automated nfbtrans; was Re: Continuous speaker beep (fwd)

automated nfbtrans; was Re: Continuous speaker beep (fwd)

[Cheryl Homiak]

Sorry; I've been replying to the wrong message and my nfbtrans comments
were going out as "continuous beep" comments.
Must be time to quit!!!
so here's the latest under the right subject heading.

-- 
Cheryl

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 13:59:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@chartermi.net>
To: speakup <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Continuous speaker beep

Ok, found a much simpler way to do this, not using expect. Oh well, but I
did learn a lot playing around with expect.
The only drawback is that I haven't found a way from the command line or
the nfbtrans.cnf file to have a wild card for the output file; you can use
*.brf for your input file but all those files will be written together to
one *.txt file.
So I did the following:

(1) added or edited the following in /usr/local/lib/nfbtrans.cnf

# set translation mode to back-translate by default
tm=3
# automatic  .txt output file for .brf input file
on=2
# eliminates prompt for a file being overwritten
ow=1
# stops most progress output;  shows current output file
qm=1

Then I ran the following short script:

for i in *.brf
do
nfbtrans $i
done
exit 0


-- 
Cheryl

Re: automated nfbtrans; was Re: Continuous speaker beep (fwd)

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

Hi, Cheryl,

     If nfbtrans writes its output to standard-out, try this.
for i in *.brf
do
nfbtrans $i > $(basename $i brf)txt
done


          HTH.
-- 
          Bill in Denver


On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Sorry; I've been replying to the wrong message and my nfbtrans comments
> were going out as "continuous beep" comments.
> Must be time to quit!!!
> so here's the latest under the right subject heading.
> 
> 

Re: automated nfbtrans; was Re: Continuous speaker beep (fwd)

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi Bill and all.
Yes, that code works fine, though now that I have the have the options for
changing the default translation mode and having the .txt file generated
automatically, nothing beyond the $i is needed.
Thanks.



-- 
Cheryl

Re: automated nfbtrans; was Re: Continuous speaker beep (fwd)

[JOHN LEE]

Does anyone know how to tell what position you are on when using
apowerbraille. Let's say you are in microsoft word, I want to know what row
and column, is there a short cut key on the braille display or in jaws?

John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@chartermi.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: automated nfbtrans; was Re: Continuous speaker beep (fwd)


> Hi Bill and all.
> Yes, that code works fine, though now that I have the have the options for
> changing the default translation mode and having the .txt file generated
> automatically, nothing beyond the $i is needed.
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: automated nfbtrans

[Christopher Moore]

Cheryl,
Thanks for the elagant solution to the nsbtrans problem.  Until someone
figures out this daisy/xml stuff, brf and txt are the best way for blind
folks to read books on a computer.  What would be really nice is a version
of "less" which would save bookmarks prior to exiting the program.  

We also need an xml to html converter to read those o'reilly books from 
bookshare
in lynx.   

Chris

Re: automated nfbtrans

[Cheryl Homiak]

It would be nice if less would save bookmarks. for brf files, this btv
program of lee's is doing a nice job of starting up where I left off.

For some of the bookshare xml files, you can just change the name to html
and view in your browser. from there I converted to text and then to brf.
works fine for some things, but probably would hit snags with more
technical material. Of course, you don't get the audio part of the
so-called "daisy" file that way, but at least there's a way to read the
content.

I still hope that "Exploring Expect" will make an appearance on bookshare.
I had fun with it even though I did not need it in the end to automate
nfbtrans.



-- 
Cheryl

Re: automated nfbtrans

[Steve Holmes]

Hey if you want bookmarks, consider using e-macs to read the txt file
and use the c-x r command set for creating and retrieving bookmarks.
Look at registers in the emacs info documentation.  I see this as a
very powerful system with unlimitted bookmarks with user definable names.

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:48:59PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> It would be nice if less would save bookmarks. for brf files, this btv
> program of lee's is doing a nice job of starting up where I left off.
> 
> For some of the bookshare xml files, you can just change the name to html
> and view in your browser. from there I converted to text and then to brf.
> works fine for some things, but probably would hit snags with more
> technical material. Of course, you don't get the audio part of the
> so-called "daisy" file that way, but at least there's a way to read the
> content.

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Open Virus

[Will Smith]

I thought others might enjoy this bit of humor:

Will
wilsmith@iglou.com
   Thursday,  August 28 12:01 AM EDT

   Open Source Community
   Developing Their Own Viruses
   By [15]Brian Briggs

   Helsinki, Finland - Open source developers plan to challenge
   Microsoft's dominance in the world of viruses by developing their own
   through the Open Virus Project (OVP), and unlike proprietary Microsoft
   viruses, the open source versions will infect across all platforms.

   [biohazard.jpg] Heading the development of the OVP is Jukka Koskelin.
   He explained, "We took a look at the virus marketspace and realized
   that Microsoft has over a 95% share of all viruses developed. I don't
   think the Linux community can be taken seriously if we don't increase
   our share in that area."

   "The viruses we're developing will work cross-platform unlike
   Microsoft viruses which only work on Windows systems. There are ports
   to Linux, *BSD, Solaris, and yes, even Windows. We should have a Mac
   port in a couple of months," Koskelin continued.

   The OVP currently has two viruses in beta: "eyespy" and "GPLdaemon."
   Eyespy installs a spyware checking program, and notifies OVP, so they
   can inform the user that they're being spied on. GPLdaemon uses spare
   CPU cycles to check every file on an infected users hard drive
   bit-by-bit to see if it contains any software that violates the GPL.

   The viruses will arrive as .tar.gz attachments and will use automake.
   Both eyespy and GPLdaemon will need to be compiled and executed by the
   user for them to be infected. The viruses can use any e-mail program
   to propagate, and do not require Outlook or Outlook Express.

   "We had a lot of arguments on the OVP mailing list about whether to
   send it out as source code or as an executable, but eventually we
   decided that source would spread much more rapidly as it would be
   optimized for each system," said Koskelin. "I know a few programmers
   outside the project have already created .rpm and .deb packages,
   however."

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