Hi, I am interested in using groff for formatting braille documents and would appreciate feedback. Here are a few of the big picture issues.
The 63 braille cells are represented by a transliteration to ASCII characters. However, some of the assignments are arbitrary so that, for example, the ASCII post-punctuation marks stand for braille cells that can be used before or in the middle of a word. Formatting braille is very similar to formatting print using a fixed-width font. All of the braille cells (including the space) are the same size and a page is characterized by the maximum number of braille cells that will fit on a line (typically 32-40) and the maximum number of lines on a page (typically 25). It would be very nice to have a device-independent format so the same braille file could be embossed with different page sizes and with the page numbers adjusted accordingly. Thanks in advance for any help, Susan Jolly www.dotlessbraille.org _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
