[bookport] Re: finding text with bookport needs fixing
- From: Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:39:15 -0500
Works fine the way it is. Just try it for a while, you'll get used to
it.
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:43:36 -0400, you 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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