[BRLTTY] OT: embossing to network Index DV5 from Linux

[Devin Prater]

But when I sent a word file to it, it embossed in grade two UEB, just no 
formatting. I tried with HTML, and the heading was formatted correctly, 
but it's in computer braille.

On 12/16/20 1:12 PM, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	hello Devin.  The Index embosser is an embosser, not a formatter.
> What that means is that the files you send to it must be formatted in the manner
> you want them embossed.  If you send text files, you'll get computer
> braille, since there is a 1 to 1 mapping between the ASCII codes and
> embossed braille symbols.  In fact, to clarify further, the Index expects
> you to send ASCII files containing the symbols arranged to produce the
> braille you want to read in the format you want to read it.  In other
> words, if you want to send Microsoft Word documents to the embosser and you
> want them to be formatted in a certain way, you need to convert them into
> ASCII files that are formatted in accoradance with your needs.  The most
> common commercial tool that does this is Duxbury Systems, but Liblouis and
> some other tools from APH can produce well formatted brf (braille formatted
> ASCII) files from Word documents.  I use NFB Trans, an old  grade II
> translator that works well, but doesn't produce UEB English braille.
> Glad you got it working.  Now comes the hard part of producing well formed
> content for it.
> -thanks
> -Brian