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.

Reply via email to