Ottawa Canada I am cc-ing Andrew at Humanware and Joe Sullivan at Duxbury on this one as the problem may involve both the BrailleNote and Duxbury.
Ottawa Canada So in summary, your teacher is creating a worksheet for you in Duxbury on a PC and saving it as a .brf file on a CF card for you to read and enter your replies into on your BrailleNote which when you are finished, you save as a .brf file on the CF card and hand into your teacher to be read in Duxbury on her PC. Duxbury expects a .brf file to contain formatted Braille and it looks like when it finds the format of the file you put your answers in different than it left it when Duxbury created it, it figures something is wrong and just trims off the excess characters instead of wrapping them to a new line which is what you want. I can think of a couple of reasons why Duxbury is seeing long lines from the BrailleNote. (a) It isn't recognizing the ENTER key at the end of your answer line as marking the end of a line, or: (b) You aren't pressing the ENTER key on your BrailleNote before you reach the end of the line in the .BRF file Duxbury originally created. Since the BrailleNote can read plain text files in grade two far as I know, the simplest way to solve your problem is probably: Have your teacher either give you a plain text file (MS-DOS TEXT with line breaks) text file created on her PC and you read it in grade 2 Braille on your BrailleNote, with you entering your answers in plain text, which she can read in any PC word processor, like Word Pad etc., OR: Have her give you a .BRU file (Unformatted Braille) file created by Duxbury and you enter your answers in Grade 2 Braille and give her back your work as a .BRU file which she tells Duxbury to make into a .BRF file and then embosses for you. There may be a simpler work around, but I'm a new BrailleNote user and don't know the machine's capabilities intimately. I think your Everest embosser is probably working just fine and your main problem is trying to make changes to a .brf file which is getting Duxbury all mixed up. Sorry for the long, drawn-out answer, but sometimes there is really no quick, short, answer to a problem. If there is a better fix, hopefully Mr. Joe Sullivan, the absolute expert on the Duxbury Braille Translator, and Andrew rIDEN AT Humanware WILL BE ABLE TO POST IT TO THE bRAILLEnOTE list. Sorry for getting my caps lock key stuck on! Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Keao Wright Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:31 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: Fw: [Braillenote] Characters Dropping Off Was Saving a document Hears what she means by the characters dropping off . Message is below. > The original document is a worksheet created in Duxbury and saved for you > to > read as a .brf file. The embosser settings are as indicated. > You upload from a flash card to the Braille Note, fill in your answers, > and > save your work as a .brf file and hand it in on a flash card. > I am importing your .brf file in to Duxbury and reading it as a braille > file. > When I import, I get a message saying "page width exceeded." I can open > the > file in Duxbury, but long lines created on the BN are truncated. > For example, > See your document on the BN for question 1 > My answer reads as follows: > ",coral reefs >e important 2c x's ! Anima" The next thing I see is > question > 2. > > I don't remember what your embosser settings are or how to find that out. > That would also be something to inquire about. ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.4/319 - Release Date: 19/04/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.4/319 - Release Date: 19/04/2006 ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
