Hi Richard,
On 22 Apr 2004 at 9:13, Richard Ehrler spoke, thus:
> Speaking of ASCII file translation, I have a question about end of line
> termination characters in the VN and BN. In my old Braille N Speak 2000
> files are created with carriage returns only. Some files I get from UNIX
> systems have line feed characters only at the end of lines. Most DOS text
> files contain carriage return-line feed pairs at the end of each line. What
> does the Voice Note and Braille Note expect or use as end of line
> termination? Does it care if I import a file with just carriage returns or
> line feeds? Should I preprocess these files to a particular configuration
> before using them in the VN or BN or can it handle them on the fly?
To succinctly answer your question: BrailleNote always generates files
with CR/LF pairs. However, it doesn't appear to care when importing files
whether CR, LF or CR/LF is used - it treats each such sequence simply as a
"New line" character. However, I advise you test this for yourself.
Though documentation and my hurried tests suggests no problem with any
variation, meaning you do not need to preprocess the input files, I
suggest you open the file for reading in line mode so that you can plainly
see if the files have correctly placed newlines. If they have only gliffs
or unknown characters or lines seem to stretch into infinity, then it
hasn't worked. However, as I say, my tests for the LF only used by UNIX
seem positive.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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