O Lord! I Hope not! (grin) Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Czajka" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [GWN] more discoveries about the MSPQ 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. > >
