You can toggle the Braille translator on and of during use of WintextCom from the Braille menu in Communications Mode. Select the

"G: Use Braille grade I/II translator"

option, or press its menu hotkey, "G". If this menu item is checked, Braille translation is enabled according to the settings specified by the relevant WintextCom setup directive, otherwise, it is not used. Selecting the option switches between checked and unchecked.

You can also toggle translation on and of while reading by pressing Control+Alt+B. This is especially useful if you prefer to read in contracted Braille but want to quickly check the computer Braille form.

Note that the translator can only be toggled on and off interactively. Its specific properties must be set/changed wit WintextCom setup directives. Use "bC" to specify the translator for communications, which includes telephone communications and reading SMS text messages. Use "bR" to specify the default Braille reader translation settings. The 'C' and 'R' in the above directives must be uppercase (case sensitive). These Braille configuration directives should be used in the settings file rather than on the command line; command line use may appear to work but result in malfunction at a later stage.

WintextCom offers 16 translation tables that may be specified by sequences of up to 4 plus and minus signs, or a colon in the first position to specify American rather than standard English Braille. The effect of each plus or minus sign depends on its position in the configuration string, as follows:

1st character --

'-': Turns the translator off.
'+': If no characters follow, enables grade 1 standard English Braille translation (just numbers and punctuation) with WintextCom Braille deviations, no capital representation. If there are following characters, enables standard English Braille translation as determined by the characters that follow.
':': If no characters follow, enable grade 1 American English Braille translation (just numbers and punctuation) with WintextCom Braille deviations and no capital representation. If there are following characters, enables American English Braille translation as determined by the characters that follow.

2nd character --

'-': Grade 1 translation (just numbers and punctuation) according to the preceding and following characters.
'+': Grade 2 translation according to the preceding and following characters. If no characters follow, standard or American English Braille with WintextCom Braille deviations and no capital representation, as determined by the first character.

3rd character --

'-': Capitalisation indicator, dot 6, is not used. The translation is determined by the preceding 2 characters, and WintextCom Braille is enabled if the 4th character is '+' or not specified.
'+': Capitalisation indicated by dot 6. Translation according to the preceding 2 characters, WintextCom Braille enabled if the 4th charact4r is '+' or not specified.

4th character --

'-': Strict translation according to preceding settings.
'+': Default. WintextCom Braille according to the preceding settings.

In addition, you can specify a custom translation by placing a colon (':') in the 3rd position and following this by a filename or list of comma-separated filenames in the "liblouisxml" subfolder of the WintextCom installation folder. You can also specify translation files in another location by including the full path. If there is more that one filename specified in a comma-separated list, subsequent files assume the path specified with the first filename. Translation must be enabled with '+'' in the first position, and '+' in the second enables contractions, '-' turns contracted Braille off.

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Braille Translator Settings