I'm afraid I can't help with embossing, as I don't own an embosser and I've never tried it.
I hope you get it sorted out and it'll be interesting to hear what Humanware has to say. Nicky ----- Original Message ----- From: "orhan deniz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nicola Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "braillenote list" <[email protected]>; "orhan deniz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] creating a non-standard braille table > well, i need to emboss the examination so it can be marked, i have already > done that, but as you stated it is kind of well... strange or acward. > > > === > orhan deniz. > "herseyin sonunu dusunen kahraman olamaz!" > check out my blog of rants at: > http://urfa63.livejournal.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nicola Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "braillenote list" <[email protected]>; "orhan deniz" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:00 PM > Subject: Re: [Braillenote] creating a non-standard braille table > > > Hi Orhan, > > I don't see why you shouldn't be able to do this for Turkish, as I have done > something similar for Czech, which also contains a number of non-standard > characters. For more information on how to assign the dot and key > combinations to the non-standard unicode characters, read the "Extended > Characters" Topics in the BrailleNote manual. If you follow the > instructions, you shouldn't cause any damage to your existing Braille > tables, as once you have changed the key or dot combination assigned to a > particular character, a new Braille table is created automatically. It will > be listed as "Custom USA" or "Custom UK", depending on which computer > Braille table you were using when you changed the dot or key assignment. > > I've been using my Czech Braille table for a few years now and it works > fine, but I have a few warnings: > > 1. The last time I tried to print a document in Czech directly from the > BrailleNote, the non-standard Czech characters did not print correctly. > This may have been rectified by now, but I wouldn't bet on it. :-) If I > create a document in Czech on the BrailleNote and transfer it to the > computer, or send it as an e-mail attachment, it displays and prints > perfectly. > > 2. If I'm using Keyweb, Czech web pages don't always display the extended > characters correctly on the BN. I suspect that this has something to do > with the way in which the BrailleNote handles (or fails to handle) the > encoding of the web page, but I don't know much about that and I'm just > speculating. > > 3. I've never tried to send an e-mail in Czech from the BN, but I doubt > whether it would work properly, as I don't think you can change the encoding > within Keymail. I may be quite wrong about that, though. > > 4. If I've scanned a document in Czech on the computer and I want to read > it on the BN, I have to be very careful about how I save it, otherwise the > extended characters are not preserved on the BN, even though they look fine > on the computer. > > I'm using an mPower BT32 build 27, but my Braille table was originally > created on a BT Classic. I'm afraid I know nothing about Turkish, but I > hope this will be of some help. I'm sending it to the list in case it's of > interest to anyone else. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me > privately. > > All the best, > Nicky > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "orhan deniz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "braillenote list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:27 PM > Subject: [Braillenote] creating a non-standard braille table > > > hello list, recently memory seems to say to me that i 'could' create a > non-standard braille table. > > is this possible? i need to get the turkish dot combinations on my BN for my > exam. just computer braille will do, with some accents. also, i want it to > show the charicters on the display. > > i could probably make one, i'm not asking instructions just wonderring if it > is possible so i don't waste time trying to figure out something. on the > braillenote. > > > === > orhan deniz. > "herseyin sonunu dusunen kahraman olamaz!" > check out my blog of rants at: > http://urfa63.livejournal.com > ___ > 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 > > > > > > ___ 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
