Hi Sarah,
If I am understanding you correctly, the BrailleNote BT supports eight-dot
computer Braille. If you have a BT model, go to the options menu from within
a file. GO to keyboard settings and you should see an option for changing
computer Braille entry from six-dot to eight-dot Braille. Unfortunately, I
have not found this possible with my BrailleNote QT but have been able to
work around this problem by assigning macros to unicode characters I use
often. I don't know if this will matter to you since I don't know whether
you use a BT or QT model.
Lindsay
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] french braille?
Yes, I thought it was odd that I had the French language option when I do
not have any languages other than English installed. I really wondered what
all the options in the list were about. One Braille language table seems to
be Braille, which is a bit to generic for me to have a guess what it is.
I noticed that I had an option just below the French language option for
computer braille language. That I do find extremely useful, so I am glad it
is an option for Braille Notes even when another speech language is not
installed. I went to a website and switched to Spanish after turning my
braille grade to computer braille. It was nice to see Spanish displayed
correctly instead of seeing words with all the accented characters
completely missing. Now it's just too bad that I don't know how to write in
Spanish computer braille, since the braille note seems to expect 8 dot
braille or something. That is really something that should be an option, so
that 6 or 8 dot could be used in other languages.
It also would be nice if even when set to grade II English the translation
would be done correctly for accented characters. Dot 4 in front of a letter
is not the most informative thing, but it is correct and a lot better than
having those accented characters completely ignored. :-)
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
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