[duxuser] Re: Error checking imported braille files in Duxbury
- From: Dave Durber <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:03:31 -0400
The problem with back-transcribing a braille file to a print file is
that you also introduce other misrepresentations in words and
abbreviations.
For example, the oblique or slash in and/or, him/her, he/she; remains
as it should but, in the example where you type oblique/slash, the
oblique or slash character is uncontracted to the letters s and t when
the braille file is back-transcribed to a print file.
Likewise, if duxsys.com did not have the beginning and ending cbc
indicators at the start and end of duxsys.com, in the braille file,
the dot or period would be interpreted as the letters dd, when the
file is back-transcribed to a print file.
I could give many other examples but, what would be the point, I think
you all get the drift.
What I'm saying is, if you want to produce good quality braille, there
are no real short cuts and a bit of legwork is always involved
somewhere or other. As I have said before, "if a job is worth doing,
do it well and do it right".
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:30:22 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Flor,
>
>You could back-translate the file and spell check the result. Back
>translation is not always reliable, but you'd probably catch a few errors
>that way.
>
>Steve
>
>On Tuesday 4/6/04 19:57 Flor Lynch wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm writing as a blind braille proof-reader. Is there a way to 'error
>>check' imported braille files (such as .brf, or .bmk [Braille Maker])
>>for braille contraction errors, etc., using Duxbury? [Examples, using
>>ASCII braille: the word 'believers' might be incorrectly brailled as
>>2LI"ES - which should correctly be 2LIEV]S. Of course, one can and
>>does manually read through the affected file, but if one is not enjoying
>>what one is reading - consider a book- or volume-length transcription -
>>A quicker way to spell-check (or whatever) and spot such contraction
>>errors would be welcomed!?! (I have a braille display - the Braille
>>Lite M20; therefore, also, anyone who knows it, would I be able to
>>accomplish this task with the BLM, if not in DBT itself?).
>>
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