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 <motte...@gmail.com> 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 > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
