[duxuser] Re: Comments to the list and comments about transcribing braille.
- From: Dave Durber <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:28:30 -0500
Interestingly enough, I do happen to know that four embossers from
Enabling Technologies plus five embossers from Index do add up to nine
embossers in total! That was just a typo that I forgot to correct
when I was going over the message before sending it! I thought I
would clarify that just in case anyone was thinking that I might not
be able to perform mathematic equations! Ha! Ha! Ha!
On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:54:31 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello everyone:
>
>I know that my following comments are probably going to bring a lot of
>criticism down upon my head. Well! As president Truman said "if you
>can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen".
>
>Deep Breath! here goes!
>
>It seems to me, that there are a lot of questions being asked on this
>user list that are nothing to do with the operation of DBT and more to
>do with the settings of different braille embossers.
>
>Over the years, I have owned four Enabling Technologies braille
>embossers and five Index braille embossers. All seven machines came
>with both print and braille manuals. As manuals go, the manuals from
>Enabling Technologies are some of the easiest to follow and
>understand. The manuals from Index, in my opinion, could and should
>be translated better. Although, I did not have too much difficulty
>understanding the instructions. If I needed to know how to change the
>settings for either manufacturers machines, I used to use the
>appropriate manual in order to find out how to make the necessary
>changes. Contacting a user list such as this would have been my last
>resort.
>
>May I suggest that this should be the first place individuals should
>look or, contact the manufacturer/Supplier of the embosser to obtain
>this type of information, before contacting the list.
>
>If an individual is intending to be certified as a braille
>transcriber/proofreader, in their particular country, knowing how to
>change the settings for different sizes of paper in the embosser or
>embossers that you use to produce braille and how to change the
>settings in DBT are some of the most basic and important things you
>must know and learn if you are even to begin producing high quality
>braille. If an individual cannot make these kinds of changes for each
>project as necessary, without referring to other users to help them,
>then they might want to consider another line of work or, study more
>of the basics before committing themselves to a business that can have
>very tight turn-around times and very tight dead-lines, that must be
>met in order not only to be successful but also to gain a good
>reputation for producing high quality braille.
>
>The knowledge I have gained in using different braille transcription
>programs, including using DBT for the past 4 years, to produce my
>braille projects and products over the past twenty-three years, has
>been achieved with: a great deal of hard work, lots of reading, lots
>of experimentation and using Duxbury's excellent Technical Support
>service.
>
>Now, I not only hope to get answers to some of my DBT questions from
>some of you but, I would like to be able to help others with some of
>the techniques and knowledge that I have learned over the past
>twenty-three years.
>
>I hope that the contributions I have made so far since joining the
>list have been of help and use to some of you.
>
>Sincerely:
>
>Dave Durber
>
>
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