Hi all. I do a lot of reading and writing of .brf’s directly from the display, either music or my own brand of literary Braille which is at about grade seven these days. The dot 456 combination is always tricky since it gets represented in computer Braille for embossing as an underscore, but received wisdom seems to be that underscore should get dot 7 added to it for refreshable Braille. On the Mac it was particularly annoying because if you forget and just hit dot456, you end up entering a delete character, as I’m sure others have found out to their cost. Anyway, this morning I had enough and tracked down the US 8 dot Braille table, which I’d always assumed would be embedded in a Duxbury .btb file. As it happens it’s just a plain plist in /System/Library/ScreenReader/BrailleTables/Duxbury.brailletable/Contents/Resources. After swapping the entries for 456 and 4567, I can now directly enter an underscore with 456 and so can write brf files in my editor of choice.
Other people might have already discovered this, but as it’s a fix for what a Braille nerd like me found an annoying quirk, I thought I’d report my success with it anyway. Cheers. Ben -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
