Hi Brandon,
Look at DBT’s Document menu when you have a file open. 5th Item down is
“Learning Tables” (immediately below “Translation Tables”). Arrow down to that
and press F1 which will take you to Help for that item.
This feature was added a while back, and supports a number of popular braille
teaching courses. What appears in the Learning Tables list, is dependent on
what Template you have used for your DBT document. If you have selected one of
the BANA Templates for example, you will only see Tables which relate to BANA.
Each of the Tables in then broken down into stages, levels or books which
follow what is introduced at each stage of the formal course. Hence you can
start at Grade 1, and advance gradually to full Grade 2.
This is not a substitute for purchasing the actual course, but is provided as a
means of producing additional braille for the student as they progress. You
can also take the same original DBT document, and re-translate say at the next
level, where the student can see the differences – also a helpful teaching side.
The concept of allowing control over individual contractions has been
considered many times, but the problem there is if/when the student changes
school or teacher in the middle of learning braille. It is much, much better
to be able to say, “Student has reached Level # of XYZ course.”, where the new
staff can continue from a known point.
If your school district does use a braille course which is not listed, feel
free to contact Duxbury who will be happy to look into the possibility and
practicality of adding the course. But please bear in mind this currently only
applies to formally approved courses.
George
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Behalf Of Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: 11 February 2016 02:14
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Subject: [duxuser] Re: Specifying contractions to be translated?
Hello,
I have searched through the help for contraction tables and I can't find
anything. Is it under language tables, templates or what?
Sorry, the help for DBT is giant and I don't think like the documentation
writers.
Thank you,
Brandon Keith Biggs<http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Rasmussen, Lloyd
<lras@xxxxxxx<mailto:lras@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
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<tel: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.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 4:20 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto: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
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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/>
