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From: Michael Bullis
Date: Apr 11, 2016 10:23AM

I should have clarified in my original request that what I do to braille files is for casual use only. I wouldn't use it for books with tables or poetry where line formatting is important.
All I use this for is novels or nonfiction that isn't technical. I wouldn't use it for math.
In other words, I call it junk braille reformatting so I can use the full braille line on my braille display. It's handy if I'm turning a document I have created on a word processor into something I might need to use with an audience where I need to read specific lengthy passages.
The things that I do are---more than three occurrences of dashes, * (stars), all tabs, paragraph symbols, linefeed symbols, carriage returns.
Removing heading indicators would also be useful.
An example would be that I sometimes get a rather lengthy document off the internet that I can quickly convert to Braille on my notetaker. When it converts all of the above things are there. When the braille display sees a linefeed or paragraph symbol, (often used at the ends of lines for formatting purposes although unnecessary), my braille display is left blank for the rest of the line, no matter where it is, causing me to have to advance the braille display to see the next block of text.

Again, all of this is just to make a document more easily readable on a braille display and would not be useful for documents in which formatting is important.

Thanks for any effort you make in this regard. I'm sure many of my colleagues would use it if it was simple.

Michael Bullis
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