Hi Stacey. It was real easy to get it in there. Get TextEdit to accept brf files. On my computer these days, I told TextEdit to open brf files. Then I did a transformation by first selecting all the text, going to edit, and down to transformations. Then I chose to make all the text lower case. This has no effect except to make the braille easier to read by taking out most of the dots 7 & 8's. This all took no time at all. Then I did command c, went into a Note file, and pressed command v.
I could have done the transformation within Notes after I copied the text. However, TextEdit does not go into busy mode and is faster. I haven't tried Filer yet. Notes does take out most of the control characters as I said before. It should work fine in Web braille files, although I guess you could read them in Safari. If you did it in Notes, however, you wouldn't have to have the Internet. Try it. If it's a brf file that's near and dear to your heart, you may want to copy it first and do this on the copy. This because you can easily change it by banging the space bar or another key. As far as Notes is concerned, I worst thing that could happen is having to force quit if you have the same problem Teresa did. Regards, Gigi Eugenia Firth [email protected] On Apr 10, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
