply no free lunch here.  :-)  Safari starts out at
>$9.95 for five books;

I agree - I was unaware of how cheap Safari is.

>public libraries subscribe to Books24X7, and you may be able to get free or
>lower-cost access to that resource.


<G> Now I find out after I subscribed several months ago !

>Bookshare already has most of
>O'Reilly's Safari titles online, resulting from the partnership between
>Benetech and O'Reilly and Associates.


I had checked out Bookshare a while back - and based on this I looked at 
their web site again.  Unfortunately, they do not have a way to search by 
publisher.   I chose to do a title search for words, such as

DNS

Sendmail

Linux

Nothing for the first 2 - and the third only had 2 or 3, and I don't 
believe any of them were O'Reilly's.    If they have a lot of O'Reilly 
books they seem to be doing a good job of hiding them from me?

Any suggestions on a better way to find their books?

Does Bookshare have any other technical computer publisher on board?

Thanks

Debbie

Re: Access to TECH Books Online

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Debbie,

Yeah, I ran into the same deal with Books24X7.  I subscribed before learning
that one of my local libraries might be able to get it for me.  I still need
to check into that possibility.

As far as Bookshare is concerned, perform a browse by category.  Select the
"computers and Internet" category.  There you will find the currently
available O'Reilly books, and a few others contributed by volunteers.  I
consider Bookshare membership to be almost a requirement for any blind
person who has a computer, an Internet connection and is serious about being
able to read anything!  :-)


Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator!
A+, CCNA, Network+!
Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i
All the best to coalition forces carrying out Operation Iraqi Freedom!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debbie Pomerance" <dpomeran@cpcug.org>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: Access to TECH Books Online


> At  06/08/2003 11:54 AM, Darrell Shandrow  wrote -
>
> Darrell -
>
>
> >Unfortunately, there's simply no free lunch here.  :-)  Safari starts out
at
> >$9.95 for five books;
>
> I agree - I was unaware of how cheap Safari is.
>
> >public libraries subscribe to Books24X7, and you may be able to get free
or
> >lower-cost access to that resource.
>
>
> <G> Now I find out after I subscribed several months ago !
>
> >Bookshare already has most of
> >O'Reilly's Safari titles online, resulting from the partnership between
> >Benetech and O'Reilly and Associates.
>
>
> I had checked out Bookshare a while back - and based on this I looked at
> their web site again.  Unfortunately, they do not have a way to search by
> publisher.   I chose to do a title search for words, such as
>
> DNS
>
> Sendmail
>
> Linux
>
> Nothing for the first 2 - and the third only had 2 or 3, and I don't
> believe any of them were O'Reilly's.    If they have a lot of O'Reilly
> books they seem to be doing a good job of hiding them from me?
>
> Any suggestions on a better way to find their books?
>
> Does Bookshare have any other technical computer publisher on board?
>
> Thanks
>
> Debbie
>
>
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Re: Access to TECH Books Online

[Debbie Pomerance]

At  06/08/2003 01:17 PM, Darrell Shandrow  wrote -
[
>As far as Bookshare is concerned, perform a browse by category.  Select the
>"computers and Internet" category.


Thanks Darrell -

I'll do this - but it is a very cumbersome and time consuming way to search 
for a title.    In addition - upper case for emphasis - they do not list 
publisher on the browse page - you have to click on each book you are 
interested in to find out the publisher... on well..

Debbie

Re: Access to TECH Books Online

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Debbie,

Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at the situation,
that category is not heavily populated at the moment, so browsing should not
be a significant problem.  :-)

Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator!
A+, CCNA, Network+!
Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i
All the best to coalition forces carrying out Operation Iraqi Freedom!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debbie Pomerance" <dpomeran@cpcug.org>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: Access to TECH Books Online


> At  06/08/2003 01:17 PM, Darrell Shandrow  wrote -
> [
> >As far as Bookshare is concerned, perform a browse by category.  Select
the
> >"computers and Internet" category.
>
>
> Thanks Darrell -
>
> I'll do this - but it is a very cumbersome and time consuming way to
search
> for a title.    In addition - upper case for emphasis - they do not list
> publisher on the browse page - you have to click on each book you are
> interested in to find out the publisher... on well..
>
> Debbie
>
>
>
>
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Re: Access to TECH Books Online

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Debbie:

Safari titles are (or will soon be) available via BookShare.org. So, that's not free, but at
least it's a flat rate anually.

