UEBC is an abomination for those into complex math. In fact, I have the suspicion that it was primarily designed by math-phobics.
But this is OT for this list. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Hall" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [GWN] more discoveries about the MSPQ Really? I like the code a lot more than grade 2; I can write in contracted braille, yet still have all my math and other symbols right there. It also cleans up some of the questions by getting rid of the dot 6 n and y signs, so you know if you see a dot 6 and a letter, even in a word, that letter is a capital. I also love the 3 capital signs meaning all caps until you end it, great for titles of papers or paragraph headings. Anyway, for what it is worth, I think it would be great to see on more notetakers. Have a great day, Alex New email address: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Freeman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [GWN] more discoveries about the MSPQ >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. >> >> > >
