[nfbcs] Braille file help.

[Dean Martineau]

Everett is right; this can be totally solved with regular expressions.  You
could mostly solve it without them as well.  Let's take your example of John
3:16.  First, we have to know that we're working with contracted Braille,
and how that is represented on the computer.  The 3 will obviously be a c,
and the number sign is the same character.  Fortunately, in contracted
Braille, one never runs into a combination of a c followed by a ble sign,
which of course is also represented by the number sign.  Hence, in any text
editor with a search and replace feature, you could find all occurrences of
c# and replace them with c3 (the 3 is the character used to represent the
contracted Braille colon. That will solve the 3-16 problem.  Similar brute
force could be used to solve all but verses found in chapters 1 5 and 9,
since those characters are represented by vowels and they could be followed
by a ble sign.  For this, and for a more elegant solution, you need regular
expressions.

Dean


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of E.J. Zufelt
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:10 PM
To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Braille file help.

Good afternoon Alan,

You are probably going to need to use a good document editor that supports 
find and replace with regular expressions.

If you want you can send me this file, off list, and I will take a look and 
see if I can do this for you.

HTH,
Everett


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Wheeler" <awheeler at neb.rr.com>
To: "NFBCS list" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:55 PM
Subject: [nfbcs] Braille file help.


>I have a .brf (grade two braille) file and the big problem I have is this. 
>It is a Christian book with scripture references.  The main problem is that

>within these references they put a number sign where a colon ought to go. 
>In other words, instead of writing John3:16 in braille, they write John 
>(number sign) 3 (number sign) 16.  I want to quickly fix this file so that 
>there are colons where the second number sign is.  How do I do this without

>having to do it manually, number sign by number sign?
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