Debbie Pomerance writes:
> From: Debbie Pomerance <dpomeran@cpcug.org>
> 
> Hi -
> 
> Does anyone know if Books 24x7 http://www.books24x7.com or O'Reilly Safari 
> Bookshelf http://safari.oreilly.com provide either free subscriptions  or 
> reduced cost access to blind and/or low vision users?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Debbie
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list@redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Re: Access to TECH Books Online

[Janina Sajka]

Debbie Pomerance writes:
> 
> I had checked out Bookshare a while back - and based on this I looked at 
> their web site again.  Unfortunately, they do not have a way to search by 
> publisher.   I chose to do a title search for words, such as
> 
> DNS
> 
> Sendmail
> 
> Linux
> 
> Nothing for the first 2 - and the third only had 2 or 3, and I don't 
> believe any of them were O'Reilly's.    If they have a lot of O'Reilly 
> books they seem to be doing a good job of hiding them from me?
> 
> Any suggestions on a better way to find their books?

I'm not sure. I had the same experience, which is why I suggested their
O'Reily titles may not yet be in the catalog.

I do know that they have access to all the O'Reily Safari titles. And,
they have them in pristine XML, so they'll be very high quality copies
at BookShare.

I would suggest writing them to find out how to get at them. If you do,
please let us all know what they say.


-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

RE: Access to TECH Books Online

[Pratik Patel]

Hello Debbie and Janina,

Bookshare is gradually moving the titles from O'reilly to its collection.
Several weeks ago, they added approximately 20 titles.  At this time, they
are a bit short-staffed and are unable to process O'reilly titles as much as
they would like.  However, if as a user, you are interested in obtaining a
particular title, please write to oreilly@bookshare.org and the staff will
obtain a title for you.

I hope this information helps.  

Pratik

P.S  The books that currently exist, are in an excellent quality.  They are
not yet converted in the BRF format, considering the challenge to convert
technical material into braille.  However they are available in Daisy,
which, in turn, can be converted to html which are nicely linked and
excellent heading navigation is provided.



Pratik Patel
Managing Director
CUNY Assistive Technology Services
the City University of New York
(718) 997-3775
ppatel@qc.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:44 PM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Access to TECH Books Online


Debbie Pomerance writes:
> 
> I had checked out Bookshare a while back - and based on this I looked at 
> their web site again.  Unfortunately, they do not have a way to search by 
> publisher.   I chose to do a title search for words, such as
> 
> DNS
> 
> Sendmail
> 
> Linux
> 
> Nothing for the first 2 - and the third only had 2 or 3, and I don't 
> believe any of them were O'Reilly's.    If they have a lot of O'Reilly 
> books they seem to be doing a good job of hiding them from me?
> 
> Any suggestions on a better way to find their books?

I'm not sure. I had the same experience, which is why I suggested their
O'Reily titles may not yet be in the catalog.

I do know that they have access to all the O'Reily Safari titles. And,
they have them in pristine XML, so they'll be very high quality copies
at BookShare.

I would suggest writing them to find out how to get at them. If you do,
please let us all know what they say.


