American Hebrew Braille Translator (uncontracted)   

FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY

The Hebrew/American Uncontracted tables support print-to-braille translation of Hebrew-language and English-language literary text, following the conventions used by the Jewish Braille Institute of America (JBI) in New York, New York. the print-to-braille translation supports the production of uncontracted Hebrew braille and contracted or uncontracted English braille following American standards.

These tables support some secondary languages as well.

The American Computer Braille Code (CBC) is also supported.

REFERENCES, HISTORY AND CREDITS

These tables were developed in April 2001 by Duxbury Systems, Inc., based on information provided by the Jewish Braille Institute of America (JBI), in New York, New York.

These tables replace the older Hebrew translation tables developed for DBT as used with the Hebrew version of  WordPerfect 5.1.

(Documentation reviewed: May 2006.)

Duxbury DBT: Braille Translation in Many Languages.