[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Getting unwanted blank lines at end of BRF
- From: "John Brugge" <johnbrugge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 05:57:34 -0700
Thanks John, I'll poke around a bit more on the Java side. The Java
binding of liblouisutdml does sound appealing, too.
John
On 5/12/11 12:23 PM, "John J. Boyer" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>The command line looks ok except for the huge number of lines per page.
>If you don't want braille page numbers and form feeds just specify
>braillePages no
>
>The extra blank lines would seem to be a Java issue. I think there have
>been problems with the ProcessBuilder class. You can get around using
>this class altogether by using liblouisutdml, which has Java bindings,
>including for a method called file@brl which behaves like xml2brl and
>takes an array of String with the same arguments, except that C and the
>configuration setting it refers to are separate arguments.
>
>I'm glad you have subscribed to liblouis-liblouuisxml. You may wish to
>subscribe to brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx also
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
>On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 08:35:59AM -0700, John Brugge wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having a strange situation where I am getting 8,190 blank lines at
>>the end of my converted BRF, but only for some input files, and only for
>>some invocations, and I'm unable to pinpoint what would be causing it.
>>
>> We are using liblouisxml 2.1.0, and I'm seeing this on both OS X and
>>Linux. What is strangest is that this only happens when running xml2brl
>>from Java, using the ProcessBuilder class. This is a class for running
>>external command-line programs from within Java. When I capture the
>>full command line that is generated by this, and run the equivalent
>>command from a terminal window, using the same input XML file, the BRF
>>does not have any blank lines at the end, and otherwise has no
>>differences. Furthermore, while this doesn't happen with all input XML,
>>in those cases where it does happen, the number of blank lines is always
>>8,190, no matter the length of the input XML.
>>
>> The command line looks like this:
>> xml2brl \
>> -f
>>/Users/john/.benetech/liblouis/converterPackage/bookshare-refreshable.cfg
>> \
>> -CliteraryTextTable=en-us-brf.dis,en-us-g1.ctb \
>> -CuncontractedTable=en-us-g1.ctb \
>> -CcompbrlTable=en-us-comp8.ctb \
>> -CeditTable=edittable.ctb \
>> -CcellsPerLine=40 \
>> -ClinesPerPage=2147483646 \
>> -CprintPages=yes \
>> /Users/john/brfTest/Little_Brother-prepared.xml \
>> /Users/john/brfTest/Little_Brother-manual.brf
>>
>> Attached is the bookshare-refreshable.cfg file, which is one that we
>>have been using for a long time without incident. I can pass along a
>>sample XML file if that would be useful.
>>
>> Any clues, or pointers to ways to debug this, are appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> John Brugge
>> Bookshare.org
>
>
>
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