[nabs-l] BrailleNote in Spanish? Writing and reading

[Gerardo Corripio]

  HI guys
Very excited and nervous because in a few weeks, I'll finally be getting 
my Apex! No I didn't buy since my parents, nor I, have the money to buy 
a $5500 device, especially taking into account that here in Mexico, 
because of the import costs, they're way too expensive! thus for us the 
blind here, a regular Laptop with Jaws or NVDA is the best we can get; I 
know of the benefits of blindness notetakers, especially since I've used 
them before, and for the IPhone to be able to access it with keyboard, 
sounds very interesting! So when several months back, I saw an item in 
the Tech Tidbits newsletter in which a group of people along with 
TopDots, was given away several of these to worthwhile people based on 
if you were to give it a good home, how you'd use it etc., based on an 
essay you had to send in, I thought OK what the heck I never win 
anything, but OK let's try and see what happends, and I sent my EMail. 
So end of story? I was a fortunate winner of the Apex, which I sometimes 
feel as if I were dreaming!
Anyway my question is (and I already asked on the Bn List, but the more 
info, the better), I'm aware the Apex is able to work in English, 
Spanish, Italian and French for reading/writing, but in what grade 
Braille? IN Spanish, you use the literary Braille code for everyday use 
like for the A Accent is the Of sign, the E Accent is the t-h-e sign, 
the I accent is the st, the ñ is the er, cap sign is dots 46, get the 
idea? OK my wondering is when i set Spanish as the working language, 
what Braille would one use? the literary code, or computer Braille? I 
seem to understand from the manual that Spanish literary Braille isn't 
yet supported, thus the use of computer Braille is required? For those 
who maybe take Spanish in school/college, how have you gone about 
learning the Spanish Braille used on the Bn Apex, in case, as I 
understand from the manual, it's not the literary code, but computer 
Braille, or has Keysoft advanced since the writing of the manual, and 
the Apex now supports literary Spanish Braille? I ask so that I can 
start teaching myself, if needed, Spanish computer Braille! which brings 
me to when reading on the Braille display in spanish, what Spanish 
Braille code does it show? Again computer Braille?
OK Let's continue in the scene where I Still have the working language 
in Spanish, right? OK suppose I get an English EMail, or I want to 
Braille something in english; would the Insert+l for Change language be 
used here then? Via the enter+l, would the voice come up reading in 
English whatever I'm reading?
And finally because I'm kind of hessitant to ask since I wouldn't want 
to convert this to a BN list but have nowhere else to turn and I'm kind 
of nervous for when I get my Apex, are the menus, help etc still in 
English even though the Working language is in Spanish? Thus would these 
menus speak in English English, and not in Spanglish, in which the 
Spanish voice wants to try to pronounce these, if you understand what I 
mean? I'm in contact with a girl in Mexico City who uses an Apex, but 
she uses the qwerty version, amd what I'm looking for also, is for 
someone who uses the Bt version. I've looked on Youtube, on the 
BrailleNote users site at http://www.braillenoteusers.info/media but 
nothing! Thanks for any help you guys can give, and again sorry for 
asking on here even though it's not the Bn list, but as I said before, I 
have nowhere else to turn. ON other technology lists, they don't seem to 
know, or haven't been in luck in finding someone who use the apex in 
Spanish. Thanks for the info you guys can give, especially those who use 
your Apex for daily use in Spanish and English.

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Enviado desde mi lap
Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki
Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México
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