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

[Tom Moore]

Hi,
Another thing you may want to look at is that in later versions of the
firmware they have translation built into the device.
You can upload the document into the printer's web interface and it has some
ability to do translation.

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Brian Buhrow
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 2:13 PM
To: Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater at gmail.com>; Informal discussion between users
and developers of BRLTTY. <brltty at brltty.app>
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] OT: embossing to network Index DV5 from Linux

	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
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