Ottawa Canada Read below for what Mr. Joe Sullivan at Duxbury Systems has to say about the back translation bugs: -- Original message -- From: Joe Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 11:19 AM To: Brian Lingard Subject: Re: Bugs in KS 7.5 Braille to text back translation
Hi Brian, Thanks for bringing these problems to our attention. At the moment (the morning of Monday, September 3rd), we at Duxbury are in the last day of a 3-day holiday weekend (our Labor Day), so the office is closed and communication with us and even among us is likely to go unnoticed until tomorrow. (I just happened to check my email for other reasons.) As you suggest, if Humanware does not immediately spot the source of the problem, then they'll surely be in touch with us and we'll be glad to work with them to track it down and together we'll make it right for everybody. I imagine it will be easy, because the reported problems are so large and pervasive that it's almost certainly something basic and simple that is going wrong. From the symptoms, my guess is that something we call the "state" is not being preserved correctly through the translation. For example, dot 6 followed by "y" should be recognized as the "ally" contraction only when it follows letters, never at the beginning of a word -- otherwise, depending on other context issues, it is either the word "You" or just a capital "Y". The "state" remembers whether or not letters have occurred, among other things, to the immediate left of the braille being translated to print, and if it has not been set (or preserved from the immediately preceding translation) correctly, you could get the effects that have been reported. Please feel free to quote this reply to the list if you think it appropriate to do so. All the best, Joe At 2007-09-01 01:13, you wrote: Where's The Orkin Man when you need him? Ottawa Canada Hi list: By way of a cc of this message, I am bringing the back translation bugs in KeySoft 7.5 to the attention of the folks at Duxbury Systems. The copyright screen of KS 7.5 mentions they ... No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.13.3/986 - Release Date: 03/09/2007 9:31 AM ___ 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
