[bookport] Re: finding text with bookport needs fixing

  • From: Bruce Toews <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:10:55 -0500 (CDT)

My Braille Litge M20, which has eight-dot braille, allows for the u-cord convention.

Bruce

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On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Richard Turner wrote:

On most note takers, if you are using six dot braille, you have to do a chord-u (that is, space bar plus the letter u) then type the letter. If you want all capitals, you hit chord-u twice, then type the word.
In note takers using 8 dot braille, it is the same as the book port, dot 7 along with the letter.


Richard

on Monday 8/15/2005 02:31 PM Debbie Gillespie said
I am in total agreement with Bruce on this one, but believe this is the only way to shift characters. AS I do not own a note taker, how do you shift characters on most of these?


----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:49 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: finding text with bookport needs fixing


> I was doing some braille entry today and quite liked the keyboard as is, > thank you very much. Your "obviously" suggestion flies in the face of > those of us used to the Perkins-style keyboard. I think the layout is > very logical. My only suggestion would be a better method of entering > shifted characters.
> > Bruce
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> > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Kitty Litter wrote:
> > > While reading the manual I came across the section regarding finding > > text. The manual refers to this mysterious braille keyboard. Not that I > > want one, but is this product available? The manual also refers to > > entering the text to be found in braille. After fiddling around with > > this I figured out how this is done. The only thing I can say about it > > is that the person who developed this part of the software had no clue > > about braille and little consideration for the end user. It's really > > too bad because this would be quite useful. For those who care you > > press 7+8+9 which places you in braille edit mode. From there you press > > keys corresponding to the dots of the braille character you want to > > enter in the find buffer. Dots 1-3 are star A and D and dots 4-6 are > > keys 7 4 and 1. Obviously dots 4-6 should be mapped to keys pound C and > > F so it wouldn't interfere with the zero key. Although not perfec, at > > least this would look more like a real braille cell and allow people to > > use it.
> > >








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