HI Roselle, thank you for the help!
I guess my customer will have a little work to do renaming those files. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roselle Ambubuyog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 12:33 PM Subject: re: [Braillenote] those braille 'N speak transfer blues. > Jim, > > Make sure that the files being transferred from the Braille 'n Speak to the BrailleNote have extensions. If they are supposed to be read in computer Braille, give them a .txt extension, and if they are to be read in grade 2 Braille, give them a .brf extension. > > This will 1) tell the BrailleNote how to treat the contents of the files and prevent it from reading the contracted Braille entries as computer Braille, and 2) let you access document options like using line or paragraph format when opening and saving the file (select line format to retain the carriage-returns), and the extended character set (select MS-DOS if you entered some characters using the ALT commands on the Braille 'n Speak). When you open these files in Keyword for the first time, you will be asked to review these options. > > When you've checked the file and it reads fine, you can exit and save it as a Keyword type Braille or text document (which I recommend). To do this, reply yes to the prompt you get after exiting a file you have modified. If you did not modify the file but wish to get that prompt to convert it to a Keyword document, press SPACE with X (READ with X) twice to enter and exit the Review Mode. > > On the other hand, if you wish to keep the files as they are, but do not want to get that prompt every time you exit the file after revising it, type S to suppress prompt in response to the query of saving it as a Keyword document. > > HTH, > Roselle > > >----- QUOTED MESSAGE ----- > >Sent by: "Jim O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Yesterday I took a call from one of our customers who wants to transfer > >files from there BNS to there voiceNote. > > >He copied the files on to a floppy disk, and then on to his VoiceNote. > > >When he goes to read them with his word processor they are not reading the > >way they did on his BNs. > > >I went through this last year, and have forgotten what I did to make the > >data come out write. > > >any help in this would be appreciated. > > >thanks in advance, > > > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >
