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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Dale,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are some other things you might think about
doing to make reading braille files easier. Notepad is kind of okay, and
it will work if that's the only text editor you have. What they used to
tell you to do with Web-Braille was to set up a file association, so that any
time you were in Windows Explorer and pushed Enter on the filename, it would
open in your editor. It's probably different with each operating system,
but in my Windows XP, you can either go through the process of setting up an
association through Windows Explorer, or you can see what happens if you push
Enter on the file. It's likely a message will come up asking you what
program you want to use. Once you select Notepad, unless you uncheck a box
that is checked by default, it will always open in
Notepad. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">One problem with reading braille this way is
that when you finish reading the lines on the screen, you need to push page
down and then get your display up to the first line. Usually, displays
have a way of getting the display back to where the cursor is. I'm not
sure how one does that with a PACmate display.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Sometimes I have changed the extension of the
.brf file to htm and then opened it in Internet Explorer. If you don't
care about formatting, you can read forever without needing to page
down.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">There have been some braille viewing programs
developed, but I have never found any of them really useful.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">David</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dale.lieser@gmail.com href="mailto:dale.lieser@gmail.com">Dale
Lieser</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=menvi-discuss@menvi.org
href="mailto:menvi-discuss@menvi.org">'This is for discussing music and
braille literacy'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 19, 2013 9:41
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Menvi-discuss] Braille Display
with .brf Files</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Hello, Everyone,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Back in the days of the Bookport I did whatever the
manufacturer recommended to do concerning setting the file association of .brf
files (digital braille) so that Web-Braille material, etc., would go right to
the transfer software. Presently, I have a small braille display and a
PacMate. I would rather read braille files directly from my laptop, instead of
having to put them on the PacMate. Which setting(s) would I need to execute in
order to do that?, and in which program would the braille files
open?<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Thank you for your help. You cannot over-explain.
<smile> Detail is best.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Dale<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
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