Formatting of Web Braille Files

[Christopher Phillips]

Hello everyone, 

As you likely know, we currently offer web braille files online at http://braille.lds.org.  We generally take the files that are used to emboss our braille materials and make them available online with the same formatting used for embossing. We have received some good feedback that we should consider a few formatting changes for the online files.  If any of you are willing to review a couple of files with some of these changes made and provide some feedback, please send me an email at disab...@ldschurch.org.  

This is an important (and somewhat urgent) decision for a project, if you have an opinion on online braille files, please take a minute to let us know! 

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[parakeet]

I personally do not care if we have all the formatting.

I find it takes up a lot of  extra space on my Pac Mate.

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[mary jo hartle]

HI all, Recently, our ward clerk offered to order a Braille hymn book for us.  It arrived last week, but it looks like there are some major problems with it.  For starters, it was only the index that appears in the last half of the hymn book.  The print on the front cover and first page say that it is the words only (meaning no illustrations I guess) and just the index.  But, it also says “In one volume.”.  The first page of Braille however says that this is volume 3.  So, apparently there has been some printing or proofing error somewhere in the production.  So, how does one go about getting the other two volumes of Braille?  Where can we get just the words to the hymns and not the index?  WE looked online again, and there is nothing else listed for hymns.  If there is no Braille copy of the hymns, can anyone direct me to where I could download the brf of the hymns?  I know this exists as I used to have it on my Braille note. (copied it from a friend though so I never actually downloaded it.)  If we could get that file, we could just emboss it ourselves maybe.  Anyway, any light you all could shed on this matter would be great.  Basically, we just want a Braille copy of the words to the hymns so we can sing along more during sacrament meetings.

Thanks.

Mary JO Hartle

 

 

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Subject: [BlindLDS] Formatting of Web Braille Files

 

Hello everyone, 

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[Linda Reeder]

I am willing to help.  Linda Reeder

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[Sandy England]

I will send you a email regarding this.  You can put it on a SD card and play it on your Victor

 

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[Linda Reeder]

Mary I have a copy of the hymn book on my APEX braille note and I would be glad to send you a copy.  Send me your email address and I will send it to you.  I don't know where you got that book from.  First of all It is in two volumes not three I have a copy of it from along time ago.  You can get it from the distribution center.  Also it is available on the church web site but it is down right now because I just tried it and that is what the message said Linda Reeder

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Subject: [BlindLDS] Aquiring a braille hymn book

[mary jo hartle]

Great.  Thanks.  I am thinking than the actual words to the hymns are in 2 vols. And the third is the index, in 1 volume.  At least, that is what the braille on the inside cover seems to indicate.  Either way, I think there has been some major mix up with the print and the braille in the hymnbook in Braille because they don’t match up.  This would not surprise me as the braille in the Book of Mormon version is terrible too—mistakes all over it and columns where there are dots missing repeatedly.  Anyway, that’s another issue.  

In any case, if you have a brf of the hymns and don’t mind sharing it, I would really appreciate it.  My email is mjhar...@gmail.com

Thanks so much!

Mary Jo

 

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[Linda Reeder]

I sent it let me know if you get it.  The hard book that I have is two volumes and the index is in volume 2  I have had it for many years.  Linda Reeder

[Sherri]

Sometimes, the ward clerks get it wrong. The hymn book is in 3 volumes. the first 2 have the words to the hymns and the third volume I believe is the index. I only own the first 2 volumes.

 

Before they revised the hymn books about 20 years ago or so, APH published a 2-volume set that had words, music and index. It was a traditional hard-covered set.

 

I have a BrailleNote Apex and have mine on it, which I think is very convenient, but of course, without a battery charge, it won't work, so a hard copy is good. *smile. Hope you have success getting the correct volumes.

 

sherri

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