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From: David.Andrews@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
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Subject: Re: braille
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Date: 26 Jul 90 17:21:28 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 AH> David: 
 AH>      Sorry about being so late with a response, but I moved.   
 AH>      Anyway, I really like you'alls attitude about support for  
 AH>  Turbo Braille--its probablly the best out, but Joe still is  
 AH>  nice to me even if my questions have at times taken him a long  
 AH>  time to answer. Let me play with this demo I have a TB and  
 AH>  I'll send you a list of "missings and wanted,".  I sort of  
 AH>  doubt my list would meet a lot of people's expectations, but  
 AH>  if I can make my program do what I want, they'll be surprised.  
 AH>   I don't think I am viewing translation in the same "black  
 AH>  box" mode as most people do, its more a process then just  
 AH>  "make me braille,".  There are a lot of variables as you know,  
 AH>  I think there are a lot of methods to achieve nearly perfect  
 AH>  braille format, composition, and output that haven't been  
 AH>  tried yet.  If I gave out my approach you'd get it done first.  
 AH>   Besides I'm probablly gonna give mine away, source and all.   
 AH>  Hope you like Pascal, thats the source language unless I get  
 AH>  kicked in the butt soon and rewrite this in C++. 
 
Al, Yes, Joe Sullivan is a nice guy.  When we introduced Turbo Braille, he came
up to me and introduced himself and wished us luck.  Duxbury is a good program,
and undoubtedly the most accurate.  It is a little expensive though and can be
complex to use.
I think braille translation is pretty straight forward, but the formatting sure
does get tricky.  Turbo Braille is written in C.  Chuck tells me that Pascal is
easier to write in, but does not have as much available as C, so a good
programmer will eventually runout of steam with pascal.  Looking forward to your
feedback.
David Andrews

... Your Sound Alternative

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