[bookport] Re: Any New Hardware Revision Plans?
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:46:57 -0400
That isn't anything to do with the NLS braille. It's a dictionary
shortcoming in the firmware and I can live with it. To try to get all of the
exceptions properly programmed so that it knows the differences between
Saint and Street, Doctor and Drive, feet and fort, etc., etc., would take an
incredible amount of program space and you'd never be able to nail them all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Massey" <micmey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 8:12 PM
Subject: [bookport] Any New Hardware Revision Plans?
Hi. What great suggestions have been made in fun!!! I like Robert's
suggestion of an invisible book port to carry around when at a boring
meeting. Lol. Anyway, seriously, I wonder if we need to contact NLS
regarding the translation of braille magazines. I have been reading Popular
Mechanics and have come across several instances in which if measurements
are given for something such as a shed, the measurements are read as 20 fort
high and nine fort wide rather than feet. I also have noticed that when it
comes to living in Missouri, the big city with the RAms and Cardinals is
pronounced Still Louis, smile. I get a chuckle every time I hear those
particular mispronunciations.
Oh yeah, book port should pay our bills but not from our accounts, smile.
I'm glad we're allowed a bit of latitude on this list.
Mike
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