[duxuser] Re: Symbols

  • From: "Karina Gregory" <Karina.Gregory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:26:51 -0000

Reinette,
I live in the UK and I suspect that this is the case as I am not familiar
with the import tables as I have only recently started using it.  Any help
is much appreciated.

Thanks.
Karina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinette Popplestone" <rpopples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 8:21 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Symbols


> dots 2346 for the at sign  is what is used in UK Computer Braille. Which
> tables are you using, Carina? And where do you live? Perhaps your
programme
> is importing the default BANA tables.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Reinette
>
>
>  UK,  indeedfor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Dresser" <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 4:03 AM
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: Symbols
>
>
> > Karina,
> >
> > I've never seen that.  In computer braille here in the U.S. the at sign
is
> > dot 4.
> >
> > To answer your question, you'd have to alter the tables, and I don't
know
> > of an easy way to do that.  Maybe someone else knows how, or has a
better
> > answer.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Sunday 11/28/04 19:04 Karina Gregory wrote:
> >
> > >Dear Steve,
> > >
> > >I have seen the at sign written as the t h e sign in email addresses.
Is
> > >there no way of getting Duxbury to translate that way?  Most
publications
> > >use it in their email addresses.
> > >
> > >Any help is much appreciated.  Thanks.
> > >
> > >Karina
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Steve Dresser" <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:58 PM
> > >Subject: [duxuser] Re: Symbols
> > >
> > >
> > > > Karina,
> > > >
> > > > What you've described is normal behavior for DBTW because there are
no
> > > > representations for these characters in translated braille.  If you
> want a
> > > > character such as the at sign to remain untranslated, you could use
> the
> > >[q]
> > > > code to force DBTW to write out the symbol.  For example, to write
the
> at
> > > > sign, you would code [q~@].  This also means that you could write
> anything
> > > > you want in place of the at sign by using it as the parameter of the
> [q]
> > >code.
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> > > >
> > > > On Sunday 11/28/04 12:08 Karina Gregory wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Dear List Members,
> > > > >
> > > > >Please can someone advise of what I can do to enable DBT 10.5 to
> > >recognise
> > > > >symbols such as @ and backslash, as at the moment it is writing
them
> out
> > > > >in words.
> > > > >
> > > > >Thank you for your help and I look forward to hearing from you
soon.
> > > > >
> > > > >Karina
> > > >
> > > >
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