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

[Sahar's Beaded Creations]

Hi, 

I actually started transcribing the book into print. Thank you for
everyone's assistance. I might get stuck on some symbols, but I translated
the document into print, opened it in Word, and I'm fixing away. I had my
husband look at the .= symbol, and it does, in fact, show the pattern for
the dot locator. This is very cool.

Warm regards,
Sahar Husseini
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Subject: Re: [NFB-Braille-Discussion] Making Braille Symbols in Print

Yes if you have a brf file that uses ASCII braille and you display it with
an ordinary print font it's just going to show the ASCII equivalent for each
of the braille cells so the braille letters will look like print letters to
visual reader but most of the other characters will not be related to their
braille meanings. If you display the same file with SimBraille you will get
inkprint braille.  

However, as Sahar wrote, if you want to have a print equivalent of a braille
file you have to translate it from braille to the equivalent print just like
you have to translate print to the equivalent braille. I believe that
Duxbury has an option to backtranslate braille to print but it isn't
guaranteed to be perfect.

Remember that when an electronic file is stored in a computer it consists
entirely of numbers.  If you display the file with a text editor then the
software in the editor looks up the numbers in one of its glyph tables to
find out what each number is supposed to look like. If you display the file
with an embosser then the software in the embosser looks up the numbers in
one of its tables to find out which braille cell to emboss. Of course if you
are reading a braille file with a screenreader that has a built-in
backtranslator then it will speak the language it has just backtranslated
the braille to just like a braille reader reading contracted English braille
aloud can backtranslate it in their head and speak it as ordinary English.

If you want to show some inkprint braille samples in a print file then you
can use ASCII braille and change the font for the samples to SimBraille.  If
you don't want to use a different font you would have to use Unicode Braille
for the braille samples and then get a special Unicode font that works for
both English print characters and also for Unicode Braille.  To my knowledge
the only fonts like that are for eight-dot braille but I could be wrong.

Best wishes.


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