[brailleblaster] Re: Fonts in BrailleBlaster
- From: François Ouellette <braille@xxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:18:51 -0400
At the moment BB uses Courier New in the daisy window, if not
available it takes Unibraille29.
F.
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM, John J. Boyer <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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