[NFB-Braille-Discussion] Making Braille Symbols in Print

Sun Jun 23 18:33:13 UTC 2019

Sahar,

If you take the ASCII text from a BRF file and apply the SymBraille font in word and use font size 16, then the Braille will look close to the correct size. 

One way to get the needed ASCII characters is to type the characters into a Duxbury Braille file, translate it, and copy the characters into the word document. Remember to apply the SymBraille font to these characters.

You can also get the same result if you have a note taker and you type Braille into a text type document.

Cordially,

Ellen

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Thank you, Susan. I wonder if I just translated the book into print, and used braille font when I needed to input the actual symbols. That way, I wouldn't have to retype the whole thing, smile.

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A simulated braille font looks like braille intended for visual readers.  It has separate flat black dots in the same positions where  embossed braille cells have raised dots. (Imagine rubbing charcoal or colored powder carefully over embossed braille to just color the raised dots.) For example, if you type a print equals sign into a print document and change the font of the equals sign (not of the whole document) to SimBraille, it will look like to a sighted reader like the braille cell with all six dots raised.

I don't use Duxbury but I think you can cut and paste a DXB file also.
Alternatively, can't you input a DXB file and have Duxbury export it as a brf file? 

SusanJ

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Thanks, Susan. The file is in DXB format. I copied the dot locator, for example, into a print document, and it looks like a period followed by the equals sign, which is how the PDF version of the rule book has it. Is there anywhere I can read more about this? Obviously, the braille of the print version isn't going to look right in braille. I appreciate your and Don's help so far. I would like to have the book transcribed at the end of July, into print, if I can. I suppose, the only way to know what the print looks like is to have a print reader describe to me what they see. 

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Sahar Husseini
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If you have the braille in a brf file in standard ASCII braille you can just copy and paste the portion you want to have in simulated braille into a print document and change the font and you will have the right dots.

HTH, SusanJ

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