You know, I do remember hearing David say that the app was developed by
someone over in Italy, so, now that you mention it, I suppose you're right
on the different standards. I forget that just because it's English doesn't
mean that English uses all one braille table. So yeah, you have a very very
good point that I didn't even admittedly consider.
Thank you kindly,
Christopher-Mark Gilland.
Founder of CLG Productions
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From: "Lisette Wesseling" <lisettewessel...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: TypeInBraille: Leaves a lot to be desired
Hi Chris
I have this app and never use it because I find the order of having to write
in cumbersome.
That said, there are actually various braille standards around the world and
some of the symbols this app uses are correct for those standards. For
example, in many European countries the capital sign is dots 46 and the
period is dot 3. I wonder if this app was designed with them in mind?
As far as I know though, semicolon is dots 23 in American or English
braille. I think question mark might be the th sign.
It's not an app designed for English grade Two use which is why I never use
it. I don't know about the brackets sorry.
If I were you, I'd hold off until the braille touch app becomes available in
the app store this month.
www.brailletouchapp.com is the website I believe.
Type in braille is, like many of these braille apps, an interesting idea
which doesn't really work in practice.
Just my opinion. I haven't read the review but would probably disagree with
it from the sound of what you say.
Lisette
On 5/01/2013, at 12:50 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland"
<clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, I was all? most! convinced to buy this app after hearing David's
review on AppleVis. Before I go any further, let me just say that I'm
referring to the TypeInBraille I O S app. So again, this is for I O S,
not for O S X.
I then heard a few things which really! were deal breakers. I'm just
wonderring if someone can answer a few questions, and maybe help me
understand the logic of a few things.
First, the logic side of it:
1. dot 3 is a period? Huh? I thought that a period would be dots 2, 5,
6 in grade 2 braille, or in computer braille, would be dots 4 6. So then,
how do you make an apostrophy which normally is! dot 3, both in grade 2,
as well as in computer braille? OK, this leads me to the next point.
2. Dots 4 6 is a capital letter? I thought 4 6 was a period in computer
braille, and in grade 2, if written by itself was the bold face indicator.
3. Slash is a low d? 2, 4, 5? I thought that was the number 4 in
computer braille, or a period in grade 2 or a dd sign if in the middle of
a word, or d i s sign at the beginning of a word.
4. Semicolon is dots 2 3? Wut? I thought 2 3 was a bb sign in grade 2,
or in computer braille was the number 2.
5. Dot 5 is an at simmble? I thought that was dot 4. More specifically,
I always learned it as dot 4 A.
Now for my questions.
1. Can we not type in grade 2 and have it translate?
2. How do I type an exclaimation mark?
3. If dot 5 is the at simble, then how do I do my quote marks? Is that
still low h to start, and low j to end like in grade 2?
4. How do I do a question mark?
5. Are my left and right parenthesis still written with the o f sign, and
the with sign or do I do that more like grade 2, with low g both ways,
etc.
I dono... There are just enough things here that do not seem to follow
correct braille standard from what I can see, that I really am not totally
sure until I understand why they couldn't have incorporated correct
braille characterization that make this a major! major major! deal breaker
for me. Plus, I'd like to know if grade 2's an option. If it is, and
someone can explain to me why such strange ways of writing some a those
characters, then? I might! key word, might! consider buying it, but I need
some clarification first. I'm not trying to complain, believe me. It's
just that when I've been tought correct braille, it's very confusing
trying to change to another form which may as wel almost be it's own
seperet braille table in itself. Maybe I'm just too picky, I dono, but
I'd rather it be done correctly, ya know?
Thank you kindly,
Christopher-Mark Gilland.
Founder of CLG Productions
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