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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 hide or show a menu
Giuseppe Di Grande 11/11/2013 00:00	Each main document window of Biblos has a menu bar. This bar contains submenus and main commands for document and software management. Each element of the menu can be hidden or, if hidden, shown, so you can create a menu with the commands of your interest. To hide or show… 110 more words

→ How to assign a hotkey to a menu command
Giuseppe Di Grande 11/09/2013 00:00	Each main document window of Biblos has a menu bar. This bar contains all the main commands for document and software management. Each command in the bar can be assigned a hotkey. To assign or modify a hotkey do the following: Enter Tools/Hot Keys menu... A window appears with… 134 more words

→ How to Install an Index V2 Braille Embosser
Giuseppe Di Grande 11/07/2013 00:00	Here I explain the procedure to install an Index version 2 embosser and configure it in Biblos. These operations, if you are not an expert, should be done by a person or a technician you trust. Index version 2 braille embossers differ from Index version 4 embossers in their front panel. If you… 528 more words

→ How to Install an Index V3 Braille Embosser
Giuseppe Di Grande 11/06/2013 00:00	Here I explain the procedure to install and configure an Index version 3 embosser in Biblos. These operations, if you are not an expert, should be done by a person or a technician you trust. Index version 3 braille embossers differ from Index version 4 embossers in the front panel. If you touch… 602 more words

→ How to enlarge or reduce the font size
Giuseppe Di Grande 11/04/2013 00:00	Biblos makes it very easy to enlarge or reduce the displayed characters. The zoom functionality of the characters can be found in the menu View/Zoom . In the zoom adjustment window you can choose the zoom percentage with which the characters are displayed. The 100% value equals the normal size… 69 more words

→ How to print a Greek character in tactile graphics
Giuseppe Di Grande 11/02/2013 00:00	Thanks to the tactile graphics environment, Biblos also allows you to print Greek characters in tactile. Printing in tactile, using a Braille printer, helps blind people to discover the real shapes of the printed characters. The prerequisite for starting a tactile print is to have configured the graphic environment in… 323 more words

→ How to emboss in Braille documents in ancient Greek
Giuseppe Di Grande 11/01/2013 00:00	Biblos also allows you to print in Braille documents written in ancient Greek. In order to have correct Braille printing, it is essential that the texts use Unicode characters. Unicode character encoding is the most widely used today, unlike the ANSI encoding used in the past. To print a text… 186 more words

→ How to read ancient Greek texts with the braille display
Giuseppe Di Grande 10/31/2013 00:00	Biblos together with Jaws or NVDA screen readers allows you to read texts in ancient Greek, also through the braille display. To activate the ancient Greek reading in Jaws you need: Having installed Jaws and Biblos, preferably the latest versions; After starting Biblos, use the installation of the scripts present… 130 more words

→ How to write ancient Greek texts
Giuseppe Di Grande 10/31/2013 00:00	Biblos allows you to easily write ancient Greek texts. For this purpose, in the menu Tools/Keyboards/ there is the ancient Greek keyboard. By activating this keyboard map you can write in Greek characters, even using the many diacritics of this language. Biblos' "Ancient Greek" keyboard map solves the problem… 907 more words

→ Pedro Zurita and the braille production feature of Biblos
Pedro Zurita 03/25/2013 00:00	Even though I knew before late 2007 that Biblos existed there as a mainstream word processor which contemplated very well the special requirements of blind people I started using it actively when I learnt that its creator Giuseppe di Grande had added features to easily produce braille material on paper. I… 324 more words