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Bristol-Braille / canute-ui

User interface for the Canute electronic Braille reader.
http://bristolbraille.co.uk
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Special character in BRFs produced by Dux DBT causes problems #259

Open pachpict opened 4 years ago

pachpict commented 4 years ago

Svetlana:

"we’ve encounterred a problem while trying to read the text. The file is attached. After reading a couple of pages the device defaults to its original one pager. Here is the unit info:

Serial: akct55276-[redacted]phi.

Release: 1.3.16"

Alex responds:

"I found the cause of this problem. This problem was related to page break character. This symbol was inserted by DBT program. You can find it at the end of the table of contents in that attached file. Once all entries for this symbol have been deleted from the file, the Canute 360 device reads and displays this file correctly."

pachpict commented 4 years ago

Blaze ET — quick guide full.brf.txt

pachpict commented 4 years ago

EMR response:

"I'm surprised that can cause an issue as we have specifically designed Canute firmware with Dux DBT output in mind.

The page break character in that file is the same as that found in, for example, our calendar file, which was also output from DBT and works fine.

Can you try this and let us know whether you get the same problem? The link is here:

https://github.com/Bristol-Braille/canute-ui/wiki/Braille-Ready-Files-to-use-with-Canute-360

We have tested Canute with books with those page breaks, but only ones with 8, 9, 25 and 27 lines per page. It may be that it isn't the page break character as such, but its placement after every 18 lines in your books (for some reason I can't work out quite yet!) Either way it is something Canute firmware obviously needs to fix."