[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [brailleblaster] Needed, a Braille Font
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:28:12 -0700
ViewPlus has solved the mapping problem by having lots of fonts with
different mappings. Unfortunately it is getting out of hand, because there
are just too many mappings to handle this way. The nice thing about
BrailleBlaster is that all the mapping is handled by the translator to put
the right Unicode fonts on screen. All that is needed is for those fonts to
be sized correctly.
John G
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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [brailleblaster] Needed, a Braille Font
Yes, I know. That's why the font doesn't map between ASCII and dots.
Op 10-okt-11, om 22:53 heeft John J. Boyer het volgende geschreven:
> This looks good. However, dot patterns are not mapped to the same
> ASCIII
> characters in all braille codes.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:25:32PM +0200, Bert Frees wrote:
>> These fonts maps the Unicode braille range to braille patterns, and
>> maps the ASCII range to regular characters. All glyphs have the same
>> dimensions. I made this font myself because in odt2braille you can
>> switch between "text view" and "dots view", and the characters should
>> stay on exact the same position in both views.
>>
>> Both fonts contain all 256 braille patterns. The 6-dot variant has
>> phantom dots on positions 1-6, the 8-dot variant has phantom dots on
>> all positions.
>>
>>
>> Op 10-okt-11, om 21:35 heeft Bert Frees het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/odt2braille/files/ttf/
>>>
>>>
>>> Op 10-okt-11, om 21:31 heeft John J. Boyer het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> I'm working on a class that will interface BrailleBlaster with
>>>> printer
>>>> drivers. For the Tiger, we will need a Braille font. Where can
>>>> such a
>>>> font be obtained? We will also need a Braille font for displaying
>>>> dot
>>>> patterns in the braille view on the screen.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
>>>> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
>>>> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>>>> Madison, Wisconsin USA
>>>> Developing software for people with disabilities
>>>
>>
>> Bert Frees
>> Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
>> Dept. Elektrotechniek - ESAT - SCD
>> Onderzoeksgroep Documentarchitecturen
>> Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442
>> B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven
>> België
>>
>
> --
> John J. Boyer, Executive Director
> GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc.
> http://www.godtouches.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> Peace, Love, Service
>
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Bert Frees
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Dept. Elektrotechniek - ESAT - SCD
Onderzoeksgroep Documentarchitecturen
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442
B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven
België
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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