[Menvi-discuss] Braille Display with .brf Files

[David Goldstein - Resource Center]

Hi Dale,

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.  

  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.

  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.

  There have been some braille viewing programs developed, but I have never found any of them really useful.

  David
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dale Lieser 
  To: 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy' 
  Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 9:41 AM
  Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Braille Display with .brf Files


  Hello, Everyone,

   

  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?

   

  Thank you for your help. You cannot over-explain. <smile> Detail is best.

   

  Dale

   



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