jonathon wrote: > Peter wrote: > >> Braille is good - but it relies on presence of a braille terminal - I > > Braille printer, not a Braille terminal.
Is this really a function of te programme and not one of the printer driver? >> understand they are very expensive and not overly comfortable - so many >> people rely on screen readers > > There are two major reasons why Braille Displays are not in common use: > * A very low percentage of people who are blind can read Braille; > * Braille monitors are very expensive. (Budget US$5K for the cheap models The prices I found were similar. > They are comfortable to use. (Speaking both from personal experience, > and talking to people who are blind.) Good to know. >> - which in turn will make it hard for us to find anyone actually testing the >> programmes. > > If a program works with a regular display monitor, it will work with a > Braille display unit. Good to know. >> is the most suitable way forward and will come back. > > I think DM Smith was asking for something that would convert the text > to Braille, so it could be printed out. If that isn't what was being > requested, then a clarification is needed. Again, I would think that this is the function of the printer driver - you simply print out your passages and that should be it. > Along those lines, a tool to transliterate Greek, Hebrew, etc in the > Latin writing system might be a useful addition. This tool exists. I am just now searching for it. I had saw in Ubuntu repositories. There is also toCyrillic a frirefox addon which does the same job. > xan > > jonathon > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
