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Re: cleaning braille files

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Apr 11, 2016 8:06AM

might be useful.
if you decide to do it perhaps using the Linear Braille code
http://www.brailleauthority.org/linear/linear1987.TXT

as replacements for formatting.

Jim

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Thad C < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > From time to time I need to read very lengthy documents in braille on my
> > electronic braille notetaker.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your continued good works. I'm mostly a lurker but
> > do
> > learn much.
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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