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Re: cleaning braille files

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From: Thad C
Date: Apr 7, 2016 7:44PM

Greetings group.

I am looking at developing some open source projects and repos. Would the
creation of a macro that executed this functionality be useful for people?
On Mar 28, 2016 3:25 PM, "Michael Bullis" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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