Actually I kind of like typeinbraille but I think I will be much faster with BrailleTouch.
-- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 4, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Lisette Wesseling <lisettewessel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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