Hi there You need to change 8 dot braille and see what that does. It is handled differently by VoiceOver than some other screen readers. So, turn 8 dot braille on. Then you do the following thing in TextEdit, making sure you make a copy of your file first in case you mess this up.
Select all your text. Select all your text with command a. Press vo m to bring up the menu. Then right arrow until you hear EDIT. Go down arrow until you hear transformations. It is close to the last one, so up arrow might work. Choose make lower case. This will take out all the captabbization, but it will not mess up your braille file. It will read perfectly fine because braille is not dependent upon showing upper case that way it is in print. You have a few occurences of the dot 7 and 8 like on the er signs, but it will make your file easier to read. Some people don't care about that, but I do, and if you have not read braille for a while, I think you will too. Some of the other settings you have mentioned have nothing to do with display the braille. For instance, turning automatic translation on and off has to do with input and not output. With dots 7 and 8 turned on, you will get what other programs call computer braille, and that will enable you to display braille correctly. If you were in a text file and not a braille file, you can turn dots 7 and 8 off and get grade 1 braille. This is on my wish list to get changed in Yosemite, but in the meantime, you can do these procedures. You will see control characters at the end of your lines, and you will need to ignore them. Mavericks does not allow, at least I haven't found it, for you to turn on and off the displaying of control characters. Gigi On Sep 6, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Daniel Smith <dcsmitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello fellow visionaries, > I'm having some issues reading a textbook on my braille display, and would > appreciate some feedback. I'm on a Macbook pro with Mavericks, and using a > brand new Focus 40 Blue. Additionally, I'm attempting to read the file on > either Nisus Writer Pro or Text Edit. THe settings under "Braille" in > Voiceover Utility are configured as followed: > Contracted braille is off, 8-dot braille is off, automatic braille > translation is off. > This is my first braille display, and frankly my first time in a few years > reading braille extensively. That being said, due to the availability and > nature of the book (it's an ancient Greek grammar) the braille display was > the best option. > I've found it generally easy to use except when reading the brf file. Certain > things are not being properly converted. For example, the author's name, N. > Clayton Croy, is display with an n, the number sign, and the number four, as > the print document is displaying "n4" > This trend continues throughout the text, with several things being displayed > seemingly incorrect on the Focus 40. > So I guess there are a few things on the table here: > 1. Are my settings properly configured to read brf files? > 2. Can brf files be successfully read in a word processor? Is there better > software for such tasks? > 3. Is there a particular file type that the brf must be? (right now its being > called a "web archive" by VO). > > I very much appreciate all your feedback. > Cheers, > Daniel C. Smith > > -- > 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.
