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Biblos - The Accessible Word Processor

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

→ 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

→ Braille: Letters that rotate and change in space, the symmetries of the system
Giuseppe Di Grande 04/22/2021 08:00	Braille uses a series of raised or lowered dots to represent letters, numbers, and symbols. The dots have a specific arrangement within a surface called a cell. The dots in classical braille are arranged within a grid of two by three dots. The sets of dots that make up some… 801 more words

Una cella braille

→ Tactile graphics and the functional reorganization of images
Giuseppe Di Grande 03/25/2021 16:00	The blind child acts and interacts in a small portion of space around him that he learns to know from a tactile point of view. When creating tactile graphs, starting from visual images or new projects, it is necessary to take into account that, while the sighted child has a… 967 more words

→ Biblos: From Typing to Computing, from Keyboarding to Word processing
Giuseppe Di Grande 03/23/2021 08:00	Word processing was one of the first applications to be implemented on personal computers. Today the use of a computer for writing text is commonplace, even at home. Thanks to a personal computer, a keyboard and software, today all people read or write electronic documents. Texts are typed, stored, edited… 1318 more words

→ Greco antico con Biblos: Mini-manuale per leggere, scrivere e stampare in greco antico
a cura di Leopoldo Saggin 01/07/2021 18:30	Il manuale di Biblos e Greco antico è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.2 di gennaio 2021. Nell'archivio Zip sono presenti due cartelle contenenti la versione testuale e la versione con immagini del manuale. La versione con immagini contiene immagini di supporto alla comprensione del testo. Il manuale è dedicato alle funzionalità… 51 more words

→ Buon 2021: Sarà un anno pieno di Braille, di Grafica Tattile e di Biblos
Giuseppe Di Grande 01/01/2021 08:00	Buon anno 2021 a tutte le persone che utilizzano Biblos. Iniziamo insieme un nuovo anno, dopo esserci lasciati alle spalle la barriera psicologica di un 2020 pesante e difficile da digerire. Oggi è il giorno dei buoni propositi, nel nostro caso i buoni propositi per una buona e felice continuazione ed evoluzione… 577 more words