[nfbcs] Braille file help.

[E.J. Zufelt]

Good evening Dean,

If you know, can you explain why the numbers are preceeded by the number 
sign?

Thanks,
Everett


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Martineau" <dean at topdotenterprises.com>
To: "'NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Braille file help.


> 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>
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> 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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