Directions for the Translator to Braille 
Guided Tour: Introduction
For certain purposes one may need to use special denotations described in tables in these directions. There is no point in trying to learn by heart those tables: just check them when in doubt!
Let us start by texts with no Mathematics
If the text only has letters, integer numbers and the usual punctuation marks you will (almost) only need to know that for pagination
- sequences of blank characters and a single newline are dealt with as a single space.
- one or more blank lines (that is, a sequence of two or more newlines) stand for the beginning of a new paragraph.
Try the following input asking for an image as output:
"In this way they talked to each other.
Meanwhile, a lying dog propped up its head
and
its
ears;
it was Argus, of valiant Ulysses, that he
himself trained,
and did not enjoy, before
departing to sacred Troy."
Odyssey, XVII, 290
Note that:
- the extra blanks and the newlines before its ears and himself have no impact on the result
- the blank lines force an end of line in Braille (change of paragraph), what has been used above to separate each verse.
As each Braille line can be no longer than 28 characters, the preceding text will have in the result the following lines:
"In this way they talked
to each other.
Meanwhile, a lying dog
propped up its head and its
ears
it was Argus, of valiant
Ulysses, that he himself
trained,
and did not enjoy, before
departing to sacred Troy."
Odyssey, XVII, 290
See the following table for some special denotations:
| final form | input | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| percent | \(40\%\) | 40\% |
|
| Euro symbol | \(120\)€ | 120\euro{} |
(1) (2) |
(1) You may omit the braces if immediately after the name there is not a space, a newline nor a letter. The use of braces before a letter indicates the end of the command name, while before spaces or a newline avoids that these characters are ignored as separators.
(2) If your keyboard lets you type the Euro symbol the translator may accept it. Please test!
