I believe Raul is right. BANA changed some of the rules. You can go to
their web site and look at their updated changes. If you don't like some of
the changes, email BANA and tell them so.
The slash sign is now dot 4,5,6 3,4. The BSP is using the wrong sign, dot 4
3,4.
If you keep the speech turned off, you can braille anything the way you want
to, as long as your files are Sense files or .brl files. And, as long as
you never backtranslate the files to print or try to read them with speech,
you'll be fine.
Human beings can tell when dots 3,4 stand for the st sign and when dots 3,4
stood for the old slash, but computer software can't do that. A person can
also tell when dots 3,6 is supposed to be a hyphen and when dots 3,6 is
supposed to stand for the letters com, but the software can't. That's
probably why the BSP is programmed to ad a dot 4 in front of dots 3,6.
Most people do translate braille files into print, so many rules must be
changed or broken to accommodate this. I don't think UEB should ever be
adopted, but I think people should be able to use it as an optional code for
their own personal use. I also think some of the changes BANA has made are
wrong, but I believe more changes will have to be made to accommodate
writing braille with notetakers.
I also believe, though most people disagree with me, that if a person needs
to write documents sighted people will read, they should write .txt files
and use a QWERTY keyboard with the BSP. You can still read the files in
contracted braille, but you will know that when you write them using a
qwerty style keyboard, they will be correct for sighted people to read.
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