[bookport] Re: finding text with bookport needs fixing
- From: Sarah Cranston <skhye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:25:30 -0500
Another suggestion for capitalizing letters would be the "chord u" some Braille
notetakers use. This is done by pressing space with u, dots 1-3-6. It could
be pressed twice to enable caps lock, and pressed once again to go back to
lower case. This is only a suggestion, I personally don't have any difficulty
pressing dot 7 with a letter to capitalize it.
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Bruce Toews <dogriver@xxxxxxxx
>To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:42:35 -0500 (CDT)
>Subject: [bookport] Re: finding text with bookport needs fixing
>Here's how I'd do it. You pick some easy-to-press combination, hitting it
>once means that the next character is shifted, and hitting it twice in
>succession, or perhaps holding it down for one beep, initiates a shift
>lock. After the shifted characters have been entered, a third press of the
>combination unlocks the shifted state. Just one suggestion.
>Bruce
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>On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Debbie Gillespie wrote:
>> 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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>>> Bruce Toews
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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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