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Duxbury Braille Translator Description
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Most people understand the basics about braille: that it provides
a reading medium for blind people, using "cells"
made up of raised dots in various patterns instead of the
characters used in regular print.
But many people do not realize
that the cells-for-characters substitutions are not, typically,
on a one-for-one basis. The process is especially complicated
in languages such as English and French where "grade
2" braille is used, involving "contractions"
that are based in part upon pronunciation. Formatting of braille
pages also involves issues beyond those affecting print. DBT
provides translation and formatting facilities to automate
the process of conversion from regular print to braille (and
vice versa), and also provides word-processing facilities
for working directly in the braille as well as the print.
"Fonts" are used for displaying the braille.
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