[Menvi-discuss] Reading brf files

[ruby alphonse]

Thank you Jeanie, How well and clearly you express and write, I think
you have a gift of writing. Thank you really that helps.

Ruby.

On 6/7/23, Jeanie Willis via Menvi-discuss <menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:
> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I also have my screen reader set to North American Computer Braille and
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> have used another NVDA Braille extender feature to supress dots 7 & 8 and
> this displays music perfectly in Duxbury and Good Feel.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Jeanie
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