[bksvol-discuss] Re: degree sign shortcut?

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:25:55 -0800 (PST)

 On the Word keyboard the degree shortcut is option shift 8 °
Cindy

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--- On Fri, 11/13/09, EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: degree sign shortcut?
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 11:37 AM
> 
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> Hi Jamie,
>  
> I don't know whether
> the actual degrees sign is 
> translated into braille correctly. But I think you are
> doing the right thing by 
> putting it in by hand. From my experience, it's not
> safe to assume that the 
> braille translator will translate those higher Ascii
> characters. Granted, it's 
> been upggraded not too long ago, but, I still think
> it's safer to do what 
> you are doing.
>  
> Evan
>  
> 
>   ----- Original Message
> ----- 
>   From: 
>   Jamie Yates, 
>   CPhT 
>   To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>   
>   Sent: Friday,
> November 13, 2009 12:55 
>   PM
>   Subject:
> [bksvol-discuss] Re: degree sign 
>   shortcut?
>   
> 
>   Does the degree sign translate in the braille
> conversion?
>    
>   If I have to hand type parts of cookbooks I just
> type degrees instead of 
>   inserting a sign.
>   
> -- 
> Jamie in Michigan
> Currently Reading: Love Mercy by Earlene 
>   Fowler
> See everything I've read this year at: www.michrxtech.com/books.html
>  
> 


      
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