A braille display, is a device which has a single line of Braille cells,
which operate using pins which move up and down. a line of the screen at a
time is sent to the display.
I hope this helps. If you have any further questions I will attempt to
answer them for you.
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From: Lenny & Edith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 March 1999 16:00
Subject: jfw and braille
>Every once in a while I see mentions of braille and braille displays on the
>forum. What does that mean? How can a blind person see a braille
>display? Somebody put a braille display font from Duxenberry into our
>Word Pad (in a school computer lab) and we can convert Word Pad text in
>into braille. I can see it but don't know Braille. By braille display,
>are they really talking about a Braille printer.?
>
>We have an old donated Braillo 60 printer and printed this Word Pad text.
> Our blind students said it was not right. There were extra dots and
>other things wrong. I think the printer might be set up for German
>characters. Is there anything in jfw that might help us print correctly?
>
>
>lenny
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