[bookport] Re: operating system
- From: "Louis Gosselin" <gosselin_louis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:39:51 -0500
I bet I have that very dictionary you're talking about, and
never use anything else. It was originally full of a great
many careless kinds of errors in it, however, and over the
years I've corrected all the ones I've found--thinks like
words run together without a space, definition numbers
without a period after them, and I like to have each new
definition begin a new line--guess I'm some kind of
anal-compulsive, or whatever you call that psychological
character set, and sometimes the definitions of a word were
not separated from the next Word-entry--things like that.
Well, laugh if you must, but I still fix 'em all as I find
them, and, I still have it, and love it, and will never give
it up. It does fit nicely on my 1GB sandisk flashcard, too,
along with some 50 other directories I regularly bring with
me to and from work. But I don't put that flashcard onto my
bookport, ever; that's strictly for the portable library I
move from computer to computer. Needless to say, it, too,
is backed up to another flashcard--ain't they just
wonderful, though? I love those, too!
Louis Gosselin
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin
Jones
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:23 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: operating system
The other bonus to grade 1 braille only is you can throw the
file on a pc
and immediately access it there also.
I also love the idea of a dictionary, there was a copy of
the American
Heritage Dictionary used by some back in the early 90s. It
was about 12mb
and although not the definitive dictionary did provide nice
definitions, I
still have it on my hd. It may be possible to put it on a
card say in a dic
folder the files could be specifically named say ahd-a.txt
ahd-b.txt and
then some code could be added to access it.
I'd already kind of thought of adding it and just using the
search feature
for looking up words, let's see what Rob thinks.
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of David Allen
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:19 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: operating system
Hi Megan and list:
Like you, I like contracted Braille. But I have been
surprised by how easily
I've adapted to using computer Braille in my book port
notes. Remember
contracted Braille was designed as a space saving measure.
One particular
unfortunate result of it has been less literate blind people
because they
spent so much time agonising over contractions that they
can't spell beyond
elementary school level. In the book port context, the
amount of space it
would save would not be significant. This is only my
opinion.
Cheers,
Dave
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