'This worked beautifully. I knew that uncontracted was what I wanted, I just missed the eight dot option. Thanks for the tip on capitalization as well.
-Greg On Aug 3, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Greg, > > Go into vO Utility, Braille, layout tab and turn 'on eight-dot Braille. This > should fix the problem. This checkbox only appears when contractions are > turned off. Also, another reason contractions have to be turned off is that > the file has already been translated. In the case of brf files from NLS, the > text is all upper-case, so you may want to go to edit/transformations once > you highlight all the text and make it lower-case. > > HtH, > Teresa > > On Aug 3, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Greg Aikens <gpaik...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> It's been a while since I tried to read a brf on my mac using a braille >> display. I thought that I should be able to open it in text edit and turn >> off braille contractions and be good to go, but for some reason that isn't >> working right. >> >> For some reason VO isn't representing the braille symbols correctly. >> Dropped symbols, such as the symbol for con or in have a number sign in >> front of them, as if they were the numbers 3 and 9. It mangles other >> contractions even worse. As far as I can tell, this is a VO or braille >> display problem and not just bad transcription. I can't actually navigate >> to the number sign in front of these symbols, which tells me there isn't >> actually a number sign in the brf file. I tried it with two files, a book >> from BARD and a practice exam from the National Certification in Literary >> Braille Test. Both had the same problems. >> >> I'm running the latest update of mountain lion with VO and a Brailleconnect >> 32 bluetooth display. My braille translation table is just plain english >> but the problem persisted even when I switched to UEB. >> >> Has anyone run into a similar problem? What settings might I change to fix >> this? >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> Best, >> Greg >> >> -- >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
