From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 11698 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1996 16:34:36 -0000 Received: from Ocean.CAM.ORG (198.168.100.5) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 1996 16:34:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (nico@localhost) by Ocean.CAM.ORG (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA09913; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 11:33:43 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Ocean.CAM.ORG: nico owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 11:33:41 -0500 (EST) From: Nicolas Pitre To: avi shaby cc: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: 6 dots and 8 dots braille In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961006152049.0067784c@netvision.net.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, avi shaby wrote: > hi , > is there a future for the eight dots braille ? > if yes , is it spreading rapidly ? Every common braille terminals uses 8 dots braille because it can represent 256 patterns (including the blank). You can then have a direct mapping between braille paterns and the ASCII character table. Usually, when you talk about computer braille, it's in 8 dots. But for paper braille, it's very rare you'll see 8 dots braille. Paper braille is usually made of 6 dots braille with conventionnal "escape" sequences and syntax. > avi > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe > > nico@cam.org Nicolas Pitre ing. stag.