Hi there. The Braille Edge 40 accepts text files and braille files that end in brf and brl. I have sent an rtf file to it by changing the extension on Mac first. Then I took out the coding, and it worked fine.
Child Whatever the extension is is whatever the Braille Edge thinks it is. It doesn't translate anything. There is a program for the Mac called Louis, as in Louis Braille. I think that it is Share Ware or free or something. It was given to me, and I have translated files successfully from text files to grade 2. I've had some trouble doing it the other way around, and maybe somebody here can tell mehow to do that better. The reason your files opened as grade 2 showing up on the braille display is because VoiceOver has a translator, so if it's an rtf file or a txt file, VoiceOver is happy to show them to you in either format. I just translated a file by hand (since I couldn't figure out how to get Louis to do it) a file that was in Grade 2. I did it with the dictation feature, and it didn't take me that long to do it. I dictated text and then deleted out the grade 2 text. I would like to add that I made a copy of the file first before I got started. I started out editing the text, but that took too long. The dictation feature, however, made it work fine. Necessity is the mother of invention, they say, and I was sort of desperate, and I had already spent some time with Louis to get it to work. So, I just did it my way. Hope this helps. Gigi On Feb 21, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Mark Baxter <markbaxte...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a lot of longer writing projects that are in either text or RTF files > on my Mac. I can transfer them over to the Braille Edge 40 via the SD card > and sneaker-net, but when I open them on the Edge, they're grade 1 Braille. > I'd like to read them in grade II and edit them more precisely, but since > these files are not grade II translated files, it's kind of a pain to edit > them this way. > > Is there a way to translate these files to grade II? Or, is there a way to > force the Braille Edge 40 to open them as grade II files? I"m asking here > because I've used the Edge successfully as a BT keyboard and display for my > MBP, where the files are, and when I did this, they always opened as grade II > files. Curious what I must do to prepare these files for transfer. > Thanks. > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com > • My home page: > • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
