[Blindmath] Braille display

Mon Sep 19 17:55:40 UTC 2011

The braille display is not recognizing Apple's choice of newline 
characters. do you have some way of changing your files so they use the 
dos newline sequence? That would probably solve the problem. I've used 
the Mac a lot, but I don't know where to find such a feature. It would 
be equivalent to the Unix unix2dos program.

The new BrailleBlaster software will be very good for Braille 
transcription, including Nemeth. If you want to try  it go to 
http://www.brailleblaster.org and download the Mac build. The software 
is still in a very early stage of developmennt. The GUI needs a lot of 
work, but read the getting-started.txt file for instructions on using 
the translate subscommand.

John

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:24:26PM -0500, Rose Engstrom wrote:
> The student is having a problem accessing the Nemeth files I have been 
> sending him since upgrading to Mac OS X Lion? I will refer the student 
> to apple. I was hoping for a quick easy answer from all you extremely 
> intelligent folks. (smile).:-)
> 
> thanks for you help.
> 
> On 9/19/2011 12:18 PM, Susan Mooney wrote:
> >She is only having the problem with your .BRFs?  never had the problem
> >before your formatted files?
> >
> >SM
> >
> >On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Rose Engstrom<engs0006 at umn.edu>  wrote:
> >
> >>Yes i would be able to do that but my concern is reformatting all the math
> >>files for a 39 cell line instead of 40 and also making a less universal 
> >>file
> >>since 40 cells is the norm. I have never heard of a BRF and braille
> >>displaying doing this. Does anyone know of the problem that the student is
> >>referring to?
> >>
> >>Rosee
> >>
> >>On 9/19/2011 8:59 AM, Susan Mooney wrote:
> >>
> >>>What braille program are you using?  You can do that in your layout
> >>>section
> >>>by simply changing the right margin from 40 to 39.
> >>>
> >>>SM
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Rose Engstrom<engs0006 at umn.edu>   wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  Hello Everyone,
> >>>>I am transcribing a book for a student who just has just made the
> >>>>following
> >>>>request:
> >>>>
> >>>>Is it possible to create the  BRF files you send me with a maximum
> >>>>line length of 39 characters instead of 40? I have determined that the
> >>>>end of line character that the embosser BRF format is taking up a
> >>>>space/character position on the Braille display and thus needs to be
> >>>>accounted for.
> >>>>
> >>>>I know it is possible to format the page for different lengths, but has
> >>>>anyone ever heard of this problem and/or can anyone shed some light on
> >>>>this
> >>>>for me?
> >>>>
> >>>>Thank you,
> >>>>Rose Engstrom
> >>>>
> >>>>
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