[duxuser] Re: your web site
- From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:11:17 -0000
Hi Jenny,
I know we've spoken by telephone, but for the benefit of anyone else
interested in producing Russian braille, here is the explanation from
the DBT Help files which explains the use of Word and Unicode Character
Set to produce Cyrilic.
George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS
Because DBT cannot at present (November 2001) display Cyrillic
characters properly, it is necessary to use an external word processor
to compose and edit the print text that is to be translated. It is also
necessary to use a facility that encodes the text in Unicode so that it
can be imported correctly to DBT. (Some methods of entering Cyrillic
rely upon a variant "font" to display standard ASCII characters as
Cyrillic. Those methods cannot be used, as those ASCII characters would
be imported according to their standard interpretation, not as Cyrillic
characters.)
Microsoft Word, properly used, fulfills the above requirements. Use the
Lucida Sans Unicode font, and a Russian (or Cyrillic) keyboard, when
entering the Russian text.
True braille-to-print translation is supported only within any embedded
English text, not in the Russian/Cyrillic text. This means that it is
not generally useful to translate the Russian braille file to print. It
also means that the "translated line" will typically contain gibberish
when viewing the braille file -you may prefer to turn off the
"translated line" under the View menu, or even under Global/Default if
you wish it to be off by default.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jenny O'Sullivan [mailto:j.o'sullivan@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 January 2003 11:34
> To: duxuser
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: your web site
>
>
>
> Has anyone had experience of using Duxbury to translate
> Russian text into Braille. I know that Duxbury should be
> able to support Russian but we are experiencing difficulties
> in that what is being translated and embossed are not
> correct. Is Duxbury able to recognise the Cyrillic alphabet?
> I must confess I am a novice to Braille translators and am
> writing on behalf of a student of ours who is Studying
> Russian. Any suggestions or guidance with this would be
> greatly appreciated!
>
> Jenny O'Sullivan
> Disability Support Officer,
> Registrar's Division,
> University College London,
> Gower Street,
> London,
> WC1E 6BT
>
> tel: 020 7679 2779 (ext. 32779)
> Fax: 020 76798530
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf > Of Braille
> Computing
> Sent: 13 January 2003 07:55
> To: duxuser
> Subject: [duxuser] your web site
>
>
> Hello George,
>
> I copied the following statement from Duxbury site in
> regards to the
> training:
>
> "TRAINING: For details of our October training classes,
> please click here."
> Which October you are talking about?
> Thanks!
>
> Point your Browser to:
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/tamru
>
> Cordially,
>
> Tamru E. Belay Mr.
>
> Adaptive Technology Centre for the Blind ATCB
>
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