You would have to use some thing like WinBT to back translate them.
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From: Moop Curran
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 3:33 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
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 <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com>
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 <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com>
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
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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
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