Raul: This problem may have been reported, and may be worked on, but it's been a long time, and I'd like to know what progress is being made on this major braille issue. The coees in question are standard and consistent. Does the problem revolve around how the translator works with the BSP's firmware? This codes problem apparently never seemed to come up with other notetakers.
Another concern is translations of such initials as U.S.A. I also notice that there always appears a "dot 4" before the computer braille period, which is dots 4-6.
The translator does some good things that other notetakers don't appear to do, such as putting dot 4 before such signs as "plus", in such instances as "Left Arrow+Right Arrow". A trickly businsess this, braille translation via computer!
--Daveed--
At 06:04 PM 8/8/2008, you wrote:
This has already been reported and is being worked on.
Daveed Mandell said the following on 8/8/2008 6:08 PM:
I wrote a document yesterday on the BSP in contracted braille.
One line contained a braille dash, dots 3-6, 3-6. I saved the document as a .doc file, and what do you know, that braille dash turned into the following software code:
the letter "x", followed by dots 4-5, 4-5, followed by the lowered numbers 227, followed by dots 4-5-6-8. I have found many other similar codes in various files I read with the BSp, with different numbers, such as 240 and 224. I believe all these codes represent punctuation marks.
I also often encounter numerous instances where the 8-dot computer braille vertical bar sign, dots 1-2-5-6-8, appears close up to words and numbers. When that happens, the words or numbers in question are translated as computer braille, not contracted braille.
I must emphasize that, while the BrailleNote has its own braille idiosyncracies, similar software codes do not creep into the braille on that notetaker. This has been an ongoing problem with the Sense notetakers, and it is frustrating to note that neither HIMS nor GW Micro has been able to solve it, working with Duxbury Systems.
What I haven't been able to determine yet is if these software codes appear on the visual display.
--Daveed--
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