[duxuser] Re: computer braille
- From: "Lisette Wesseling" <Lisette.Wesseling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 20:03:50 -0000
Hi George and all
Thanks for the hhelpful explanations George and others, it's clear as mud.
NO really, it's fine. I still think the compinline style should have a
hyphen (dot 5) to indicate end of a line and as somebody who grew up with
American braille I think the UK computer code is completely daft, but there
you go. That's for another list.
Thanks to all.
Cheers
Lisette
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <gwfb16@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:11 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: computer braille
Hi Lisette,
Oh boy! Something I've recently genned up on.
I should first explain that "compinline" is a Character Style, whereas
"compdisplay." is a Paragraph Style.
The next thing I have to admit about the "compinline" and "compdisplay."
Styles as far as BRITISH Computer braille in DBT is concerned, is that the
Codes for "Compdisplay." are wrong.
[George: Remember to send amended Styles to Duxbury for UK and advise list
of how to amend Styles.]
"compinline" does what it should do, and embraces the text with a Dot 4 ing
sign.
However, "compdisplay" should begin the section of text with a row of
centered ow signs, and end with a row of centered o's.
Bear in mind that with computer type text, we might be talking about say the
term, "FPRINT" in a normal sentence like this, which needs to be shown as a
computer term.
However, if listing dozens of lines of computer program code, it obviously
makes sense to "group" such lines of text.
Now, the letter sign question.
It is usually extremely important to know the case of letters in computer
program code, and going back a thousand years, program code was once almost
all in upper case.
So, British computer braille dictates that upper case letters are the
default. If you start with upper case, there is no dot 6 case indicator.
But change to lower case, and dots 5,6 are used to indicate lower case
begins. When reverting to upper case, dot 6 is used. As long as you
continue in Upper Case, you'll never see a dot 6 capital sign afterwards.
Confused? Call me or Neil.
George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
>Hello all
>
>Could somebody please explain what the difference is between compinline and
>comp display? When I tried using the compinline style in the British
>Braille
>template I got something which looks like British computer braille but
>with
>dot 6 ing sign before and after. Are these indicators now standard?
>And there was also a letter sign between the indicator and the first letter
>of the email address. Why? The address was in lower case but would this
>letter sign be necessary or should the absence of a capital sign be enough?
>This would be my opinion.
>And finally: DBT broke up the lines with no indication of hyphen or
>suchlike. Would the comp display do this better?
>Many thanks for any enlightenment.
>
>Lisette
>
>
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