I can make these on my Pac Mate, but those keyboard combos are not going to
apply to a computer keyboard, or probably not to whatever other Braille
display you are using; unless it is a Braille Lite or some other Freedom
Scientific product, perhaps, perhaps. Also, my version of JAWS's insert-4
menu will create some of these, but not circumflex.
Also, if you are talking about Tolkien - I presume so - you will also need
the dieresis, which my insert-4 menu does not list, and something called a
'macron'. Additionally, there are a few names containing l's with a dot
under the l. But wait, there's even more! There are some words in Old
English containing letters that don't look anything like the letters in the
modern alphabet. We will have to figure out how to represent those.
If the only linguist I know gets back to me, I am hoping to ask her about
the Old English words.
You have to ask yourself, however, if the effort of putting all these in,
given that OB at least doesn't recognize any of them, (does K1000 recognize
diacritical marks?) is worth the gain; since, given that the Bookshare
software cannot handle characters such as open and close quotes, ellipses
and others, whether some of these marks will even show up in the published
work that others will download. I imagine some will, but I would bet that
some will not.
For example, there are some Old English words in Book of Lost Tales Part One
containing what I believe is what JAWS calls 'the ae dipthong'. It is a
symbol that looks like an a on the left sharing a line with an e on the
right. I can insert this symbol, but since I have no idea what the
Bookshare software will make of it, and I want to be safe and make sure the
text is readable, I have elected to write out the letters a and e instead.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] braille code help anyone? Mickey?
Dear braille readers,
All my life I've read braille but slipped over accents. Now I need to know the code for letters with different accents. By comparing my braille book with print, I concluded the acute was dot four before a letter. When I found a dot four before the letter e in another word, it was an e umlaut in print, but from the braille I'd have assumed it was an e acute. I'll be needing the circumflex, too and maybe some others. Does anyone know these braille symbols or a site where I can look them up on the net?
For clarification I'm talking about English braille. I would probably recognize the braille accents in French, from my junior and senior high school days forever ago, but these aren't the same as the symbols used in French language.
Never ending questions...curiously anticipating the answer.
Thanks,
----- Original Message ----- From: "The Pardees" <jfpardee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:37 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: big mistake
Why Lissi, I would never even think of doing anything like that. Besides none of my submissions ever have scannos.
The last time I checked Terror Twon was still waiting to be picked up. I bet it would have gone if I had mistyped a t for the n. Jim
At 07:56 PM 7/25/06, you wrote:
You're funny, Jim. Did you write c-o-r-r-e-d-t to see if, "We Validators," were paying attention? d is a common scanno for c-t. This validator just caught it. Correct?
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message ----- From: "The Pardees" <jfpardee@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:45 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] big mistake
Hi list,
last night I submitted Terror Town by Stuart M. Kaminsky. Being half asleep, as usual, I reversed the ow in town, so it reads Terror Twon. This is the first mistake I've made since 2004, and I'm sure the more awake validators will corredt it.
smile Jim
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