[nfbcs] Brailling computer code for embossing and display on a refreshable braille display

[rjaquiss]

Hello Don:

     There is nothing you can do about a refreshable braille display that is
less than 40 cells. I suggest putting in a transcriber's note informing the
reader that the lines are 40 cells long and that there are lines of code
which are indented. In many languages, the indenting of lines is done to
help the reader find blocks of code. This is nnot the case however for
Python. Python requires blocks to be indented and the indenting is part of
the language syntax.

Regards,

Robert


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Subject: [nfbcs] Brailling computer code for embossing and display on a
refreshable braille display

Apologies in advance for what might be something I should already know.  I
have searched for an answer online with a moderate level of diligence, but
without success.
 
I am a sighted braille transcriber and I have a question about formatting
when brailling content that is intended for embossing, but which may also be
read on refreshable braille devices (RBD).  This question has come up in my
embossing of a computer science textbook with programming code that should
be displayed with specific line indenting and line breaks.
 
When brailled content is to be embossed on the usual 11" x 11.5" paper, it
is formatted with a 40-cell line length.  If a BRF file is displayed by a
RBD with 40-cell width, formatting would display as expected with hard line
breaks and indenting retained from the original. However, if displayed by a
RBD with less than a 40-cell width, I am not certain how line breaks and
indenting will be displayed.

Does a RBD retain indenting and line breaks as would a programmer's editor
like EMACS, or are wrap-around lines displayed starting at cell 1?
 
Is there a way to format a BRF file so all formatting of computer code is
retained?
 
_don
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