[bookport] Re: The Braille keyboard
- From: "Dale Lieser" <drlieser@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:37:05 -0500
Larry:
Yes, your description is much easier for me to understand than the one in
the manual. I was going to post about the very same puzzler, but just hadn't
gotten to it yet today.
Thank you for clarifying.
Dale
----- Original Message -----
From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:28 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: The Braille keyboard
> Actually, this is easier to think of if you don't try to associate the =
> traditinoal key with the braille key. Let's try this:
>
> Once your device is in braille input mode, you now have three rows of =
> keys. Each row has six columns. =20
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> The top row is the 6 dot layout that we are all familiar with.
>
> The two middle keys in the bottom row act as the Space key. Immediately =
> left and right of space are Backspace and Delete. All the way to the left
> =
> on the bottom row is braille dot 7 and all the way on the right is braille
> =
> dot 8.
>
> The middle column contains, from left to right, esc, left, up, down, =
> right, and Enter.
>
> Does that help looking at it that way?
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>>>> annakb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Friday, September 17, 2004 8:16:29 AM >>>
> From the manual:
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> To use the braille keyboard, turn Book Port 90 degrees from its normal=20
> operating position, so the compact flash card faces toward your body.
>
> The braille input keyboard looks like this:
> 3
> 2
> 1
> 4
> 5
> 6
> Esc
> Left
> Up
> Down
> Right
> Enter
> 7
> BackSpace
> Space
> Space
> Delete
> 8
>
>
> So I've turned BP 90 degrees. I start, then with what used to be the =
> 'D'=20
> key (on the d-e-f row) and it becomes dot 3, with f becoming dot 1?
>
> 3=3Dd
> 2=3De
> 1=3Df
> 4=3Da
> 5=3Db
> 6=3Dc
>
> I know this is a wonderful and clever idea, but I befuddle=20
> easily. following this list, the dot 8 key is 3?
> Space is either 1 or 6?
>
> Or am I reversing something? sorry to be so upside-down.
>
> ann
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