[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating with a Braillenote PK
- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:38:01 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks Cindy. I suspect the problem I was seeing was being caused by an
"optional hyphen". I nuked all those in Word, so I may try again
validating with the BN, and see if it works better now.
Tracy
> 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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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:47 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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