[nabs-l] French and Braille

[Sophie Trist]

Julie, do you have the braillenote apex set to French? To do 
this, go to utilities, then language. Enable French, and try that 
out.

HTH,
Sophie

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From: Matthew Dierckens via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: Dezman Jackson <djackson at BISM.org>,National Association of 
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Date sent: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:18:34 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] French and Braille

The end-all, are you taking Canadian or Parisian French? Not that 
it particularly matters, but I know that Duxbury will translate 
to French into braille, as when I was in both public and high 
school, I would use that program to Braille my French documents. 
Let me see if I can get a demo version of the software, and see 
what the setting is. Because, I'm not sure if it is changed since 
I last used it. Can you tell me what version you're using?

Matt Dierckens
Assistive technology specialist
Macintosh trainer

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 On Feb 11, 2015, at 03:28, Dezman Jackson via nabs-l 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Julie,

 I'm not sure if it would work or not, but try setting your Apex 
to display Unified English Braille (UEB). I take it that 
currently what you get a lot is an accented letter preceded by 
dot 4 regardless of what type of accent it is.
 One of the benefits of UEB is that each type of accent e.g.  
grave, acute, cedilla, have unique representations in braille. 
This would of course require learning these symbols and the other 
modifications to the code based on UEB, but this should not 
present much of an issue if you already know braille being that 
the base code is still the same. Finally, for reading French, 
you'll of course want to have grade one mode turned on.

 Kindest regards,

 Dezman Jackson, NOMC, NCLB

 On Feb 10, 2015, at 11:14 PM, Julie McGinnity via nabs-l 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Hi all,

 French speakers, this question is for you.

 As part of my masters program, I am required to take a number of
 languages.  This semester I am taking French.  I would like my
 handouts in Braille.  My university has Duxbury and an embossor, 
and
 the people  here want to do this Braille for me.  I also really 
really
 want my tests in Braille so that I can read them rather than 
listen to
 JAWS read in a language with which I am not familiar.  My 
question:
 how do you translate a file into grade one French Braille?  
These are
 word documents that my instructor writes up that we are feeding
 through Duxbury.  The language switching we are attempting isn't
 working.  When I receive the handouts, there are strange Braille 
signs
 I have never seen before in the middle of words.  And I cannot 
throw
 these handouts on the Braille Note Apex because they do not 
translate
 there either.

 I remember translating German handouts on the Braille Note and 
don't
 understand why this is apparently (according to my Braille note)
 unavailable in French.  The same goes for Duxbury.  I enjoy the
 language and am succeeding at speaking it, but spelling it is 
proving
 rather difficult without studying the Braille.  So many reasons 
we
 need Braille in front of us rather than just audio!  :)

 Any guidance with these issues would be much appreciated!

 --
 Julie McGinnity
 National Federation of the Blind performing arts division 
secretary,
 Missouri Association of Guide dog Users President, National 
Federation
 of the Blind of Missouri recording secretary,
 graduate Guiding Eyes for the Blind 2008, 2014
 "For we walk by faith, not by sight"
 2 Cor. 7

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