Hi Gigi, I'll give this a try. Thanks. On Apr 10, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> 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. -- 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.
