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Re: cleaning braille files

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From: Michael Bullis
Date: Mar 28, 2016 5:20PM

I've used Word and a couple of different notepad apps. I'm just lazy because it takes a while to do the macros one at a time.
The files are either brf or txt usually.


Michael Bullis
Executive Director,
The IMAGE Center of Maryland
300 E. Joppa Road,
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Towson MD
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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Kelly Lupo
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] cleaning braille files

What kind of file is it? I am assuming it is a text-based format of some kind (such as notepad or Word)? What program are you using to do this manually?

I'm not quite familiar with many electronic braille notetakers, so I'm not sure how you're currently doing what you're doing. :) But I wonder if Word has macros which you could set up to run the find/replace, (if you're using word already). (I know Excel does, never tried with Word.)

Kelly

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> On Mar 28, 2016, at 6:25 PM, Michael Bullis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> This is an accessibility question but perhaps not quite on point for
> this list.
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> From time to time I need to read very lengthy documents in braille on
> my electronic braille notetaker.
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> In order to make the process much more enjoyable I clean the file by
> removing paragraph symbols, end of line feeds, rows of dashes, spaces,
> slashes or stars.
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> When finished, I have a file that requires far fewer line advances as
> I read along and one that uses the full width of the braille display.
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> My process for cleaning is rather cumbersome, requiring the creation
> of several search and replace strings that I run manually. I'm
> wondering if anyone on the list knows of a piece of software that
> might have been created that does what I'm doing by hand?
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> Thanks in advance for your continued good works. I'm mostly a lurker
> but do learn much.
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> Michael Bullis
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> Executive Director,
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> The IMAGE Center of Maryland
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> 300 E. Joppa Road,
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> Suite 312
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> Towson MD
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> 21286
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> Email: <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> > <EMAIL REMOVED>
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> Office: 443-275-9394
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> Cell: 443-286-9001
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> Website: www.imagemd.org
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