Cross-platform braille rpinting?

[Chevelle Strobel]

 	I believe ASCII 12 is the page feed character.  It doesn't matter 
if you are sending it from Windows or Linux.  I would think you might want to 
use the NFBtrans Braille translator and let it format the text for you. 
You can tell it not to use Grade 2 and just print Computer Braille or 
whatever Braille code you want , ifI remember correctly.
The code is mostly written in C and can be compiled on Linux quite easily.
A lot of Braille embossers allow you to set the interpretation of the 
linefeed to either CR or CR/LF, but this isn't desirable, because it is 
easier to control it with software.
 	 On Mon, 
16 Feb 2009, Mario Lang wrote:

> Hi.
>
> As soneone who last time used a real-world braille printer
> approximately ten years ago under DOS, I find myself in need to
> write code to print braille on different platforms (Linux, Windows, possibly MacOSX).
>
> Is anyone here familiar with the details of how the text stream sent
> to the printer needs to be formatted?  How, for instance, are
> pagebreaks indicated?  In UNIX, I am used to ASCII character 12,
> but given the CRLF/LF Windows/UNIX linefeed differences, I am guessing
> it isn't that simple.  What do commonly used braille rpinters expect?
>
> Additionally, what braille mapping do they expect?  Since I am
> printing dot patterns, it is very important that what I send
> is what ends up on paper in dots.  I guess I am asking too
> much from nowadays braille printers to understand unicode braille?
> If so, what mappings are typically configurable on a braille printer,
> and what is the default, if any?
>
> Thanks for every help you can give me
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