[duxuser] Re: Remove leading commas?
- From: "Foxworth, Ann" <Ann.Foxworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:20:57 -0500
Darren, it would be extremely helpful for you to learn braille or to
acquire a good braille manual so you could look things up. When you
receive a sign job, you need to translate it just as it is. Not using
the capital in upper case words or acronyms is not a true translation of
the text you were given. I can't tell you how many signs I've seen done
by people who do not know anything about braille that were either not
legible at all, or had glaring mistakes in them. Though it is possible
to translate a print document to braille with the click of the mouse,
and often it will turn out ok, it is not absolutely foolproof and you
owe it to your customers to put our the best braille signage possible.
I worked for two years with a local sign shop who was creating some
plaques for us. We had to go back time after time and proofread what
they'd done, then ask them to redo it because the spacing wasn't right
or a dot was left off, or the translation was incorrectly done. In
braille, spacing one dot a little off, or leaving out a dot can change
the entire meaning of the word.
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Darrin Brunner
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:21 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Remove leading commas?
We're a sign shop that needs to translate to Braille for ADA signs. We
got Duxbury 10.5 and all I've done so far is copy text into it and hit
control-T and cross my fingers that the result is correct. I've noticed
that the every (translated) word starts with two commas which become two
dots in braille. One of the sample ADA signs we received from a
different shop doesn't have these two dots at the beginning of each
word.
Here is the text I've translated that shows the two dots:
COOLING TOWER ACCESS
,,cool+ ,,t[] ,,a3ess
AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY
,,au?oriz$ ,,p]sonnel ,,only
What are they?
Can I remove them to save space?
Thank you.
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