[Blindmath] Braille display

Rose Engstrom engs0006 at umn.edu
Mon Sep 19 17:24:26 UTC 2011


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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Rose Engstrom	
Document Conversion Assistant
Disability Services
University of Minnesota
McNamara Alumni Center, Suite 180
200 Oak Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-2002
Voice: (612) 624-2650
http://ds.umn.edu/

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