I wonder whether GW/Hims have considered the option of allowing the use
of United English Braille (UEB). To be sure, UEB hasn't really caught on
in this country, and as a reader of North American braille, there are
certainly things about it that I find somewhat clunky and annoying.
However, I think that for people who are looking for accurate machine
translation, which is one of the things UEB was built for, it could do a
great deal of good, and it could be provided at least as an option to
Braille Sense users. I believe, since WE has the option of using it
already, that Duxbury has a working UEB translator available. Just a
matter to consider.
Mike Freeman wrote:
In Grade 2 mode, dot 4 generally preceeds an ASCII symbol that doesn't
have a Grade 2 equivalent. Likewise, if you are writing in Grade 2 mode
and preceed an ASCII symbol with dot 4, you can generally prevent the
translator from translating the symbol. There are some exeptions,
however; I don't remember them at the moment.
In general, the anomalies are part of the Duxbury translator and are not
the idiosyncracies of HIMS programmers.
I know Terri mentioned the double dots 4-5-6 symbol for the undersccore
character. This is, in fact, proper Computer Braille Code (as opposed to
the ASCII braille code which has some in common with the Computer
Braille Code but which has many subtle differences). Under some
circumstances, as, for example, in some file name translations, Duxbury
uses Literary Braille italics symbols when, perhaps, it should use ASCII
braille. But, with some sympathy to translation programmers, it's hard
to formulate hard-and-fast rules that translation software should use.
That's why human transcribers haven't been put out of business and
probably won't be for some time. (grin)
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:20 AM
Subject: [GWN] more discoveries about the MSPQ
Hi, List!
I thought I would mention a few more discoveries I made. I would assume
they are true for the bt model as well as the qt.
1. You cannot change a file from read-only compress to original and
edit it
without the file getting corrupted. I opened a file and turned on
read-only
compressed. As I was reading, I discovered some errors I needed to
correct.
I changed the file from read-only compressed to write original and made
a
correction. To my dismay, the file became corrupted! I closed the file
without saving, then I opened it again, made the necessary changes and
the
file was fine.
2. Place markers are only preserved in SenseWord files.
3. The < > signs are translated as dot 4 dots 1,2,6 and dot 4 dots
3,4,5.
I like that!
4. The unit doesn't remind you when you are using one-handed mode. If
you
are trying to write braille and you see nothing until you press the
space
bar, then you are in one-handed mode.
That's all for now.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
