Global Search And Replace in Text-Edit, Was Re: brf Web Braille files

2011-09-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
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 repla

Re: brf Web Braille files

2011-09-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
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 wr

Re: brf Web Braille files

2011-09-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
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

Re: brf Web Braille files

2011-09-27 Thread Eugenia Firth
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 gi

Re: brf Web Braille files

2011-09-26 Thread Teresa Cochran
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 t

brf Web Braille files

2011-09-26 Thread Eugenia Firth
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