Hi Teresa. Well, I guess we both can check it out. My problem was when I chose the menu for replacing, it appeared to go back to the text. This meant that when I pressed what I thought was the text to replace, all of my text got deleted or it added text into the file. This meant I was in the wrong place, and I couldn't figure out how to get to the right place. When I feel like it, I will try to figure it out, unless any of you guys out the can tell me how to do global replaces in TextEdit.
Regards, Gigi On Sep 27, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Text-edit does have a find and replace dialog with an "all" button in it. I > haven't tried working with it yet, but it looks pretty straightforward. > > Teresa > On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >> Hi Teresa. >> I haven't tried yet to global replace control characters. In my case I have >> to keep a brf file the way it is. Actually, I haven't yet figured out >> exactly how to do global replaces in TextEdit. I have Pages also, but I have >> to switched to TextEdit for most of my files because it has given me less >> grief. >> >> Regards, >> Gigi >> >> On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:49 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> >>> Hi, Gigi, >>> >>> Thanks a lot for the heads-up. I will check this out. I'm wondering if you >>> couldn't do a search-and-replace with a brf file in text-edit and remove >>> the control characters that way. Another entirely different way to go about >>> it might be to use Louis and back-translate the file into a text file. Of >>> course, the Braille formatting would probably be lost, and I must admit >>> that I like the pretty spacing and paragraphs very much. >>> >>> HTh, >>> Teresa >>> On Sep 26, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Guys. >>>> We've had some discussion before and had decided we couldn't read grade 2 >>>> files on our Macs. Well, I just did it. To make it more readable, the file >>>> I had first came out all in uppercase. I first selected all the text. I >>>> had some bad moments at first when I tried to do a global replace and >>>> almost erased all the text. However, I finally went into edit and chose >>>> Transformations. One of the choices was to make the file lower case. If >>>> you do that, the brf file is easier to read. The only thing is, and it's >>>> really pretty minor, that I haven't figured out how to turn off the >>>> control characters if you just want to read the file. I like them when I'm >>>> editing, but I used to turn them off on the Braille Lite when reading. >>>> When I withurned speech off, I was able to read it just fine. >>>> >>>> I think a lot of Web braille files, if I remember, end in cell 38, so that >>>> will mean that, for the most part, the control characters will just show >>>> up in cell 39 and 40. >>>> >>>> For those out there who want to read braille music, it might work just >>>> fine this way, too. I'm not an expert on that subject. >>>> Regards, >>>> Gigi >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
