[brailleblaster] Re: Fonts in BrailleBlaster
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:00:50 -0500
Thanks. This sounds good.
John
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 07:56:53PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> If the Braille is the unicode Braille characters, then the Dejavu font
> (http://dejavu.sf.net) has the Braille characters. Interestingly, some
> screen readers (I think Orca, possibly others using brltty) handle
> showing unicode Braille characters correctly on a Braille display.
>
> I do not know how the Braille characters of Dejavu look.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 22/10/2012 19:47, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >I think that BrailleBlaster should use a typewriter-like font, with
> >bold, italic and underline variants. Is such a font easy to read for
> >people with low vision? We can then specify indentation in terms of
> >spaces. The font will be used in both the print and Braille windows. It
> >will give a better feel of what Braille looks like than a
> >proportionally-spaced font.
> >
> >We need a font for Unicode Braille that shows the dot patterns. I don't
> >think this would be readable with a screenreader, but it would be nice
> >for transcribers. The user can always chose to use the character mapping
> >for whatever Braille table is in use to get something that a
> >screenreader can make sense of.
> >
> >John
> >
>
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