[duxuser] Re: Reading and Preparing .brf files
- From: Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 14:22:50 -0400 (EDT)
Hi, Bill,
The question is a good one.
1. As George says, any software coding specific to braille
translators or word processors is removed.
2. A .brf file can be embossed immediately. No translation is
required. The layout of the original file remains intact. This is
particularly helpful if the file contains columnar or tabular material
which needs to appear exactly and precisely as it was originally produced.
Extra spaces are not compressed. Blank lines remain blank and so forth.
3. The .brf files can be embossed on any braille embosser. They
can also be read on any refreshable braille display.
4. .brf files can be opened and read in any word processor or
opened in a braille translator such as DBT.
5. .brf files can be edited in a word processor, saved again as
plain text and shared with others.
6. A .brf file can be redrawn to create different line lengths or
paper sizes. This does take work but it can definitely be done without
destroying important features of the original layout.
7. In the case of Optical Braille Recognition, .brf files in other
languages or other alphabets can be scanned without risk of losing accent
marks or other languange/alhabet-specific data.
If you are working with .brf files, you do need to know the
characters per line and lines per page of the specific file. You also need
to know about any idiosyncracies of your braillle embosser. For example,
if you have an Index embosser such as the Everest or Basic D and you wish
to emboss braille on both sides of a page, the embosser must be set to one
line more than you plan to emboss. a 25-line page would be set to 26 lines
on your embosser.
8. Anyone who can use the embosser and who has been instructed can
emboss any .brf file.
I probably left out something very simple and obvious, but those
are some of the reasons why .brf files are still is use in spite of the
pressure to work in media more familiar to the sighted.
Catherine
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