Ottawa Canada Dear Terri, Maurice, Joe and list:
I don't think either Humanware or Duxbury would have anything to gain by breaking the grade 2 US Braille translation and back translation table. They would stand to lose the respect of their customers if it were ever discovered they had knowingly done this. I've been in touch with some people in Christchurch who seem to read and respond to their e-mail on a weekend and I'm certain they, together with the folks at Duxbury Systems will fully cooperate with each other to quickly fix the broken Braille translator and back translator. ItÂ’s a long weekend here in Canada and the USA so let's give them some time to work on repairs. Rome wasn't built in a day and it took a while for its builders to fix their mistakes. Brian Brian K. Lingard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: ve3yiab2ji15 tel: +1 (613) 247-0665 New York NY Tel +1 (646) 797-2862 FAX +1 (613) 247-9998 -----Original Message----- From: Terri Pannett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 4:55 PM To: Brian Lingard; BrailleNote List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Braillenote] KeySoft 7.5 Back Translation Problems: Contractionsin Emails disappearing. Dear Brian, I don't think Duxbury would break their own table, but I think HumanWare had something to gain by doing so. I hope I'm wrong about Humanware. I think HumanWare should stop issuing 7.5 until all of the issues are straightened out. They should help anyone who wants to go back to 7.2 to do so and they should refund all charges until things are straightened out. Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Lingard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BrailleNote List" <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:22 PM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] KeySoft 7.5 Back Translation Problems: Contractionsin Emails disappearing. > Ottawa Canada > > Dear Terri and list: > > No, I don't think Humanware, or Duxbury who wrote the Braille > translator and back translator would knowingly break the U. S. > Braille translation table to require everyone to use UEB. > > I know some of the folks at Duxbury personally, and they wouldn't > do something like that! > > Now would everyone please calm themselves, take a deep breath, > count to ten then fully exhale and repeat the deep-breath and > ten-count until they feel much more calm and collected~! > > It is obvious someone didn't fully test the back translation > function of the Duxbury Braille Translator in all Braille tables. > > So maybe the Beta testers were mostly speech users or people who > never back translate. > > As previously stated by a few people here, KeySoft and Duxbury > are very complex programs and having worked in computers, I can > tell you that even in big programs for big mainframe computers > like the government use, serious bugs often go unnoticed for > years as no one thought of using a particular combination of > options before! > > It is a long weekend in Canada and the USA, so please cut > Humanware some slack! > > Honest, they mean well! 7.5 appears to have been worth waiting > for and I'm certain Duxbury and Humanware will get right onto it > Tuesday, September 4 for Duxbury, and Monday, September 3 for > Humanware! > > Rome wasn't built in a day and it took a while for the builders > to fix their mistakes! > > Brian > Brian K. Lingard > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype: ve3yiab2ji15 > tel: +1 (613) 247-0665 > New York NY Tel +1 (646) 797-2862 > FAX +1 (613) 247-9998 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.13.1/982 - Release Date: 31/08/2007 5:21 PM ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. 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
