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Biblos - The Accessible Word Processor

The Biblos blog, the accessible Word Processor for making braille, tactile graphics and much more

→ How to activate the reading of ancient Greek in Biblos
Giuseppe Di Grande 07/20/2021 18:00	Biblos along with Jaws and NVDA screen readers can be used to read aloud documents in ancient Greek. The pronunciation of ancient Greek is done by transliterating Greek characters into Latin characters on the fly. You don't have a correct pronunciation of ancient Greek, but the feature is equally… 165 more words

→ How to open Microsoft Word documents with Biblos
Giuseppe Di Grande 07/20/2021 08:00	In Biblos 5.42 I introduce the possibility to open and save natively DOCX files, usually managed with Microsoft Word. Before it was necessary to install a component produced by Microsoft called File Format Converters. From version 5.42 Biblos does not need other components. On the contrary, for those who need to open… 204 more words

→ Braille e Grafica Tattile: La Fondazione Lucia Guderzo organizza due corsi di Biblos
Giuseppe Di Grande 07/13/2021 08:00	La Fondazione Lucia Guderzo organizza due corsi di formazione via Zoom per la creazione di libri braille e di immagini tattili col software Biblos. Il corso di videoscrittura braille inizierà a fine luglio, mentre il corso di grafica tattile a fine agosto. Di seguito le informazioni sui due corsi. I… 314 more words

→ Biblos Interface Editor: New version of Biblos localization software
Giuseppe Di Grande 07/01/2021 08:00	Biblos Interface Editor is a Biblos support tool that serves to localize the user interface, online help, character labels used by speech synthesis, character transliteration for speech synthesis, status bars, toolbars, and bulleted and numbered lists. It is an indispensable software to synchronize the development work on Biblos with the… 1621 more words

→ View Plus EmBraille, manuale d'uso con Biblos
Giuseppe Di Grande 06/01/2021 08:00	1. Informazioni su ViewPlus EmBraille Dopo aver sconfezionato ViewPlus EmBraille, si trovano il corpo della stampante, i cavi di collegamento e un vassoio per la carta. Il vassoio per la carta è un elemento molto importante, quando si vuole utilizzare e inserire correttamente i fogli singoli nella stampante. Sul lato… 2765 more words

→ Bulleted and numbered lists
Giuseppe Di Grande 05/13/2021 08:00	Bulleted or numbered lists are useful when you have to make a list of names, terms with definitions or short sentences. Biblos in the Format menu has a complete section to manage lists. There are two ways to write a bulleted or numbered list: activate the list type and write… 360 more words

→ How to select text in a document
Giuseppe Di Grande 05/11/2021 08:00	Select that part of the text and copy-paste it to me. How many times have you heard yourself make this request? And how many times have you said to yourself: now how do I select the text? Selecting text is a simpler operation than you think, and now I… 809 more words

→ How to use indents in documents
Giuseppe Di Grande 05/04/2021 08:00	In word processing there are some mistakes that are unfortunately very common; one of them is to indent the text of documents using spaces or tabs. However, spaces and tabs are elements of word processing that serve another purpose. They might have made sense in the past, when a text… 733 more words

→ Biblos. Powerful Audio and Braille program
Natalia Fernández Jáuregui 04/30/2021 17:00	Hello! Today I want to talk about my experience with the Biblos program and how I have been using more and more features that I didn't know it had. What is Biblos? Biblos is a free program for Windows created by the Italian programmer Giuseppe Di grande. The origin… 666 more words

→ Anchors for touch, usability of braille documents
Giuseppe Di Grande 04/27/2021 09:00	Try opening a document or electronic book, removing all the carriage returns and all the formatting, and then start reading it. Sure, you can read it, but don't you feel that sense of annoyance at reading a text that lacks visual reference points that orient and facilitate reading? The… 626 more words