file2brl(1)

file2brl1

Translate an xml or a text file into an embosser-ready braille file

Usage

file2brl [OPTION] [inputFile] [outputFile]

Overview

Translate an xml, html or a text file into an embosser-ready braille file. This includes translation into grade two, if desired, mathematical codes, etc. It also includes formatting according to a built-in style sheet which can be modified by the user.

If inputFile is not specified or '-' input is taken from stdin. If outputFile is not specified the output is sent to stdout.

-h, --help

display this help and exit

-v, --version

display version information and exit

-f, --config-file

name a configuration file that specifies how to do the translation

-b, --backward

backward translation

-r, --reformat

reformat a braille file

-T, --text

Treat as text even if xml

-t, --html

html document, not xhtml

-p, --poorly-formatted

translate a poorly formatted file

-P, --paragraph-line

treat each block of text ending in a newline as a paragraph. If there are two newline characters a blank line will be inserted before the next paragraph

-C, --config-setting

specify particular configuration settings They override any settings that are specified in a config file

-w --writeable-path

path for temp files and log file

-l, --log-file

write errors to file2brl.log instead of stderr

Releases

7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 11
  6. 12
  7. 13

--paragraph-line since Debian 9 (Stretch); --writeable-path since Debian 8 (Jessie); -P since Debian 9 (Stretch); -w since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Author

Written by John J. Boyer.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

From liblouisutdml-bin 2.12.0-7 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.