Hello Paul, Simply stated, back translating a Braille document from anything other than grade 1 Braille is asymmetrical. That is to say, that the rules used to translate into Braille cannot be easily reversed.
I can easily back-translate using Duxbury but the results can be anything but consistent. For a Braille display user, it is far better to leave the document in a translated state. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Henrichsen Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: How To Import WebBraille Books Into IBooks I'm puzzled. Why not just back translate the brf file? The problem with this method is that you can only read the file in ibooks with a braille display; no ability to listen to the book with voiceover. For windows users, there is a free back translation program. Not sure for the Mac. If you are a kurzweil user, you can load the brf file into k1000 and it will back translate it. You can then save it at least as a txt file before converting it to pdf or epub. On Apr 18, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Timothy Emmons wrote: > Thanks Theresa, i appreciate this, this method is a lot easier than I was going through the steps with so if you don't mind I am going to share this with one of my patrons here at the library. I work with the braille collection here at the Library for the Blind and also handle technology and alternative reading methods and this goes right up there with what I do perfectly. Thanks for the trick and I'll pass this along if you don't mind. I've been using web braille on Itunes but I've been doing it the hard way using a braille translator, a book converter, like Stanza, and all that junk, but this makes it easier. Thanks again and take care. Talk to you soon. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, all, >> >> I don't usually cross-post, but this seems like an instance in which it would be beneficial. >> >> I'm going to share with you all the way I've successfully imported WebBraille books to read in IBooks. There are other methods of reading these on the IPhone/IPod, but this method will allow you to keep your place in the book when you need to pause reading. I used TextEdit on the Mac to open the file and export it to pdf. Check your text-editor's documentation on exporting to pdf if you're using another OS or editor. >> >> This method will only work with a braille display, and does *not* work with speech. >> >> I haven't tested it on other brf files, but you might give it a try. >> >> 1. Open a brf WebBraille file in TextEdit. If you don't like the uppercase dot-7 caps appearing for all of the characters, select all the text, go into the edit menu, choose "transformations" and change to lower case. At this point, you can check the document with the braille display to see if it is readable. Use eight-dot Braille, uncontracted. >> 2. From the file menu in TextEdit, choose "export to pdf". In the save dialog, you'll be presented with a filename with a pdf extension. Save the file in a place that's easy to find. >> 3. In Itunes add the file you just saved to your library. It will appear in your Books list. >> 4. Use whichever sync settings you've specified to sync this book to your IDevice. I usually do this manually, placing the file in my Ipod/books playlist. >> 5. Open IBooks and find the file in your IBooks library. Change Braille to eight-dot, uncontracted. Use dots 3- and 6-chord at the page chooser to switch pages. >> >> Enjoy. >> >> Teresa >> >> -- >> 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 "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
