Hi, gigi, I am using Lion, and I don't find much difference between upper- and lower-case brf files in uncontracted Braille. Any uncommon symbols are rendered spelled out as in "star" for ch sign, etc.
As for global search and replace, here's what you do. Highlight the symbol you want to replace. Copy it. Alternatively, you might try skipping the copy step and typing in the control character with your Braille display. Go into search and replace with command-option-f. (or you can find it in the edit menu under the "find" submenu. It's best to navigate this dialog with VO-right-arrow, as the tab key seems to be unreliable here. In the first edit box, paste in your character to be replaced. If you want to replace it with nothing, i.e. remove it, just leave the next edit box blank. Make sure the replace checkbox is checked. VO-right till you get to the "all" button and hit it with VO-space. There is no real audible indication that anything has been done, but the character has been globally removed. HTH, Teresa On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > 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. 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