On 27/08/11 08:10, Lisi wrote:
On Friday 26 August 2011 13:47:07 RiverWind wrote:
Many blind computer users turn to Linux in order to escape
the necessity of having to use MS Windows.
I think that that statement could be more accurately written: Many computer
users turn to Linux in order to e
On Friday 26 August 2011 13:47:07 RiverWind wrote:
> Many blind computer users turn to Linux in order to escape
> the necessity of having to use MS Windows.
I think that that statement could be more accurately written: Many computer
users turn to Linux in order to escape the necessity of having
On 2011-08-26, RiverWind wrote:
>
> If I am not mistaken, in order to run any script, it must be saved
> in a certain format. How is that done?
>
I just tried the following out and it seems to work quite well
(from Bob and Shane).
curty@einstein:~$ file=cookbook.txt
curty@einstein:~$ for chapter
Hey There,
I wish to sincerely thank everyone who has responded to my queries
concerning the Linux Cookbook. Very few if any of your instructions
and/or descriptions have interfered with my screen-reader. I would
have disclosed initially the fact that I was a speech user, but I
honestly thought
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 18:45, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> for chapternum in $(seq 1 45); do
> wget http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_$chapternum.html
> done
>
just a minor improvement:
curl http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_$chapternum.html | html2text >> $file
(define $file and put that
RiverWind wrote:
> You see, the files have a bit of an unconventional extension, to
> wit "cookbook3.html#SEC1 or cookbook14.html#SEC2" and so on. You
> see, the first number before the ".html" I believe designates the
> part, and the number following the "#SEC" indicates the different
> sections i
Hey There,
When you talk about converting all of the small files from html to
txt, and doing the concatenation, you are describing the most
desirable course of action, actually the very first method I
thought about. However, the file naming protocol doesn't at all
lend its self to such a convers
It should be possible to use the contents of index.html to set the order
for concatenation too.On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bob Proulx wrote:
> RiverWind wrote:
> > The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to
> > text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a
> > p
I use orca very little but find the command line a better choice. I
have to use g.u.i. at work and it's nice to come home and not also have
to do that at home too.
Linux and Apple so far are the only two alternatives that ever got
accessibility mostly right. Windows 3.11 could be installed us
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 15:45, Bob Proulx wrote:
> RiverWind wrote:
>> The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to
>> text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a
>> pretty viable translation.
>
> If I were going to do that for myself I would convert each
RiverWind wrote:
> The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to
> text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a
> pretty viable translation.
If I were going to do that for myself I would convert each individual
html file to text first and then concatenate th
Hi,
The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to text. The
pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a pretty viable
translation.
Riv
Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me
and what I stand for.
My Website @ http://riverwind.shellwor
On Thursday 25 August 2011 11:01:54 Jude DaShiell wrote:
> pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users and riverwind and
> me are both screen reader users.
There are quite a few visually challenged people on this list. If someone has
sight problems, as you and River have, it is worth in
On 2011-08-25, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users and riverwind and
I missed the part about screen reading, if it was included in the OP.
I found the following for Gnome, with Orca:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Acroread#details
I admit I don't understan
On 25/08/11 20:01, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users
Some pdfs have issues.
Some of the pdf issues are accessibility. :-)
Some html files also have accessibility issues...
> and riverwind and me are both screen reader users.
And you are not alone.
> The
pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users and riverwind and
me are both screen reader users. The best we can attempt is a text
extraction from pdf files if we're going to read what's in them. If
what was left in the file was a scanned image, maybe that can be scanned
on Windows I d
On 2011-08-24, RiverWind wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the linux cookbook, which consists of over five-
> hundred html files. I am wanting to concatenate them all into one
> big neat file, with all of the smaller files in perfect order. Now
> I know that "cat" can do this, but the file naming proto
On 25/08/11 09:33, RiverWind wrote:
>
> Hey There,
>
> I have downloaded the linux cookbook, which consists of over five-
> hundred html files. I am wanting to concatenate them all into one
> big neat file, with all of the smaller files in perfect order. Now
> I know that "cat" can do this, bu
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