This is le brailletex incl boxdeftex introtex listingtex tablestex and exampletex ai The Br E font LL The Braille six dots typ esetting characters for blind p ersons c comp osed by Udo Heyl Germany in January Error Reports in case of UNCHANGED versions to Udo Heyl Stregdaer Allee Eisenach Federal Republic of Germany or DANTE Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung T X eV Postfach E Heidelb erg Federal Republic of Germany email dantedantede Intro duction Reference The software is founded on World Brail le Usage by Sir Clutha Mackenzie New Zealand Revised Edition Published by the United Nations Educational Scientic and Cultural Organization Place de Fontenoy Paris FRANCE and the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapp ed Library of Congress Washington DC USA ai What is Br E LL It is a fontwhich can b e read with the sense of touch and written via Braille slate or a mechanical Braille writer by blinds and extremly eyesight disabled The rst blind fontanight writing co de was an eight dot system invented by Charles Barbier for the Frencharmy The blind Louis Braille created a six dot system This system is used in the whole world nowadays In the Braille alphab et every character consists of parts of the six dots basic form with tworows of three dots Numb er and combination of the dots are dierent for the several characters and stops numbers have the same comp osition as characters a j Braille is read from left to right with the tips of the forengers The left forenger lightens to nd out the next line Exp erienced blinds maintain an average reading sp eed to read aloud ai The Br E le system LL A ai The Br E package is a le system to typ eset Braille typ os under L T X The METAFONT LL E ai source les of the Br E package are suxed mf alf def lig num and stp There are LL tfmles see The METAFONT mfles which pro duce when handed over to METAFONT book Chapter Running METAFONT Remember that T X only reads the TFM les These TFM les are a part of the package you dont E A have to pro duce them again just copytheminto your TFM directory For running b elowLT X E the style le braillesty in connection with the national language style les can b e used They A dont run under L T X E ai E package How to install the Br LL First and foremost youve got to copy the following les mf alf def lig num and stp into your METAFONT directory tfm into your TFM directory styinto your T Xinput directory E A Note however that the paths maybedierentinyour L T X implementation EmT XforMS E E A ai E which DOS webc for UNIX etc L T X is absolutely required if you wanttouseBr LL E A A do esnt run with the ancient L T X except you wanttowrite a L T X style le The E E ai E fonts example shows you the usage of some Br LL documentclassptarticle usepackagebraillebenglish to include English braille begindocument tbraille This is a test Braille text ABCDEFGHIJK braille This is medium Braille text ABCDEFGHIJK bbraille This is a bold Braille text ABCDEFGHIJK enddocument This is a test Braille text ABCDEFGHIJK This is medium Braille text ABCDEFGHIJK This is a bold Braille text ABCDEFGHIJK How to use these fonts ai You simply call the Br E package using the usepackagebrailleblanguage sequence LL ai The Br E family contains the following font shap es LL USUK Brailleco de braille bbraille tbraille medium b old and test font Czech Brailleco de CZbraille CZbbraille CZtbraille Danish Brailleco de DANbraille DANbbraille DANtbraille Europ ean Brailleco de EUbraille EUbbraille EUtbraille German Brailleco de GERbraille GERbbraille GERtbraille Polish Brailleco de POLbraille POLbbraille POLtbraille eg EmT X directory mfinputbraille E eg EmT X directory tfmbraille E eg EmT X directory texinputbraille E Portuguese Brailleco de PORbraille PORbbraille PORtbraille Spanish Brailleco de SPAbraille SPAbbraille SPAtbraille Note that the numb ers havethe same Braille characters as the letters a b c dj Therefore the numb er symbol has to b e placed b efore anynumber eg The next two examples show a German text to you To test the breaking of the lines you foremost typ eset the text using the GERtbraille command testmo de Afterwards this command can b e substituted by GERbbraille or GERbraille usepackagebraillebgerman LargeGERtbraille Die Blindenshrift kann von Blinden st example LargeGERbbraille Die Blindenshrift kann von Blinden nd example D Blindenrift kann von Blinden dur Abtaen mit den Fingern gelesen werden Im Blindenalphabet beeht jeder Bua be s Tlen der Grundform von Punk ten d s dr Rhen mit je zw Punk ten zusammengesetzt i Zahl und Folge der Punkte werden b den nzelnen Bu aben verndert Bild Gelesen wird d Braillerift von links na rets mit den