RE: Difference between .brf and .brl files
- From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:19:08 -0400
The formatting codes in those .brf files when done with duxbury at least
start out with a $ followed by non-blank characters and end with a blank
character. Those files are the equivalent of compositor's tapes for
braille books and would be run through classes of braille production
equipment like the elinfa and led120. Those files can be any grade of
braille but will have $g2 for Grade 2 braille as one of their first
format codes to tell the equipment how to operate. If a user has
duxbury on their computer, along with a dumb electronic brailler they
can run the .brf file through duxbury and out the printer port. Duxbury
would then take control of the dumb electronic brailler and produce
correctly formatted braille. As a consequence of the formatting codes
.brf files are larger than .brl files based on this overhead. If a user
downloads and uses a .brl file which is one long line, they can also run
that through duxbury and set duxbury up with another file to control how
that .brl file gets brailled. That's been a long time since I had any
contact with duxbury.
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wolfgang
Hubert
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 14:04
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Subject: Re: Difference between .brf and .brl files
Hi Jamal,
BRF stands for "formatted braille", which means that the file is ready
to print in a certain format like 30 cells by 27 lines, whereas BRL
files are often files with just one long line per paragraph. This is
what I have seen at some libraries which offer files to download.
Wolfgang
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