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- From: Mike.Freeman@f126.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Mike Freeman)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: B n s and grade 2
- Message-ID: <23846@handicap.news>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 21:18:50 GMT
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- [This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
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- In a message to William Wilson <18 Jul 92 13:57> Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
-
- > TW>> turns the tranlator on and brailles
- > TW>> in grade two. then when she
- > TW>> prints it she does I think she said
- > TW>> a cord b and a cord t and
- > TW>> the paper product comes out in
- > TW>> grade 2. so you all figure this
- > TW>> one out.
- > WW> If you use the translator when
- > WW> you create your file, it
- > WW> is, of course, in the form of grade
- > WW> 2 braille. If you then
- > WW> transmit it to a print printer, or
- > WW> want it stored as straight
- > WW> ASCII on whatever source you're
- > WW> sending it to, you turn the
- > WW> translator on in the status menu.
- > WW> In other words, it "reverse
- > WW> translates" the braille file to an
- > WW> ASCII file. If, however,
- > WW> you are sending it to a braille
- > WW> printer, and you want it to be
- > WW> printed as the braille file it was
- > WW> composed as, you turn the
- > WW> braille translator off in the
- > WW> status menu. This way, it will
- > WW> be sent out just as you composed
- > WW> it, no reverse translation
- > WW> taking place, and assuming you
- > WW> formatted it correctly, it
- > WW> should at the least be readable
- > WW> grade 2 braille in hard copy.
- CH> Hi, guys.
- CH> You are nearly correct, Willy. The BNS
- CH> translator actually only works on
- CH> stuff coming out of a file, and not on
- CH> stuff going into a file. It only
- CH> back-translates, and does not
- CH> forward-translate. If you write stuff
- CH> using contractions, you have to have
- CH> the translator on in order to hear
- CH> it in English, and in order to upload
- CH> it in ASCII or print it in print.
- CH> If you enter stuff without using
- CH> contractions, then forget about the
- CH> translator for reading, uploading, and
- CH> printing. The only way to get
- CH> grade 2 braille out of the BNS is to
- CH> enter the contractions yourself,
- CH> then upload or output the stuff
- CH> without the back-translator (the only
- CH> translator) turned on. Lots of people
- CH> use Turbo Braille on their
- CH> desktops to create grade 2 for downloading onto their BNS.
-
- > WW> If I did, I would
- > WW> probably still want to send it to a PC and do a good
- > WW> translation with Turbo-Braille, so
- > WW> I would still probably not
- > WW> use the translator in my creation of the file.
-
- CH> If I am right, you are saying that
- CH> Turbo Braille does a better job than
- CH> you do by hand, Willie, not better
- CH> than BNS. Turbo Braille has no
- CH> back-translator at all. I had a guy
- CH> call me once in despair because he
- CH> deleted his source file and only had a
- CH> braille file left, and he was
- CH> pretty upset that TBRL could not
- CH> back-translate it for him. I advised
- CH> him to download it to his BNS, then
- CH> turn his BNS translator on and
- CH> upload it again. He decided not to
- CH> take his own life after all. ...
- CH> Chuck.
-
- Hi, Chuck!
-
- Glad we didn't have to read about that feller in the obits!
-
- As to this BNS business, you've explained it extremely well with one
- tiny caveat: In order to transmit a Grade II file to a Braille printer
- from the Braille 'N Speak, one does not have to go into the status menu
- and turn the Braille back-translator off. One only needs to do a
- T-chord B. This transmits the file with the back-translator off but
- still honoring the format parameters (line length, page length, top
- margin and left margin) you've set from the status menu. With the June
- 26, 1992, revision of the BNS640 software, those parameters are
- file-specific, BTW.
-
- Happy Brailling!
-
- Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >
- ... ** "A cynic is right nine times out of ten." -- H. L. Mencken **
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