Kuppen der Zgefinger Der linke Zgefinger erltert jewls das ffin den der nen Zle Gebte Blinde er ren d durnittlie Lesegewindigkt nes Vorlesenden D Blindenrift kann von Blinden dur Abtaen mit den Fingern gelesen werden Im Blindenalphabet beeht jeder Bua be s Tlen der Grundform von Punk ten d s dr Rhen mit je zw Punk ten zusammengesetzt i Zahl und Folge der Punkte werden b den nzelnen Bu aben verndert Bild Gelesen wird d Braillerift von links na rets mit den Kuppen der Zgefinger Der linke Zgefinger erltert jewls das ffin den der nen Zle Gebte Blinde er ren d durnittlie Lesegewindigkt nes Vorlesenden Another example inputbenglishsty to switch back to English Braille tbraille or at the nd time bbraille after testing capitalsign Ray Bradbury Driving Blind blq Did you see thatbrq blq See whatbrq blq Why hell look therebrq But the big sixpassenger No Studebaker was already gone One of the man standing in front of Fremleys Hardware had stepped down off the curb to stare after the vehicle blq That guy was driving with a hood over his head Like a hangmans hood black over his head driving blindbrq blq I saw it I saw itbrq said a boy standing similarly riven nearby The boy was me Thomas Quincy Riley better known as Tom or Quint and mighty curious I ran blq Hey wait up Gosh Driving blindbrq Ray Bradbury Driving Blind Did you see that See what Why hell look there But the big sixpassenger Studebaker was already gone One of the man standing in front of Fremleys Hardware had stepped down off the curb to stare after the vehic le That guy was driving with a hood over his head Like a hangmans hood black over his head driving blind I saw it I saw it said a boy standing similarly ri ven nearby The boy was me Thomas Quincy Riley better known as Tom or Quint and mighty curious I ran Hey wait up Gosh Driving blind Ray Bradbury Driving Blind Did you see that See what Why hell look there But the big sixpassenger Studebaker was already gone One of the man standing in front of Fremleys Hardware had stepped down off the curb to stare after the vehic le That guy was driving with a hood over his head Like a driving blind hangmans hood black over his head I saw it I saw it said a boy standing similarly ri ven nearby The boy was me Thomas Quincy Riley better known as Tom or Quint and mighty curious I ran Hey wait up Gosh Driving blind The Braille Country Listings Languages listed are those predominant in Europ e and Overseas In two cases Dutch Spanish there is no standard national alphab et listet See the English one in these cases The Czech language usepackage braille b czech fontshap es CZbraille CZbbraille CZtbraille The Czech standard alphab et g j a b c d e f h i k l m g j a b c d e f h i k l m p q y n o r s t u v vv x z p q y n o r s t u v w x z The ligatures and sp ecial characters input output value input output value a A a c C c d D d e E e e E e ch L ch i I n N n o O o r R W r s S s t T t o u U u u U u y Y y z Z z The Czech standard punctuation Anomalous punctuation blq levyuv ozovky left quote brq pravyuvozovky right quote capitalsign Abc capital sign Note The Czechcharacter w is describ ed by double v vv CZbbraille vv The Danish language usepackage braille b danish fontshap es DANbraille DANbbraille DANtbraille The Danish standard alphab et g j a b c d e f h i k l m g j a b c d e f h i k l m p q y n o r s t u v w x z p q y n o r s t u v w x z The Danish sp ecial characters input output value input output value a A o O a A a The additional Faro ese characters input output value input output value a A a i I o O o u U u y Y y ei ei ey ey oy oy th g The Danish standard punctuation Anomalous punctuation blq left quote brq right quote abbreviation abbreviation sign dash dash threedots ellipse italics abc italics capitalsign Abc capital sign The Dutch language usepackage braille b dutch fontshap es EUbraille EUbbraille EUtbraille The ligatures and sp ecial characters input output value input output value e E e o O o u U u a A a e E e i I o O o u U u e E e u U u a A a e E e c C c i I The Dutch standard punctuation Anomalous punctuation blq left quote brq right quote obliquesign P oblique sign paragraphsign paragraph sign stress a accent stress sign changelanguage change of language italics abc italics capitalsign Abc capital seriescapital ABC series capital Note You can b e blind wordblind doubleblind stoneblind gravelblind a Persian blind a Venetian blind greenblind mo onblind snowblind a blindworm blindfolded lost in a blind alley or be made unblind The English language usepackage braille b english to switch back to English Braille fontshap es braille bbraille tbraille The English standard alphab et g j a b c d e f h i k l m g j a b