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[pne]

,happy bir?"d1 p?alo6

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[spongebobjess.livejournal.com]

...yeah?

SBj

[pne.livejournal.com]

:)

[tungol.livejournal.com]

What does " represent?

" in SimBraille

[pne.livejournal.com]

" stands for dot-5. (And dot-5 plus dots-145 is "day".)

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

Obviously I know what you're trying to say, but this form of notation is totally unfamiliar to me...

Re: " in SimBraille

[tungol.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes sense. I had guessed that 1 stood for ay rather than punctuation, so couldn't figure out why something would precede d.

[pne.livejournal.com]

It's ASCII Braille, intended to be displayed with the "SimBraille" font (which shows dot patterns rather than letters).

Grade 1 (uncontracted) Braille would be more readable, since Braille letters map to ASCII letters, but with Grade 2 (contracted) Braille, the contractions as well as symbols used to introduce them will display as various punctuation characters. (In both cases, though, Braille punctuation will appear as numbers, e.g. 4 = full stop, 7 = parenthesis, 1 = comma, 6 = exclamation mark.)

1 in SimBraille

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah, no. 1 is dot-2 (comma, in this case; as a letter combination, it's 'ea').

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I must be getting better at braille. It took me a moment to realize this wasn't regular inktype. :)

[pthalo]

?ank y

[pne.livejournal.com]

Do you have the SimBraille font? If not, installing it will let you see dots instead of letters in the text of this entry where I specified use of that font. (You can get it from this page (http://www.brl.org/simbraille.html), for example.)