[Menvi-discuss] Reading brf files

[Jeanie Willis]

Hi,

 

Thought I'd answer Ruby's question in a new thread as it relates to wider
than the exam pieces we were discussing and others might be interested.

 

Yes you can open brf files in Duxbury (but not its free version Perky Duck).
You can also open them in Sao Mai Braille (SMB) and I think Braille Zephyr
from American Printing House will also open them, but I haven't got it
working with NVDA and Sao Mai currently doesn't work with NVDA either, so
only JAWS.

 

What kind of Braille display do you have?  I have found two settings that
can be of help with brf.  When I'm using NVDA with the Braille extender add
on installed there is a brf mode.  This mode helps display brf correctly.
Without it it is ok to read, but does add in some additional 456 345
characters which apparently relate to capitalisation and other formatting.
They do not emboss, but do show on the display unless you use the brf mode.

 

I also have my screen reader set to North American Computer Braille and then
have used another NVDA Braille extender feature to supress dots 7 & 8 and
this displays music perfectly in Duxbury and Good Feel.

 

Bill had also said that it might be possible if you have a brf file to
rename the extension to .gf for good feel instead of .brf and then open it
in Good Feel.  I haven't tested this.  But also remember that Good Feel is
really only designed to view the Braille before embossing and make small
changes, it really doesn't work as an editor to open and save multiple
times.

 

As Ella mentioned before.  All of this only works with a Braille display as
screen readers can't read out Braille in a way that makes any sense.  It can
kind of read out literary in something like notepad if you know what the
Aski characters are, but this is practically impossible for music, you would
have to have a super super brain to be remembering and interpreting things
like a number sign being an er which is an F crotchet.

 

Jeanie

 

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