Stanza is also available for the Mac. Louis? I'll have to check into that. I hope it's in the app store so that I don't have to go digging for it. Thank you for the tip about braille translation on the Mac! I have a few brf files I have saved on my Braille Edge that I'd like to put on the Mac. This seems like the only solution.
Scott On 1/19/13, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > It will only work on a Braille display. Speech will make gibberish out of > it. > > Teresa > > > Visualize whirled peas. > > On Jan 19, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Russ Kiehne <russ94...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You would have to use some thing like WinBT to back translate them. >> >> -----Original Message----- 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 >> >> >> >> >> Tune into my show, moopie's mix, every Thursday morning at 2 UTC or 10 PM >> Eastern on the Global Voice Internet Radio, >> http://www.theglobalvoice.info. Moopie's Mix can also be downloaded from >> the program gallery on that site. >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> Visualize whirled peas. >> >> 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 >> >> >> 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? 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