[Menvi-discuss] Braille Display with .brf Files

[Dale Lieser]

Thank you, David. I, too, use Windows XP. I'll try what you suggest. I do
not care for Notepad particularly, since it does not automatically maximize
when opened. Changing the file extension might work for me. Do you think HJ
Pad, which comes in JAWS would serve any purpose in this? It's features are
somewhat better, although it, too, has quirks.

 

Dale

 

 

From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of
David Goldstein - Resource Center
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:10 PM
To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Braille Display with .brf Files

 

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 <mailto:dale.lieser at gmail.com>  

To: 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy'
<mailto:menvi-discuss at menvi.org>  

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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