[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating with a Braillenote PK
- From: "groups Warford" <groups_warford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:05:11 -0400
Hi Tracy,
Unfortunately I'm not sure how much help I'll be, (I have a BrailleNote BT
and haven't ever met the PK,) but maybe this will get a discussion started.
And, I do use my BN for validating and love it because it has shown me some
things I've missed in Word.
The $fm you're seeing is a format marker. I don't think I've ever seen them
within words, but they usually surround words and usually signal a format
change coming up such as a $I (indent) or a start or end italics. Unless
the PK is a lot different, I validate on my compact flash card all the time.
Right now I don't think it's the culprit but you can just move the file to
the flash disk and see if it's the same. I usually validate in "automatic"
mode" which shows me blank lines (I have that set to $p) and form feeds (a
soft one would be a $f). When I really want to see every mark up in the
document I go into "edit" mode. I don't usually run spellchecker until
after I'm done, but that's a personal preference. Can you transfer the
original RTF back to the BN, renaming the part before the .RTF extension so
it won't get confused with the previous validations, and try looking at
castle and whatever before you run spellcheck? If it's fine there, run the
spellchecker and see if you get the same results. Oh, when you open the
document on the BN it will usually ask me If I want to review options. I
would make sure "translate into Braille" is set to "no". You should also
get a message when the document is opened saying "This is a text document,
computer Braille is required". This should let you read in your preferred
grade setting which in my case is 2, but if you need to change something you
will need to type it in computer Braille.
I don't have a document about validating but someone else might. If some of
these things don't work, I would call support. Also when you're saving the
doc, always anser the question about changing it to a Keyword document with
"no".
Okay, I'm finished rambling. Good luck; I know you will really enjoy
validating with the BN once this is all straightened out. Please let me
know how things go.
Best Regards,
Cindy 4
"It's more important for me to start to do the right thing than it is to
wait until I think I can do it just right."
--Author Unknown
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Validating with a Braillenote PK
Help! I really need some advice about how to validate using my
Braillenote PK.
I have a file to validate, and this is what happened:
I opened the file, which lives on my compactflash card. I did not copy it
to the flash disk. I started running Spellcheck. It kept finding
part-words, like "ob vious", but when I opened the same doc in Word on my
PC, those words were not split. The Braillenote also showed me a $FM in
the middle of the word "ob $fm vious". Is that a soft page break? I went
into the BN menus and chose "style same as source" but that did not fix
the problem. And, much worse, after I saved the doc, I opened it up again
on my PC, and words were split that were not split in the original doc.
For example, the one I'd tried to edit with the BN had "cas tle", while
the original had "castle". And I hadn't even touched that word with the
BN Spellcheck.
Any ideas why these things are happening? Is there any doc on validating
with a BN that might cover known problems?
I would really like to be able to use it for validating. I could work a
lot more places than I can now. I know many do it, but I seem to be
having problems.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
Tracy
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