translating in to braille

translating in to braille

[Danny Crone]

Hello.  What software can be used to translate text in to braille using 
linux?
What ssoftware should be used to send the braille to an embosser?

Re: translating in to braille

[Alex Snow]

Hi.  I may be wrong but I think nfbtrans can be built under linux.  I seem
to remember something about changing the case of the file names in the
archive to lower case for it to work but I don't remember if there were any
other modifications.

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From: "Danny Crone" <dannyboy@pobox.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: translating in to braille


> Hello.  What software can be used to translate text in to braille using
> linux?
> What ssoftware should be used to send the braille to an embosser?
>
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translating in to braille

[Ann Parsons]

Hi all,

Danny, there are two translators that I know of.  The best one is TBRL
by Chuck Hollenbeck and I don't have the URL for it.  Next is NFBTrans
which has a Linux version and has a back translator which TBRL doesn't
have yet. 

Ann P.

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Re: translating in to braille

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Ann Parsons wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Danny, there are two translators that I know of.  The best one is TBRL
> by Chuck Hollenbeck and I don't have the URL for it.  Next is NFBTrans
> which has a Linux version and has a back translator which TBRL doesn't
> have yet.
>
> Ann P.

The URL  for Turbo Braille is:
http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh/tbrl-0.5.tar.gz
Some day it should have a back translator and a decent manual,
and there should be world peace too!

Chuck


-- 
The Moon is New
 Get my public key from website, http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh

Re: translating in to braille

[Ann Parsons]

Hi all,

<smiling>  Hey, if I keep praying, I know we'll get world peace.
Maybe if I ask about the back translator, that will come too.  It
would be nice to be able to use one program for everything, is all.  I
get books from Web-Braille, and because I don't have a note-taker yet,
I have to back translate 'em in order to read them.  It would just
make life simpler is all.  

Hey, if you want a writer for your manual, I can put words together.
So, ...

Ann P.
 
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