Attached is a simple program which can be used for viewing Grade 2 files
such as those on Web-Braille and bookshare. To compile it type
gcc -o brffilt brffilt.c
As the name suggests, this is a filter. It takes input from stdin, changes
capitals to lower-case and characters like [ to {, and then puts it out to
stdout. To use it, type something like
<bookname brffilt |less
You can also direct the output to a file. Change to 6-dot braille when
using brltty to turn off translation. You can then read the book using the
ordinary l;ess commands. If you use the screen utility, you can keep
several books open at once and return to them as you wish.
Hope this is of some use.
John
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#include <stdio.h>
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int ch = 0;
while ((ch = getchar ()) != EOF)
{
if (ch == '[' || ch == '\\' || ch == '^' || ch == ']' || ch == '@'
|| (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z'))
ch |= 32;
if (ch == 12) /*form-feed */
continue;
putchar (ch);
}
return 0;
}