If you convert a file to html, louis will convert it to brf. That makes sense, since the markup is text as well. Going the other way is a little more problematic. Half the time Louis interprets braille italics as dots 4-6 in computer braille, putting a period before each word instead.
Personally, even with programs such as Kurzweil, I always found back translation to be less than desirable. There are too many variables, and sometimes there are strange results with it. Saying this as primarily a braille reader, there are very many more books available in audio and other formats than in Braille. In my personal experience, I've started keeping brf files in their format and using a Braille display to type in them, rather than back-translating. Of course, I have the luxury of having a braille display. Teresa Teresa Cochran [email protected] Facebook On Apr 17, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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