In my experience, it can't work well with italics or any other kind of formatting. It only works with plain text files.
Devin Prater Sent from my iPod 5. iMessage, facebook, and face-time: [email protected] email: [email protected] Google Talk/keychat: [email protected] > On Apr 16, 2014, at 18:49, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28601/louis > > Teresa > > On the other hand, there are different fingers. > > On Apr 16, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Jim Gatteys <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Where do you get Louis? >> jg >> >>> On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:22 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, it can. Louis can also be used to do this. >>> >>> NFBTrans is a command-line application. This build has to be compiled and >>> installed, and I still have to learn to do this. There are instructions in >>> the readMe file, but they assume some knowledge of command-line. So as for >>> my own situation, I'll probably stick with Louis, as this build of NFBTrans >>> has DOS and unix files all mixed together and needs more tweaking than I >>> know how to do. >>> >>> Teresa >>> >>> "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan >>> >>>> On Apr 16, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Eric Oyen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> can that translator work the other way? I would like to take plain text or >>>> text PDF files and convert them for reading on my Braille Sense U2. I know >>>> that the U2 can read text files directly, but it would be helpful for >>>> other things (including helping the NLS get more braille books). >>>> >>>> -eric >>>> >>>>> On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:17 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Date: Apr 15 06:40PM -0400 >>>>> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/msg/520b3a19132af757 >>>>> >>>>> Hi. >>>>> You may want to look at >>>>> http://www.softcon.com/mac/unix/Index.html >>>>> It has a copy of NFBTrans seemingly compiled for OSX. NFBTrans is a >>>>> braille translator, allowing BRF files to be translated into text. I >>>>> do use this program, but not on the Mac, so am unsure of the ability >>>>> or quality of the program on the platform. >>>>> Aman >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
