[duxuser] Re: Translation nightmare
- From: "Douglas Richard Dexheimer" <drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:12:35 -0600
Here's a conversation I had with Jan Carrol of the National Braille Association
regarding some questions about
formatting with DBT, styles, hyphenation, etc. She suggested I contact
Duxbury for suggestions. She also suggested I sign up on Duxbury Systems'
List Serve. The text of this conversation can be found on the
link given below, where Jan's reply can be viewed. Thanks for your
feedback.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nicki keck
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:01 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Translation nightmare
HI all,
Any suggestions on trying to do this would be really helpful.
I am in a choir, and I have words to songs typed out for me. I translate
them, generally, into grade 2 braille and either put them on my Braille Lite or
emboss them. There is one song which I am just not sure if I can translate
adequately, and any suggestions would be helpful. I am still very new to
Duxbury. Granted, this was originally translated with openbook, but I think
unless I do something differently, I will run into the same problem.
This choir director is somewhat of a dope. I hate to say it, but he is.
This one song is in English or alternatively, you could sing it with the first
part being in German, the second part I believe Yiddish, and the third part in
Hebrew. This choir director wants to do all these other languages, I don't
know why, instead of the English. The translation into grade 2 with these
other languages, which my husband painstakingly typed out for me, just was hard
to follow. The German wasn't too bad, though when I took it in high school, I
didn't exactly use grade 2 braille in German. And when you came to the
Yiddish, since I don't know Yiddish at all, I couldn't tell if it was supposed
to be the letter D or do (the contraction for do being D). how can I prepare
these so they will look correct in braille, especially not knowing these
languages? They are all part of the same song. I realize maybe I can separate
the files and then put them together, but even so, though Duxbury may have a
German template, I very much don't think Yiddish is one available nor Hebrew.
I may have to just give up on this one.
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