[duxuser] Re: Translation nightmare
- From: "Steve Dresser" <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:28:25 -0500
Nicki,
I'd say your best bet is to tell Duxbury to switch to Grade I for anything but
English. That way, you won't have to worry about whether anything is
contracted or not. Accented letters, if any, will be preceded by dot 4, which
is the correct way to represent accented letters in standard English braille.
To switch to Grade I, place your cursor where you want to begin and type Alt-1.
To switch back to grade II, place your cursor at the appropriate spot and type
Alt-2. This may not be the perfect solution, but it's probably the best you
can do without using other language tables, which would probably just add more
confusion.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Nicki keck
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 21:01
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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