[duxuser] Re: when to use computer braille
- From: Daveed Mandell <daveed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:03:39 -0700 (PDT)
Hey, David! How are things? When is Duxbury going to be tailored to be
as
user-friendly for blind people as is MegaDots? Any possibility, too, of
adding the very handy
dotted folding line for letters that you guys put in MegaDots years ago?
Hope all is well with you and caryn
--Daveed--
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, David Holladay wrote:
> In general, computer braille is designed for words used in a computer
> context that does not follow the conventions of standard text for which
> standard braille is based.
>
> For example, in grade two braille, the dropped "d" is used for the
> following things "dis" (beginning of a word), "dd" (middle of a word), or
> period (end of a word).
>
> One conclusion is that no one ever thought that a period would show up at
> the beginning of a word (file extension) or in the middle of a word (web
> address or a file name).
>
> When there are periods, slashes, backslashes, periods, tildes, and other
> junk, it is time to think of the Computer Braille Code.
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