Ah, thanks. So how would I convert a pages file to HTML? I didn't think Pages could export to HTML.
Devin Prater Sent from my iPod 5. iMessage, facebook, and face-time: devinpra...@live.com email: d.pra...@me.com Google Talk/keychat: r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com > On Apr 17, 2014, at 8:12, Teresa Cochran <batsfly...@me.com> wrote: > > If you convert a file to html, louis will convert it to brf. That makes > sense, since the markup is text as well. Going the other way is a little more > problematic. Half the time Louis interprets braille italics as dots 4-6 in > computer braille, putting a period before each word instead. > > Personally, even with programs such as Kurzweil, I always found back > translation to be less than desirable. There are too many variables, and > sometimes there are strange results with it. Saying this as primarily a > braille reader, there are very many more books available in audio and other > formats than in Braille. In my personal experience, I've started keeping brf > files in their format and using a Braille display to type in them, rather > than back-translating. Of course, I have the luxury of having a braille > display. > > Teresa > > Teresa Cochran > batsfly...@me.com > Facebook > >> On Apr 17, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote: >> >> In my experience, it can't work well with italics or any other kind of >> formatting. It only works with plain text files. >> >> Devin Prater >> Sent from my iPod 5. >> iMessage, facebook, and face-time: devinpra...@live.com >> email: d.pra...@me.com >> Google Talk/keychat: r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com >> >>> On Apr 16, 2014, at 18:49, Teresa Cochran <batsfly...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28601/louis >>> >>> Teresa >>> >>> On the other hand, there are different fingers. >>> >>> On Apr 16, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Jim Gatteys <jgatt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Where do you get Louis? >>>> jg >>>> >>>>> On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:22 PM, Teresa Cochran <batsfly...@me.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Yes, it can. Louis can also be used to do this. >>>>> >>>>> NFBTrans is a command-line application. This build has to be compiled and >>>>> installed, and I still have to learn to do this. There are instructions >>>>> in the readMe file, but they assume some knowledge of command-line. So as >>>>> for my own situation, I'll probably stick with Louis, as this build of >>>>> NFBTrans has DOS and unix files all mixed together and needs more >>>>> tweaking than I know how to do. >>>>> >>>>> Teresa >>>>> >>>>> "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan >>>>> >>>>>> On Apr 16, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> can that translator work the other way? I would like to take plain text >>>>>> or text PDF files and convert them for reading on my Braille Sense U2. I >>>>>> know that the U2 can read text files directly, but it would be helpful >>>>>> for other things (including helping the NLS get more braille books). >>>>>> >>>>>> -eric >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:17 AM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Date: Apr 15 06:40PM -0400 >>>>>>> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/msg/520b3a19132af757 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi. >>>>>>> You may want to look at >>>>>>> http://www.softcon.com/mac/unix/Index.html >>>>>>> It has a copy of NFBTrans seemingly compiled for OSX. NFBTrans is a >>>>>>> braille translator, allowing BRF files to be translated into text. 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