[brailleblaster] Re: Embossing from the command line
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:07:38 -0500
The emboss and translate subcommands have not been modified to look for
files in userProgramData first. I was thinking of doing this, but
debugging has first priority. Is the findInProgramData method in the
FileUtils class being used elsewhere, and does it work?
Something will have to be done to prevent users from editing using
nimas.cfg in the GUI and then truing to emboss from the command line.
nimas.cfg will produce brf if the configSettings string contains
"formatFor brf". I think that translate and emboss should produce an
error message if the user attempts to use incompatible files and then
stop, but I'm not sure how that could be done.
John
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:11:07PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> Yes, I'm a little confused by this too. We need to sort it out. Probably
> today. We can't have people viewing the braille as produced by nimas.cfg and
> then producing the brf file using different settings and/or semantic actions
> and styles. So, editing using nimas.cfg and then embossing using
> preferences.cfg is not an acceptable solution.
>
>
>
>
> Keith Creasy
> Software Developer
> American Printing House for the Blind
> KCreasy@xxxxxxx
> Phone: 502.895.2405
> Skype: keith537
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vic Beckley
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 8:07 AM
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Embossing from the command line
>
> John and Keith,
>
> I am getting really confused here.
>
> John, you said that the nimas.cfg file isn't meant for direct embossing, yet
> it is now the default configuration file for BB. I thought embossing was the
> main purpose of BB. If that is no longer true, what is the program being
> changed into?
>
> Shouldn't we be able to open a document in BB, even using the nimas.cfg
> configuration file, and emboss what we see in the Braille preview? I thought
> the Braille preview showed exactly what was going to be sent to the embosser.
>
> So when embossing from the command line, do we now have to specify the
> preferences.cfg file as the configuration file every time? Shouldn't it be
> the default for command line embossing?
>
> I would appreciate any clarifications on this. Thanks.
>
>
> Best regards from Ohio,
>
> Vic
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 10:17 PM
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Embossing from the command line
>
> nimas.cfg is not intended for direct embossing. It produces utd.
> preferences.cfg should work, however.
>
> John
>
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 10:59:55AM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> > Keith,
> >
> > Embossing with the emboss subcommand does work with the latest build
> > of
> BB.
> > I am sending it to a text-only embosser set up as a Generic / Text
> > Only printer. However, the Braille output didn't look like the Braille
> > output when using either the NIMAS.cfg or preferences.cfg files. I
> > don't know
> what
> > settings it was using.
> >
> >
> > Best regards from Ohio,
> >
> > Vic
> >
> >
> >
>
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> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
>
>
>
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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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