Users will need a MIDI circuit board and software to translate MIDI files into music.

Older software, written for the nine-pin printers that were standard until recently, doesn't always translate correctly for 24-pin printers.

It is a high-level computer language and can be used on any computer whose supporting software can translate it into the appropriate low-level instructions.

A cynic might note that disabling rival software directly translates into profits for AOL.

Koenig's software translated the calculation of mathematical equations into codes which represented musical notation.

The software will translate.

Some software internally interprets ANSI escape sequences in text being printing and translates them to these calls.

Additional software can translate the written notes into text.

Newer software (including new versions of Internet Explorer) now translate the erroneous bytes individually to characters in Windows-1252.

Then, if Dr. Bruni chooses, handwriting-recognition software takes those electronic records and translates them - more or less - into text that can be handled by a word-processing program.