All the contraction rules are in tables that are not user-editable. But, as has
already been pointed out, there are pre-defined partial contraction tables,
designed for the purpose of learning braille by various organizations, included
with DBT.
To display the codes that are in your documents, press Alt-F3.
To bring down a long list of possible codes, which can be selected by first
character, press F5.
Learn more about the various contraction tables in the help system.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of
Congress
Washington, DC 20542 202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the
Library of Congress, NLS.
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 4:20 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Specifying contractions to be translated?
Hello,
How does one read and edit codes by hand? So rather than pressing f1, I press
[g1]?
That is really odd there is no way to edit the translation dictionary. Can one
create their own translation dictionary?
What is the code list? There is a force contraction code...
This would become too tedious, I would rather just have a set list of
contractions that I can add or remove based on where the student is at.
Thanks,
Brandon Keith Biggs<http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Louise Chuha
<louc01@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:louc01@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Brandon,
There are shortcuts for specifying specific words to be translated into “grade
2” braille.
At the beginning of the DXP file, press alt-1. When you come to a word you want
to contract, press alt-2 and write the word out. Immediately after that word
(or words) press alt-1 again and continue until the next contracted word comes
up. Again press alt-2 before and alt-1 after. When you translate the document
into braille, you’ll see the contracted words you specified. If you have the
coded view on, you’ll see them the same as if you had gone to the codes list
and put in the codes you wanted.
I hope that made sense. If you have questions, you can always write back to me
and I’ll try to answer them.
Louise Chuha
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On
Behalf Of Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 3:53 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [duxuser] Specifying contractions to be translated?
Hello,
We have a document we want translated into Grade 1, but we want the following
contractions:
Letter contractions, and, of, with and the.
Everything else we want in grade 1.
How do we do this?
Thank you,
Brandon Keith Biggs<http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
