[bksvol-discuss] Re: inquiry to braille users
- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:44:27 -0400
Hi Reggie. I think Pocket Word works well, but as others have said it does
have a size limit. It has worked well for the books I've done so far though.
It might not handle a very long book, say 300 pages or more. It does let you
edit text and works mostly as Word does on your PC. I save my file after
proofreading every 10 pages or so because I'm a little worried about
forgetting to save my work or having a crash. I do that on my PC too though.
I'd call that a personal quirk rather than a policy everyone should adopt.
It certainly won't hurt anyone to do it though. (grin) I wonder if your
FSEdit problems stem from it converting the file to grade II Braille? I'm
going to try proofreading a book with FSEdit just to see what happens to it.
I'm going to keep my original file on my PC in case this doesn't work. I'll
try it with a short book so I won't waste tons of time if it doesn't work
out.
Oh, one more thing, before I put a book on my Pac Mate, I use Mayrie's
technique of removing extra blank lines from the file. Since Pocket Word
counts lines of text in its size limit, this means I can work on longer
books. I used to give Mayrie a bit of a hard time about her idea of removing
blank lines since Bookshare does that for us when they process a book to
make the daisy or brf file. Now I'm realizing just what a smart idea she has
shared. So Mayrie, I'm publicly eating my words. (smile)
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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Monica: I gave up on PacMate Pocket Word. I use FSEdit, but as I said in
my previous post I have had to completely re-read at least 6 books because
Pac Mate has destroyed them. Is there a secret to using Pocket Word? Would
it be safer? I am so discouraged with Pac Mate that I am just chomping at
the bit to get a small netbook so I can have computer and Pac Mate braille
display. I do not have Kurzweil or Open Book so will pocket Word let me fix
scanos? Sorry for all the questions.
Frustrated and discouraged proofer who likes braille and wishes she could
afford Kurzweil to help
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