-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175


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RE: Access to TECH Books Online

[Travis Roth]

Hi Janina and all,

I did ask BookShare about O'Riely titles. Here is the text of the reply
I received:

> Please visit this page on Bookshare.org's site for an explanation of
how the
> program works: http://www.bookshare.org/oreilly

> Please visit this page on O'Reilly's website for a list of books that
are
> available through Bookshare.org: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog	

> Regards,

> Gustavo Galindo
> Bookshare.org Site Administrator


**  Travis Roth
www.TravisRoth.com
travis@travisroth.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 9:44 PM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Access to TECH Books Online


Debbie Pomerance writes:
> 
> I had checked out Bookshare a while back - and based on this I looked
at 
> their web site again.  Unfortunately, they do not have a way to search
by 
> publisher.   I chose to do a title search for words, such as
> 
> DNS
> 
> Sendmail
> 
> Linux
> 
> Nothing for the first 2 - and the third only had 2 or 3, and I don't 
> believe any of them were O'Reilly's.    If they have a lot of O'Reilly

> books they seem to be doing a good job of hiding them from me?
> 
> Any suggestions on a better way to find their books?

I'm not sure. I had the same experience, which is why I suggested their
O'Reily titles may not yet be in the catalog.

I do know that they have access to all the O'Reily Safari titles. And,
they have them in pristine XML, so they'll be very high quality copies
at BookShare.

I would suggest writing them to find out how to get at them. If you do,
please let us all know what they say.


-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175


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RE: Access to TECH Books Online

[Fredrik Larsson]

Hi,

I think it is also worth mentioning the O'Reilly CD bookshelves. They are
of course not free but very accessible. It is sheaper to buy a CD
bookshelf than to buy the same books in printed form so it is quite ok I
think.

Fredrik

Re: Access to TECH Books Online

[Debbie Pomerance]

At  06/08/2003 10:44 PM, Janina Sajka  wrote -
[SNIP]

> > Any suggestions on a better way to find their books?
>
>I do know that they have access to all the O'Reily Safari titles. And,
>they have them in pristine XML, so they'll be very high quality copies
>at BookShare.
>
>I would suggest writing them to find out how to get at them. If you do,
>please let us all know what they say.
[SNIP]

Janina -

This is the response I got from bookshare.org

=======

The titles from O'Reilly & Associates that are available for
immediate download by current Bookshare.org subscribers can be found by 
visiting this link: http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksOreilly.html.
All the books listed on this page of O'Reilly's website can be requested
through Bookshare.org (and will be available through it as well, but that's
an effort still underway). The link is http://www.oreilly.com/catalog

We are talking to some other publishers
about technical titles, but for now, you will do best to search generally
under the Computers category on the site.
==========

Debbie

RE: Access to TECH Books Online

[Debbie Pomerance]

At  06/09/2003 12:40 AM, Pratik Patel  wrote -
[SNIP]
>Hello Debbie and Janina,
>
>Bookshare is gradually moving the titles from O'reilly to its collection.
>Several weeks ago, they added approximately 20 titles
[SNIP]
>  However, if as a user, you are interested in obtaining a
>particular title, please write to oreilly@bookshare.org and the staff will
>obtain a title for you.
[SNIP]

Thanks Pratik for that info - I will contact O'Reilly.

Debbie

RE: Access to TECH Books Online

[Mike Keithley]

How do you buy the bookshelf CD?

RE: Access to TECH Books Online

[Fredrik Larsson]

Hi,

You can buy the bookshelf CDs directly from O'Reilly. They are also
possible to buy from Amazon. I use to pick up used ones from EBay since it
is not possible to buy used ones from Amazon if you live outside US, since
one can only enter zip code, not country.

Fredrik

Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc.

[Karl Dahlke]

I don't know precisely what you want to do,
but I guarantee, edbrowse can do it.
You can edit an executable file,
find the string "hello world",
change the w to a j,
write the file, and run it, and get the output:

hello jorld

To undos a file, do this.

,s/\r$//

CR in the middle of a line should probably become a true line break.

,s/\r/\n/g

Change all collections of tabs and spaces to a single space.
Remember, whitespace doesn't mean anything in html, so may as well simplify it.

,s/[ \t]+/ /g

I have an edbrowse script that does a fair job of unwording a file,
so you can read the text in whatever.doc.
For more info, send questions to eklhad@comcast.net.

Karl