problem reading brf files on mac
Hello all, It's been a while since I tried to read a brf on my mac using a braille display. I thought that I should be able to open it in text edit and turn off braille contractions and be good to go, but for some reason that isn't working right. For some reason VO isn't representing the braille symbols correctly. Dropped symbols, such as the symbol for con or in have a number sign in front of them, as if they were the numbers 3 and 9. It mangles other contractions even worse. As far as I can tell, this is a VO or braille display problem and not just bad transcription. I can't actually navigate to the number sign in front of these symbols, which tells me there isn't actually a number sign in the brf file. I tried it with two files, a book from BARD and a practice exam from the National Certification in Literary Braille Test. Both had the same problems. I'm running the latest update of mountain lion with VO and a Brailleconnect 32 bluetooth display. My braille translation table is just plain english but the problem persisted even when I switched to UEB. Has anyone run into a similar problem? What settings might I change to fix this? Thanks for any help. Best, Greg -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: problem reading brf files on mac
Hi, Greg, Go into vO Utility, Braille, layout tab and turn on eight-dot Braille. This should fix the problem. This checkbox only appears when contractions are turned off. Also, another reason contractions have to be turned off is that the file has already been translated. In the case of brf files from NLS, the text is all upper-case, so you may want to go to edit/transformations once you highlight all the text and make it lower-case. HtH, Teresa On Aug 3, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, It's been a while since I tried to read a brf on my mac using a braille display. I thought that I should be able to open it in text edit and turn off braille contractions and be good to go, but for some reason that isn't working right. For some reason VO isn't representing the braille symbols correctly. Dropped symbols, such as the symbol for con or in have a number sign in front of them, as if they were the numbers 3 and 9. It mangles other contractions even worse. As far as I can tell, this is a VO or braille display problem and not just bad transcription. I can't actually navigate to the number sign in front of these symbols, which tells me there isn't actually a number sign in the brf file. I tried it with two files, a book from BARD and a practice exam from the National Certification in Literary Braille Test. Both had the same problems. I'm running the latest update of mountain lion with VO and a Brailleconnect 32 bluetooth display. My braille translation table is just plain english but the problem persisted even when I switched to UEB. Has anyone run into a similar problem? What settings might I change to fix this? Thanks for any help. Best, Greg -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: problem reading brf files on mac
'This worked beautifully. I knew that uncontracted was what I wanted, I just missed the eight dot option. Thanks for the tip on capitalization as well. -Greg On Aug 3, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Greg, Go into vO Utility, Braille, layout tab and turn 'on eight-dot Braille. This should fix the problem. This checkbox only appears when contractions are turned off. Also, another reason contractions have to be turned off is that the file has already been translated. In the case of brf files from NLS, the text is all upper-case, so you may want to go to edit/transformations once you highlight all the text and make it lower-case. HtH, Teresa On Aug 3, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, It's been a while since I tried to read a brf on my mac using a braille display. I thought that I should be able to open it in text edit and turn off braille contractions and be good to go, but for some reason that isn't working right. For some reason VO isn't representing the braille symbols correctly. Dropped symbols, such as the symbol for con or in have a number sign in front of them, as if they were the numbers 3 and 9. It mangles other contractions even worse. As far as I can tell, this is a VO or braille display problem and not just bad transcription. I can't actually navigate to the number sign in front of these symbols, which tells me there isn't actually a number sign in the brf file. I tried it with two files, a book from BARD and a practice exam from the National Certification in Literary Braille Test. Both had the same problems. I'm running the latest update of mountain lion with VO and a Brailleconnect 32 bluetooth display. My braille translation table is just plain english but the problem persisted even when I switched to UEB. Has anyone run into a similar problem? What settings might I change to fix this? Thanks for any help. Best, Greg -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
