Dear Ann, Your comments are excellent, but I have one correction. The proper grade of braille to use for computer braille is grade 0. Grade 1 uses different symbols for its punctuation than grade 0. For example, grade 1 uses dots 2,5,6 for a period, but grade 0 uses dots 4,6; a colon in grade 1 is dots 2,5 but in grade 0 it's dots 1,5,6; the semicolon is dots 2,3 in grade 1 and dots 1,5,6 in grade 0, etc.
Computer braille can be written in 6 or 8 dots using the BN. There isn't a way to write 8 dot braille using a brailler or slate. I may add here that any braille written in computer braille on a BN will be recognized by the full version of Duxbury. Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann K. Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 4:17 AM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Comments and Feature suggestions. : Hi all, : : You need to write in grade I for web and email addresses because there : are symbols in such things which are exclusive to web and email : addresses. Remember that a computer is *not* a human being and it : must be told how to parse (make sense of) the symbols. Braille only : has a finite number of ways to combine the six dots. Many of these : combinations are used in several different ways depending on the : situation. Do you remember Isaac complaining that the list of web : addresses I put up here was "dirty", and had many errors in it? That : is because it was taken from a Braille File which had been improperly : written. : : Because a computer or BN is a literal beasty, you have to tell it that : this next little bit is a URL or email address. You can't change this : behavior, not unless you find some way to put a human brain in a : BrailleNote. Think of it like communicating with someone who speaks : French. You need to speak French to that person if you want them to : understand important information, especially if their English is not : too good. <smile> : : Ann P. : : -- : Ann K. Parsons : email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp : Skype: Putertutor : "All that is gold does not glitter. : Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT : : : ___ : To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit : http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote : : : __________ NOD32 1.1328 (20051219) Information __________ : : This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. : http://www.eset.com : :
