Wow, how did you get the brf file into notes? On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> Hi Guys. > I have been doing some experiments with Notes and braille, specifically brf > files. Hey, guys, Apple never intended for it to be used like this, but Notes > will swallow a whole brf file such as o you would get from Web Braille. Notes > will do transformation such as making all the text lower case, but it's > faster to do that in TextEdit and also to avoid Mail Busy. However, Mail Busy > did come out of it on ΓΏ computer. Also, Notes takes the display of the most > irritating outhe control characters, the carriage returns and the line feeds. > The spaces and the page breaks are displayed, but they are displayed in such > a way that it doesn't interfere with where the goes on the idsplay. In other > words, what's supposed to be in cell 40 is. If i had known this sooner, I > would have tried it two weeks ago when I was using my Mac to read brf files. > > Because Web braille files have a margin of cell 38, this reading using this > method should better on them. This is because the computer insists on showing > a blank line if there is acharacter in cell 40. There won't be a character in > cell 40 in a Web braille file. I think the display of control characters is a > silent one in notes, and that's why you see a blank line with files that have > a 40 cell margin. But for those with cell 38 no what appears to be a blank > line should be displayed. > > I hope all this makes sense. This means yours truly can use an iPad with > Notes for my reports because they are much shorter than those brf files. It > also means, that, if I wanted to, I could use either a Mac or the iPad to > read a brf file with very little conversion. > > Regards, > Gigi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
