I use my booksense or victor reader stream to read brf files.
-----Original Message-----
From: Teresa Cochran
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 12:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Reading .brf Files On The iPhone
It will only work on a Braille display. Speech will make gibberish out of
it.
Teresa
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On Jan 19, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Russ Kiehne <[email protected]> wrote:
You would have to use some thing like WinBT to back translate them.
-----Original Message----- From: Moop Curran
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 3:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Reading .brf Files On The iPhone
Hi,
So there's no way to read the .brf files from NLS on ios without a braille
display? If so, this is really unfortunate.
Courtney
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On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]>
wrote:
I should add that I was mentioning programs for the Mac. I would assume
that there is a word-processing application for Windows that will export
to pdf as well.
HtH,
Teresa
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On Jan 18, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi, Mary,
IOS has a built[in translator to convert text into Grade Two Braille. As
an aside, it does not have a back-translation program to convert brf files
into Grade One.
A brf file is actually a plain ASCII text file with normal characters that
represent Braille. There is no special computer formatting for a brf file.
Therefore, this same text is rendered accurately when it's placed into an
epub file.
You can use Stanza to convert files to epub. You can also use TextEdit to
export the files to pdf format.
Again, the text, completely translated into Grade Two as originally
produced by NLS, is rendered perfectly. It looks perfect on a Braille
display, but since the characters represent Braille, it will be spoken as
gibberish if you use speech.
I hope this helps. :)
Teresa
On the other hand, there are different fingers.
On Jan 18, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Teresa,
I'm confused. What I think you said is that it is possible to read brf
files if you first convert them to epub for importation into iBooks. How
the heck do you convert a brf file into an epub? And once you did that,
then wouldn't it be translated out of braille grade II into regular print
in the epub form? So you'd need a braille translator together with a
program that converted the text from the braille translator into epub? And
then you would have to read that file with grade II translation turned on.
Clearly, I'm missing some big step here.
Mary
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