Mail Archives: opendos/1997/05/18/16:00:54
Has anyone managed to print any of dosbook's chapters out
to a file? The more I work with dosbook the more it's
really necessary to get these chapters out of it in ascii text form!
Things are happening in that package with
color attribute manipulation that must mean something to sighted
users but make absolutely no sense to blind users.
I'm getting lots of color changes on certain parts of the screen and
am willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that graphics
rather than text descriptions were used in the Window and Print options
menu. In any case those depending on screen review package don't
necessarily translate to anything the original programmer intended.
I have newui=off in the opendos.ini file and dosbook is
still doing direct screen writes even with the /b switch
being used. That's a badly behaved program and should be made to
conform to the rest of the system or replaced.
edit.exe is another bad actor, fortunately it's easily replaced
with legacy editors that are known to work.
Alternatively, the print chapters to disk files function should
be accessible from the command line in
dosbook. That way those who have difficulty with the
interface can simply bypass it.
jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
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