[BRLTTY] Brltty's Braille codes

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
I am not quite sure how to word my question, so it may get slightly
long, so accept my apollogies in advance and be patient.

Usually I am using brltty with its text.nabcc table in 8-dot mode. This
is normally how I deal with all computer programming (and so all
computer code). I will be taking the SCJP exam soon, and Sun have agreed
that they can get a paper Braille copy of the exam for me to use in the
exam (this is due to their lack of any Brailling facilities so they are
going to get it done by an external transcriber). Ideally I am wanting
NABCC 8-dot for the code snippets as this is what I have always used for
java code, but from some initial discussions with transcribers here in
the UK, it seems like they may only offer BAUK 6-dot Braille. I may be
able to learn this in time, but I won't get efficient with it unless I
am actually using it regularly, so I could do with setting up brltty to
use the code I need to learn.

Having a look through the brltty configuration options, I can only find
the text.en_UK table, and when brltty is set to 6-dot it didn't seem to
use the full 6-dot code (eg. it seemed to just leave off dots 7 and 8,
so { and [ characters appeared the same). There didn't seem to be a
suitable contraction table to use for the british code (unless I have
missed something).

So my questions:
Is it possible to set brltty to use the standard BAUK 6-dot code?
Is there any other english code that brltty could be set to which would
make it produce the same code as an embosser would when driven by
software (eg. Duxbury) (as it seems very unlikely I am going to find
anyone who actually knows the code unless it is the BAUK code).
On the slight chance, if anyone knows a transcription service in the UK
who could actually do NABCC 8-dot for the code snippets then could you
pass me the details.
Can anyone think of any other solution (eg. how possible might it be to
get the exam transcribed electronically in another country (eg. US) and
then use that Braille file to physically emboss in the UK).

Also sorry if some of it is off topic for here, but as one approach is
to try and configure brltty to give me the same output I will get from
an embosser, I felt it was worth asking.

Thanks for your time.

Michael Whapples