[duxuser] Re: A question about braille syntax
- From: Dave Durber <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:54:04 -0500
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As far as I know, in British braille, The letters S and T in the word
mistake are contracted whereas in North American Braille, they are
not.
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:21:31 -0500, you wrote:
>I have been working with a couple of PacMate machines for evaluation
>purposes and have come across a couple of things which make me wonder just
>how far behind the times I am in braille.
>
>The word mistake is being translated without the ST contraction. My wife,
>being British already has some strange ideas about correct braille however
>we both thought ST would have been appropriate. It occurred to me that You
>guys would probably be the authorities.
>
>About the only reasoning we could come up with is that the ST in mistake
>crosses a syllable. IS this correct?
>
>I have not been able to see how Duxbury translates it yet, my version is
>10.3 and sadly the media is corrupted except hopefully for one copy which I
>hope to be able to recover from a back-up stored on a work network machine
>but not immediately available to me as we just installed a replacement
>machine yesterday.
>
>Thanks for any wisdom.
>
>Dale Leavens.
>
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