perhaps its time that those of us with braille note taker devices start volunteering some time to getting new braille books submitted to the NLS. the only really bad hitch I see with this is the copyright laws here in the US. If that doesn't turn out to be an issue, then we can all participate in expanding the current library of braille materials from its very low percentage to something far better. My one reason for us doing this is: we need braille literacy and there just isn't enough available materials to go around. The last braille loaner I tried to get from the local talking book library was on backorder for several months. This, among other reasons, is why we need to expand the electronic library versions. Having those files available will mean that one can simply get them printed through a local branch.
anyway, it would be nice to be able to read braille from any document around. -eric ---------- 2 of 5 ---------- From: Teresa Cochran <batsfly...@me.com> Date: Apr 17 06:12AM -0700 Url: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/msg/1ce6a32a759c493b If you convert a file to html, louis will convert it to brf. That makes sense, since the markup is text as well. Going the other way is a little more problematic. Half the time Louis interprets braille italics as dots 4-6 in computer braille, putting a period before each word instead. Personally, even with programs such as Kurzweil, I always found back translation to be less than desirable. There are too many variables, and sometimes there are strange results with it. Saying this as primarily a braille reader, there are very many more books available in audio and other formats than in Braille. In my personal experience, I've started keeping brf files in their format and using a Braille display to type in them, rather than back-translating. Of course, I have the luxury of having a braille display. Teresa Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com Facebook -- 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/d/optout.
