got a lr f p{th}alo td

[pne]

(Well, actually yesterday, but I didn't read it till today.)

Thanks! And glad that the stylus got there all right.

I even managed to read nearly all of it :) In a couple of places, I couldn't quite make out what it said, probably because some of the dots were reflected or something.

And I'm glad you didn't write in full grade 2 contracted braille, because I don't know all the contractions yet :) The ones you did use I either knew or could puzzle together quickly enough.

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[pthalo]

ooh, I'm glad y got x! I s{en}t y a po{st}c{ar}d too a few days ago. :) Postc{ar}ds {ar}e nice & {th}ick {wh} makes {the}m nice {for} writ{ing} brl.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I sometimes wonder whether it mightn't sometimes be convenient to use Braille contractions when writing normal text to save some space :)

Single-letter contractions and whole-word contractions would probably work best, as with the things such as {ar} and {day} and {for} you'd have to memorise seemingly-arbitrary symbols to stand for those Braille patterns. (& for {and} is pretty straight-forward, but % for {for} is less so. And then different fonts disagree in the symbol-to-pattern assignment; at least, German pseudo-Braille fonts seem to use a different system than US ones.)