Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-20 Thread Don Breda
Perky Duck is a free program from Duxbury Systems Inc. This program was developed many years ago at the request of the library of congress to make it possible for people to take the braille certification courses without having to use a braillewriter. It basicly is a perkins brailler on your c

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
An other very useful thing about P D is that it works for my braille music writing. I get people to dictate music I need and only want an easy way to type Braille without having to bend over backwards typing all the strange symbols required for Braille music on qwerty. Sure best thing would be

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Paul. Perky Duck (runs on Windows these days) i/ a braille writer emulator. It's a free program, and a lot of prospective braille transcribers use it. You can use the computer keyboard--the home rows--to input grade 2 braille. It has some severe limitations, but it's useful for people who wan

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
lol, You took the words right out of my mouth. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 19, 2012, at 6:49 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Whaton God's green earth is Perky Duck!? :) > On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Don Breda wrote: > >> Well res

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Paul Hunt
What is Perky Duck? On Apr 19, 2012, at 4:42 AM, Don Breda wrote: > Well rest assured there will be a version of the DBT braille translator for > the Mac hopefully with in the next six months or so and then of course perky > duck for the mac. > > Just hold on. > > Don > > > > On 4/18/2012

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Donna Goodin
Whaton God's green earth is Perky Duck!? :) On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Don Breda wrote: > Well rest assured there will be a version of the DBT braille translator for > the Mac hopefully with in the next six months or so and then of course perky > duck for the mac. > > Just hold on. > > Don >

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-19 Thread Don Breda
Well rest assured there will be a version of the DBT braille translator for the Mac hopefully with in the next six months or so and then of course perky duck for the mac. Just hold on. Don On 4/18/2012 3:40 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: I used to love typing braille on y pc with that program a

Re: equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Ioana. I have giving some thought to doing this, but haven't yet had the time to play with it. If you don't have a braille display with input keys, I guess this won't work. I suspect it would work if you wanted a braille file 2`o turn on computer braille and just tyse in grade 2 in TextEdi

equivalent of perky duck equivalent for mac?

2012-04-18 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
I used to love typing braille on y pc with that program and have to found any way to do this on mac. I am getting by typing the qwerty equivalents but if there is anything out there would love to find it. Thanks for your help. Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes an