Galaxy of Home Office Help - Fonts/font.bin/b/brlkiama.txt

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BRLKiama - BCC braille truetype font
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What's this?
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BrailleKiama is a truetype font containing the 64 six-dot braille
characters.  The character asignments are those used in the US
braille computer code.

What's it for?
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You can't make braille using this font!  To make braille you need a
special type of printer called an embosser, which imprints the braille
cells on special paper, making raised dots which people can read using
the sense of touch.

You also probably need a transcription program, like Duxbury, NFBTrans,
HotDots, Dotmaster, PCBraille or TurboBraille, to convert your text into
braille code.  I am not going to explain braille contractions here - but
I will say that no computer program can give 100% accurate braille
transcription, essentially because many of the contraction rules are
context dependent.  Therefore people will often need to make corrections
to the braille obtained from these programs.

Embosser paper is expensive and voluminous, though, and it's a bit of
a drag to print out a large document for proofreading.

...so what you can do is read the braille code into a word processor,
convert it to the BrailleKiama font, and proof read it, and correct it
on the screen before printing out.  Alternatively you can print out
on plain paper to proof read away from the pc.
For best results use point sizes somewhere between 22 and 32.  For easy
reading on screen, depending on how your monitor is set up, you may also
need to change the line spacing to say 1.2 lines.

To make corrections, you need to know the braille computer code (see
the table at the end of this file).  Or, if you mail Paul Blenkhorn
[e-mail], he might send you a copy of his six-key input
program, which simulates the action of a Perkins Brailler.

Who dunnit?
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The font was produced for me, Ian Kemp, by John Barrett-Lennard and
Gunnlauger Briem.

What's it cost?
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It's free, public domain, do what you want with it.  However, please don't
try to sell it to anyone, as it is free, public domain.  Anyone who tries
to sell what we have produced for free will be publicly vilified on the net!

If you feel embarrassed about having such a handy thing for free, please
salve your conscience by sending a $20 donation to the NSW Royal Blind Society.
Send your money to Jim Bates, NSW Royal blind Society, PO Box 176, Burwood,
NSW 2134, Australia.

What else?
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If you have any questions about braille, please contact your local society for
the blind.  If you have any specific comments on this font, or about computer
braille transcription, you can contact me as a last resort,
Ian Kemp, [e-mail], or [e-mail].

Character map
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The following table lists what characters are where.  I have tested the font
with MS Word for Windows V6.0, and MS-Write.  Judith Dixon has tested the font
with Word Perfect for Dos V6.0b.

To get the extended characters in WFW, hold down the alt- key & type the
digit number indicated, on the numeric keypad.  Alternately use 'Insert|Symbol'
to insert the character.  In Word Perfect, insert extended characters using the
appropriate compose sequence.

Code dots  char  meaning
032 ......       space
033 .234.6 !     the
034 ....5. "     dot-5
035 ..3456 #     ble
036 12.4.6 $     ed
037 1..4.6 %     sh
038 1234.6 &     and
039 ..3... '     apostrophe
040 123.56 (     of
041 .23456 )     with
042 1....6 *     ch
043 ..34.6 +     ing
044 .....6 ,     dot-6
045 ..3..6 -     com
046 ...4.6 .     dot-46
047 ..34.. /     st
048 ..3.56 0     unquote
049 .2.... 1     ea
050 .23... 2     be
051 .2..5. 3     con
052 .2..56 4     .
053 .2...6 5     en
054 .23.5. 6     to
055 .23.56 7     gg
056 .23..6 8     quote
057 ..3.5. 9     in
058 1...56 :     wh
059 ....56 ;     dot-56
060 12...6 <     gh
061 123456 =     for
062 ..345. >     ar
063 1..456 ?     th
064 ...4.. @     dot-4
065 1..... A     a
066 12.... B     b
067 1..4.. C     c
068 1..45. D     d
069 1...5. E     e
070 12.4.. F     f
071 12.45. G     g
072 12..5. H     h
073 .2.4.. I     i
074 .2.45. J     j
075 1.3... K     k
076 123... L     l
077 1.34.. M     m
078 1.345. N     n
079 1.3.5. O     o
080 1234.. P     p
081 12345. Q     q
082 123.5. R     r
083 .234.. S     s
084 .2345. T     t
085 1.3..6 U     u
086 123..6 V     v
087 .2.456 W     w
088 1.34.6 X     x
089 1.3456 Y     y
090 1.3.56 Z     z
091 .2.4.6 [     ow
092 12..56 \     ou
093 12.456 ]     er
094 ...45. ^     dot-45
095 ...456 _     dot-456
096 ...4.. `     dot-4
097 1..... a     a
098 12.... b     b
099 1..4.. c     c
100 1..45. d     d
101 1...5. e     e
102 12.4.. f     f
103 12.45. g     g
104 12..5. h     h
105 .2.4.. i     i
106 .2.45. j     j
107 1.3... k     k
108 123... l     l
109 1.34.. m     m
110 1.345. n     n
111 1.3.5. o     o
112 1234.. p     p
113 12345. q     q
114 123.5. r     r
115 .234.. s     s
116 .2345. t     t
117 1.3..6 u     u
118 123..6 v     v
119 .2.456 w     w
120 1.34.6 x     x
121 1.3456 y     y
122 1.3.45 z     z
123 .2.4.6 {     ow
124 12..56 |     ou
125 12.456 }     er
126 ...45. ~     dot-45
127
128 1234.6 C-ced fr
129 12..56 u-uml fr, ger, sp
130 123456 e-acu fr
131 1....6 a-cir fr, it
132 ..345. a-uml ger
133 123.56 a-gra fr, it
134 ..34.6 a-o   swe
135 1234.6 c-ced fr
136 12...6 e-cir fr, it
137 12.4.6 e-uml fr
138 .234.6 e-gra fr, it
139 12.456 i-uml fr
140 1..4.6 i-cir fr, it
141 ..34.. i-gra it
142 ..345. A-uml ger
143 ..34.6 A-o   swe
144 123456 E-acu fr
145 ..345. ae    fr
146 ..345. AE    fr
147 1..456 o-cir fr, it
148 .2.4.6 o-uml ger
149 ..34.6 o-gra it
150 1...56 u-cir fr, it
151 .23456 u-gra fr, it
152 1.3456 y-uml
153 .2.4.6 O-uml ger
154 12..56 U-uml fr, it, ger
155 1..4.. cent  c
156 123... Pound l
157 1.3456 Yen   y
158 1234.. Pre   p
159 12.4.. fl    f
160 123.56 a-acu sp
161 ..34.. i-acu sp
162 ..34.6 o-acu sp
163 .23456 u-acu sp
164 12.456 n-til sp
165 12.456 N-til sp
    ..34.6 O-gra it
    1..456 O-cir fr, it

Good Luck!


  _-_|\      Ian Kemp.
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 \_.-. X <-- Kiama, nr. Wollongong, Australia.
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Thanks to:
John Barrett-Lennard [e-mail]
Gunnlauger Briem     [e-mail]
Judith Dixon         [e-mail]

Braille font version 3, 15th April 1995.