[ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
- From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 19:29:47 -0500
I remember using the Compositor tapes to generate Braille stuff in the early
80's, but it still took allot of human intervention. (grin) It was a big day
when it started migrating from Joe Sullivan's mainframe and mini-computer
Duxbury Braille translation onto micros. David Holladay, and his first blind
math PHD lady Karyn Navy ran Braille Edit, on an Apple II+, with translation
tables, and later style-based formatting, on Apple II+ and later... Joe used to
insist that Braille translation had to be strictly lookup table-based and could
only run with the resources then available on mainframes and minis. David
contended that algorithms could be used because even though there were
heuristics in the code, it was essentially rule-based. Now there was a rather
forward thinking but technically premature solution "translation in a box" the
Ransley Translator and embosser's that claimed you didn't need a computer-based
translator... Well...
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:31 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
> Interesting. During the late 1970s I worked in a documentation department in
> a modern company, and even though the typesetting was done via a machine and
> the data stored on mag tapes, the galleys were delivered to illustrators who
> cut/pasted/glued the text along with illustrations to the cardboard masters,
> ready for the camera. No electronic form of the actual page layouts existed
> until the mid-80s.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 14:41
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
>
>
> They had compositor tapes for typesetting, and certainly electronic data
> storage for typeset books by '79.
>
> Nick
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: <albertm13@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 4:27 PM
> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
>
>> I'm a little skeptical about there being an electronic version since the
>> book was first published in 69 and the second edition (what I have) was
>> done in 79.
>>
>> Albert
>>
>> --- Nick wrote ---
>> ...
>> It would be better to have the copyright holder/publisher give some
>> organization the data probably an XTML document and let some knowledgeable
>> people deal with it.
>> ...
>>
>>
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