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- From: dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil (Jude DaShiell)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Talking Books, Electronic Textbooks, Etc.
- Message-ID: <26925@handicap.news>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:29:57 GMT
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- Reply-To: dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil (Jude DaShiell)
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- Index Number: 26925
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- [Forwarded from the BLIND-L mailing list]
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- There's not that much in translation difficulties since books are
- transmitted on compositor's tapes. These tapes can be converted to
- ascii files easily enough since Brian Kernighan worked on a project
- with national braille press but they did it in a more difficult way since
- as I understand it the translation was from compositor's tapes to grade 2
- braille code directly. That's how the C programming language first edition
- made it into braille. I hope the second edition will come out soon too
- but depending on the difficulties it may not be worth it.
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- jude <dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>
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