[bookport] Re: operating system
- From: "Kevin Jones" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:22:43 -0600
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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