[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks in TXT files
- From: "Tiffany H. Jessen" <tjessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:03:47 -0500
That seems odd. Txt should be openable by MS Word. Instead of entering on
the file though, you right click it and then arrow down the menu to "Open
with..." and push enter. Now you'll see a big list of programs that are on
your computer so just arrow down until you find Microsoft Word, or keep
pushing the letter M. If you tab once you'll see a check box which says
"Always use the selected program to open this kind of file", or something
along those lines. I personally only check it with specific file formats,
but things like txt are openable by so many programs I don't check the box
because I may want to use a different program the next time I open it.
If you keep tabbing there'll be an ok button so push space on it, and MS
Word will pop open with the txt file in view.
----- Original Message -----
From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks in TXT files
>
> MMy programs/computer won't allow me to read a text file with MS
word--it's
> either wordpad or nothing, take my choice. <smile> Nor woould my
programs
> (or it may be bookshare) allow me to convert a text file into RTF. It
will
> not accept. <<picky, huh> smile
>
> Sue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Noel Romey" <ner@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:20 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks in TXT files
>
>
> When you open the thing up in word, you'll hear page break noted whenever
> you see a break, If you look at the thing in word, you'll notice a
control
> l (dot eight with an l) at least that's how the braille lite does it when
> you're looking at all control chars. I'm not sure how Jaws would do it
> using a braille display, sorry.
>
> Ner
> At 02:12 PM 12/14/2004, you wrote:
>
> >Maybe whoever can answer about how those squares are interpreted on a
> speech
> >synthesizer can tell me how they would look on a Braille display so I
will
> >know what to look for. Thanks.
> >
> >Sue
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 1:46 PM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Page Breaks in TXT files
> >
> >
> >Hi Cindy,
> >
> >In answer to your question, you should be able to tell if a txt file has
> >page breaks by a little symbol that looks like a square. DON'T DELETE
> >THE SQUARES. Or you won't have page breaks. I have no idea how they
> >sound in screen readers. They should be in the txt files you download
> >anyway. If they're not, then we can work with the scanner of the book to
> >save the file properly.
> >
> >In the file that I tested, Word put page breaks where there should have
> >been page breaks, according to the txt file. I first opened the txt file
> >in Word, and then saved it as an rtf file without a glitch.
> >
> >If people have other experiences or suggestions for how to test this
> >Word error, let me know.
> >
> >Does that help?
> >Marissa
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:46 AM
> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Paring the Download Validation list
> >
> >Having finally finished the book I was validating, I
> >went to the download list to see what I might want to
> >do next (though I'm waiting to see what books from the
> >Fair list Marissa will send me). Those romance books
> >that people have been complaining about and that I was
> >willing to try to fix, if I could obtain the books,
> >are all in txt. Until the hard page break question is
> >answered, i.e., do we need them or is spacing between
> >the page numbers and text o.k. -- but then what about
> >the breaks that Word puts in where they don't belong?
> >-- I don't want to tackle them. If they are bad, why
> >don't we just reject them? People who want to read the
> >books can scan them and submit them as rtf, and more
> >of us can then validate them. And that would decrease
> >the number of books on the list considerably, it seems
> >to me, just from quickly eyeing how many there were,
> >not just txt in general but those.
> >
> >Cindy
> >
> >
> >
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> Noel Romey
> Arkansas, USA
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