In my Windows time there was a german program for this called BKCom. Never liked it very much because writing braille on these smal keyboard keys wasn’t very funny. I wouldn’t need to write braille on a normal keyboard. But anyway there might be a group of people who really would appreciate this function. So give them the suggestion.To have a keyboard shortcut for this would be great.
Yes, german braille is well designed but to complicated in its exception rules for automated processes. There was a person named Wolfgang Hubert who collected all exeptional rules and put it in a database. Rumors say it has more then 1 million entries and he seems not to be willing to share it with Apple or Apple might be not interested in it. For example: if you put an f at the end of a word it means a certain endig but only if it sits at the end of certain words. At the end of other words it’s just meant as an f. The computer needs to know in which case which end to put, And this is very difficult in german. Apple uses a free available braille contraction table for german braille but this is very unprecise in terms of these rules. And so it’s not funny to use Apples version of contracted braille in german. And to stress the stereotype once again: german things are mostly well done but sometimes too complicated. ;-) > Am 27.05.2019 um 17:27 schrieb B G <benjigra...@gmail.com>: > > Good point. How about having a hotkey toggle for switching in an out > of Braille input mode? Say, VO with some key or another to turn on > Braille and a chorded shortcut to switch back to the qwerty layout. > You can't use more than one keyboard at a time in any case. > > I was under the impression that German Braille was very well > constructed albeit a little rule-heavy, not wishing to get into German > stereotypes, of course. *smile* > Ben > > > On 5/27/19, Jürgen Fleger <mailinglis...@fleger.net> wrote: >> I’d personally prefere only a solution via the Trackpad. I’d like to keep >> both input methods simultaniously usable, normal keaboard via the Keyboard >> and braille keyboard via Trackpad. Otherwise what’s the benefit changing >> keyboard layout of the normal keyboard? Especially because contracted >> braille in my mother tongue, german, is a little catastrophy. It’s so full >> of wrong contraction rules it’s nearly useless. And I’m writing very fast >> using my 10 fingers. But to have both methods abailable at the same time >> would be very handy. >> Jürgen >>> Am 27.05.2019 um 16:32 schrieb 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries >>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>: >>> >>> it's called 6-key entry. >>> >>> From E.T.'s Keyboard... >>> ancient.ali...@icloud.com >>> Many believe that we have been visited >>> in the past. What if it were true? >>> >>> On 5/27/2019 3:48 AM, B G wrote: >>>> One could have some of the qwerty keys turned into Braille input keys >>>> - similar to the the idea originally introduced by Duxbury in the >>>> 90's. 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