Teresa, thanks so much! Since I have a pile of these, it's nice to know that I will be able to read them now! I am loving the brilliant! Cait
On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Teresa Cochran <batsfly...@me.com> wrote: > Yes, you can. You can only read them on a Braille display, as speech will be > gibberish. Also, brf files are all upper-case, so you might want to take the > dot-7 characters out. If you choose to do this, select all text, go into the > edit menu, choose transformations, and choose lower case. Another issue with > many brf files is that the carriage returns and line feeds are visible, and > since the lines are only 40 characters long for Braille formatting, this can > be a pain. I've tried removing the carriage returns, but then lose my natural > line endings. anyway, there's a certain amount of tweaking that will not > create perfection, but will allow you to choose the way you want it displayed. > > HtH, > teresa > > "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan > > On Apr 15, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have a bunch of brf files that I'd like to read on my mac. >> >> How do I do this? Can I just open them up in text edit? >> thanks! >> Cait >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.