Scientific Notebook
(SNB)
Duxbury Brl Translator +(DBT)
Some Nemeth
Lee Speer
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Some Nemeth
SNB: Linear is it’s
specialty
Spatial is not –
whether a vertical
problem or a graph
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Scientific Notebook
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Trial Copies
• SNB has a 30 day trial period
• When I taught SNB in my Access
Technology class, they had an unlimited
number of copies for a 10 day period.
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Say it isn’t so!
1. There is no Ctrl + s - save
command in SNB
2. Ctrl + z is very “iffy”
3. Does not work with JAWS
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Why use SNB?
1. You can create a regular print file.
2. You can create a large print file.
3. You can create a braille file?.
ALL AT THE SAME TIME
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Print Document
Font = Tag
• Go to TAG
• Go to APPEARANCE
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Tag = Font 2
In
Tag Properties
Click on:
• Font
• Modify
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Toolbars
SNB opens normally with one tool bar, and I
would suggest starting with the following
toolbars:
Standard
Math Templates
Symbols Cache
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Where do I add Toolbars?
• Go to the VIEW menu
• Go to TOOLBARS
• Check or uncheck the toolbars you want
• PS: At the bottom of this, I personally
check
LARGE BUTTONS
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Customize Toolbar
• You can only customize the SYMBOLS
CACHE toolbar.
• Right mouse click on the toolbar and
select “customize.”
• Your choices are on the left side - and
what is on the toolbar is on the right side.
• The add/remove button is in the center.
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Add to theToolbar
I would recommend you add the following basic operands to your
symbols cache toolbar:
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Dot operator (multiplication bullet)
Multiplication sign (multiplication x)
Division sign
degree
Cent sign
You will decide what to add later as the need arises
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Keyboard Characters
The following is a list of characters that
you can use, in SNB, from the
keyboard
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Plus: +
Minus: Dollar: $
Greater than: >
Less than: <
Parenthesis: ( and )
Brackets: [ and ]
SNB
SNB
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• Decimal point: .
• Percent sign: %
• Equals: =
• Comma: ,
• Divided into: o
• Absolute value: | and
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All other
operands
have to come
from the
toolbar
buttons.
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Math and Text mode
• There are two modes in SNB, math and
text.
• You can use the M or T toolbar to change
or CTRL + t or CTRL + m.
• You can designate the mode prior to
typing or highlight and change.
• Math/text is not as important as it used to
be, but it is still a consideration.
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End of the sentence
If a word problem ends in math mode, ie.
What percent is ¾?
The punctuation at the end of the sentence,
has to be in Text mode in order for that
punctuation to translate properly.
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Text within an equation
Text within an equation
has to be in TEXT mode
(Color black) or it will not
translate into contracted
brl.
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Math Templates Toolbar
Once you click or start (ie. fraction) a
mode, you have to exit that (ie. fraction)
mode
You exit the (ie. fraction) mode, by:
1. Pressing the spacebar
2. Using the right arrow key
3. Left mouse click
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Fraction 1
Horizontal Fractions
Choose fraction button
and put in your digits
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Fraction 2
½
In SNB, there is no method, that I have
found to create this fraction correctly.
?1_/2#
I use the fraction button and add the dots
before the fraction line in the DBT brl file
4,5,6 (keyboard underscore: _ )
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What difference does it make?
What difference does it make if I do not use
the correct fraction division line?
• Properly prepare our students
• Standardized testing
• SAT/ACT Testing
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Next
• Create your document and save it.
• The extender will be .tex
• You have to open the file in Duxbury,
you cannot copy and paste.
• The importer mode will show .tex or
LaTeX.
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Translate and then check
• Translate the file and then check it to
be sure it is correct.
• The yellow translation line at the
bottom of Duxbury will not help since
DBT is a literary brl translation
program.
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Duxbury (DBT)
• You can edit a brl file in DBT just as you
can a print file (even find/replace)
• You can find/replace codes much the
same as text
If a SNB imported file has extra lines or
is indented.
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DBT
• In a print file do 4 dashes ---- and it will
translate into ____ (4 dots 3,6’s) for a fill-in
the blank for brl.
• A print file from a teacher will have fill-inthe-blanks like ___________ this which
translates into dots 4,6; dots 4,6; dots 4,6;
etc. You can make one set of ---- dashes
& copy, then select the print file dashes
(by clicking on them) and pasting.
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DBT 6-key entry
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Go to File, New and choose Braille
You are now in 6-key entry mode
FDS (1,2,3) JKL (4,5,6)
You can edit and word process just
as if you were in print mode
• This is grt for spacial equations
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Spatial Equations
In SNB, they do not write correctly as each number
will have a number sign with it, which you do not
use with spatial equations, they do not “line up”
correctly and the separator line (Dots 2,5) would
be a number 3 with a # prior to each cell.
I recommend producing in DBT as a brl doc. I can
demonstrate that after we finish the .ppt.
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Print for Braille in DBT
In DBT, in 6-key entry, you can use the
following to enter the braille.
With a number sign, nemeth numbers are
the numbers on the keyboard
1 is a nemeth 1
2 is a nemeth 2…
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Print for Braille 2 in DBT
This section does not take into account UEB
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0 = up-next to a word is "by" or was by itself
2 = be or bb
3 = con
4 = “dis, dd or a period
5 = en or enough
6 = to
7 = by itself is "were" or literary ( )
8 = his
9 = in
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Print for Braille 3 in DBT
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AND = &
FOR = =
OF = (
THE = !
WITH = )
(shift 7)
(equals sign)
(shift 9)
(shift 1)
(shift 0)
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Print for Braille 4 in DBT
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AR = >
No. sign,BLE = #
CH = * (shift 8)
COM = - (dash)
CON - _ (underscore)
ED = $ (shift 4)
ER = ]
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GH = <
ING = +
OU = \
OW = [
SH = % (shift 5)
ST = /
TH = ?
WH = :
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Print for Braille 5 in DBT
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Apostrophe: is the apostrophe
double quotes: 8
Comma: 1
Period: 4
Underscore: dash
Semicolon: 2
Bullet: _4 _4
Open/close parenthesis: 7
Colon: 3
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Let somebody else do it?
We have two high schools where the math
teacher(s) use SNB to create all of their
classwork materials.
Once they have created the materials, they
email the assignment, you check it and then
emboss it.
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Questions?
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