Braille resources

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Note to self:

• Kurze Einführung in die Blindenschrift (with notes on conversions to contracted brl in various languages, especially German) (may need IE for the special font)
• Grade 3 (English) Braille
• braille.ch—a wealth of information on Braille, especially with regard to German
• Punktabstand in der Brailleschrift
• International Council on English Braille: information especially for British Braille
• Fernstudium Punktschrift
• [[de:Brailleschrift]] and the useful weblinks at the end
• Verzeichnis von Regelwerken und Lehrbüchern der Blindenschrift
• "Kurzschrift für alle" – Lehrbuch der deutschen Blindenkurzschrift
• Foreign alphabets in Braille:
  • Specific languages:
    • Chinese in Braille
    • Arabic in Braille
    • Hebrew in Braille:
      • Hebrew and Arabic in Braille
      • Braille.ch
      • Wikipedia-he
    • Gaelic in Braille
    • Czech in Braille
    • Japanese in Braille:
      • Wikipedia-en
      • Wikipedia-ja
      • Japanese Braille Tutorial
    • Polish in Braille
    • Hungarian in Braille:
      • MVGYOSZ (Magyar Vakok és Gyengénlátók Országos Szövetsége)
      • A magyar Braille-abécé
      • Magyar Vakok és Gyengénlátók Országos Szövetsége Borsod
    • Thai in Braille
    • Russian in Braille
    • Dutch in Braille
    • Computer Braille, ISO-8859-1 Braille, Russian/Japanese/Korean/Chinese Braille, "Braille ASCII"
  • General presentations on Braille, specifically on accented letters:
    • Fremdsprachliche Akzentbuchstaben (not differentiated by language of origin)
    • Braille on Omniglot (with some accented letters; again, not distinguished by language)
    • Scripts for the blind (including Russian, Greek, Korean, and Chinese Braille)
• Computer Braille (for German)
• Braille-Tastatur für Winword
• Different categories of abbreviations used in RTFC (e.g. major part-word, short-form words, initial-letter, etc.)

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( Sunday )

I got home and found Stella and Amy fine; Stella said that she had come back on Saturday already because Amy had started having difficulty breathing, probably either from the bird my parents-in-law have or from the dust there. And since not being able to breathe through the nose made her Not a Happy Baby when her mouth was full of breast while feeding, this wasn't a terribly good state of affairs. Stella said that her breathing eased up very quickly after she had left the house for the train station. Fortunately, she also had no problems using the train ticket home, even though it was dated for Sunday.

Oh, and on Monday, I met Nina in the bus again and told her I had been to a meeting to speak Klingon, and she asked what that was good for :) Languages are fun!