Hi there: Here's what I found in my wanderings. It's a program called fontabui whcih works with Perl. It'll translate any texst either in french grade 1 or 2. All o esess are supported. Check out: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~buisteri/fontabui/instfb.html Cheers, Martin > >Subject: french translation table for nfbtr > From: RAYNER Peter <peter.rayner@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:29:39 +1000 > To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >I need to learn French grade II braille. >I recently borrowed the "methode de stenographie" produced by the >Association Valentin Hauy. This undoubtedly contains the information >I need. The drawback is that it's written in grade II >braille. Now I do inverse problems for a living but this one's a bit >hard! > >One method I'd proposed to learn gradually was to take something like >the contraction table supplied with nfbtrans for english then learn >all the rules of a particular type. The advantage is you can practice >by producing a kind of grade I.3 that conforms to this partial >rule-set. I see rule types pertaining to French in the table but I >haven't seen a French table. Someone went looking for one a few >months ago but I didn't see an answer on the list, probably meaning >it doesn't exist. I'd love to be proved wrong though. > >I also tried contacting the maintainer but the address I had was >wrong. >Does anyone have such a table or equivalent rule-set for another >translator that runs under Linux? >Any other pointers to resources for learning this? >regards >Peter > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list