[bksvol-discuss] Re: Braille display question

  • From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:45:05 -0800 (PST)

Are you saying when a person reads with a Braille Display there is now way to 
see a blank line?
 Valerie


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----- Original Message ----
> From: Susan Lumpkin <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sat, February 11, 2012 2:57:02 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Braille display question
> 
> Unfortunatley, for some unknown reason, it doesn't work that way on the 
> braille  
>display, Valerie!
> 
> 
> Susan
> 
> 
> -----Original  Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]  On Behalf Of Valerie Maples
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 2:38 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  [bksvol-discuss] Re: Braille display question
> 
> Hey, Sue S;
> 
> This  would be a kludge, but if the person who scans for you protects their 
>hard page  breaks with a blank line before and after (I do that before sending 
>out my  scans), then you would be able to know it is a hard page break instead 
>of a soft  one if you have all punctuation turned on.  At least I think this 
>would  work.  I am not blind, so maybe others can chime in...
>   Valerie
> 
> 
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> 
> -----  Original Message ----
> > From: Sue Stevens <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  Sent: Sat, February 11, 2012 1:55:22 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re:  Braille display question
> > 
> > (smile)  Thanks for your  encouragement, Susan.  I do enjoy proofing,  
> >but need to know  when I have a soft page break or hard page break. In 
> >earlier   versions, nothing was displayed if there was a soft page 
> >break, but I  sawthe  words page break if there was a hard page break.
> > 
> >  Sue  S.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- From: Susan  Lumpkin
> > Sent: Saturday,  February 11, 2012 1:29 PM
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  Subject:  [bksvol-discuss] Re: Braille display question
> > 
> >  Well, Sue, we think it's  important and don't quite understand why 
> >JAWS no longer will enable you to do  it! Please don't abandon  proofing 
>though!
> > 
> > Susan
> > 
> > 
> >  -----Original  Message-----
> > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]   On Behalf Of Sue Stevens
> > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:23  PM
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  Subject:  [bksvol-discuss] Re: Braille display question
> > 
> >  Thanks, Debby.  I  junked by Word 2002 because it wouldn't work on 
> >this computer.  Larry  Lumpkin is working on this, contacting  Freedom 
> >Scientific, so maybe they will  work something out.   If they do come up 
> >with a solution, Larry will let me  know what to  do.  It is really kind 
> >of him to try to get this solved.
> > 
> > Sue S.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> >  From: Debby  Franson
> > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 11:16  AM
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  Subject:  [bksvol-discuss] Re: Braille display question
> > 
> >  Hi Sue!
> > 
> > Thanks for  posting.  How thoughtless on  Freedom Scientific's part.  I 
> >don't see  their logic in  removing such an important feature.  I hope 
> >you have an earlier  version of Word to go back to or can upgrade JAWS 
> >to maybe have that  feature back.
> > 
> > Debby
> > 
> > At 04:53 AM 2/11/2012, Sue  Stevens  wrote
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > In reference  to my question the other day  about how to get Jaws to 
> > >  display the words “page break†on my Braille  display, I found 
> >  > out from Freedom Scientific tech support that Jaws 12  will not 
> > > display those words in Braille in Word 2010.  I thank  all  of you 
> > > who were concerned about this,and wanted to post  this so everyone  
> > > would know that, unlike in earlier versions  of Word and Jaws, this  
> > > feature has  been
> >removed.
> > > 
> > > Sue S.
> >
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