I haven't actually done that conversion before. Sometimes I convert documents by simply pasting text in, but then you lose all your formatting. With things like epub or mobi, Calibre command-line can be used.
Teresa "The golden age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete graham On Apr 17, 2014, at 6:52 AM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, thanks. So how would I convert a pages file to HTML? I didn't think Pages > could export to HTML. > > Devin Prater > Sent from my iPod 5. > iMessage, facebook, and face-time: [email protected] > email: [email protected] > Google Talk/keychat: [email protected] > >> On Apr 17, 2014, at 8:12, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. 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