I appreciate your attempts, but it was far more simple than that.
I down loaded a sports schedule from NLS Web Braille. Each game was
not on a separate line. The games kind of ran together. However,
they all ended with PM. So, I wanted to find and replace PM with PM
"new line." The manual had the wrong command for that.
Jean gave me the correct command, which is space with dots 2 6. As I
quoted in my message, the manual said, space with dots 1 2 6. So, in
a matter of a few seconds, the schedule now reads the way I wanted it to.
Again, thanks for the efforts.
Richard
on Thursday 11/3/2005 10:47 AM James Aldrich said
Hello!
I'm a bit puzzled as to what you are trying to do but I'll try to
approach this from a number of angles.
If you are translating a document from text to braille and you wish
to remove the unwanted format commands which are introduced when
working with a Microsoft Word Document, I found it is easier to save
that document as a .txt file. This immediately gets rid of the
format commands you don't .
want. Translate your newly saved text document into braille and you
won't need to put up with those unwanted format commands. Keep the
original Microsoft Word Document available just in case there may be
a mistranslation or something else messes up. You will always have
the original document to fall back on.
Should you use the go to command, dots 1 2 6 with spacebar, you can
simply type that in. The BN will say go to? You then would type
something like p3 for page three, l6 for line six and C1 for column
one, press enter. Every character and space on a line is considered
a column. You could have sixty spaces as a margin in a print
document or 40 spaces in a braille document. Each space and
character on that line is considered a column. Let's assume the
first three words on a line have six letters each. Obviously, the
first word begins on column one. The word would end on column
six. The space would be on column seven, and the next six letter
word would begin on column 8. If I figured it right, the third word
should be on column fifteen. If you were searching for the third
word initially, you would write the go to command, dots 1 2 6, P3 l6
c15. You can use the number sign when entering with a BT keyboard
and writing in grade two. I think you could write with the number
sign when using that command in a text document. This depends on
your preferred reading grade I think. You don't initiate the find
command when using the go to command. Just type space with dots 1 2
6 and type in where you wish to be reading and editing. I checked
this with the dots 1 5 6 with spacebar command and that command
confirmed that I did indeed take myself to the place I wanted to go
in the document.
You can execute the find command and type in the punctuation you are
looking for. The find command will take you to the first occurrance
of that punctuation. If I'm looking for a line return, I simply
type it and the find command will take me to the first occurrance of
it. If you are trying to get to the first column on a line, I think
you would have more success with the go to command.
HTH
Jim Aldrich
At 08:30 AM 11/03/2005 , you wrote:
I am attempting to clean up a document by searching and replacing a
word with that word followed by a new line indicator. According to the manual:
3.12.2 Searching for Format Indicators.
You can use the following command sequences to search for these
indicators, and also to insert Format indicators into a document
when entered at the "Replace with?" prompt:
New Line: SPACE with dots 126.
When I press space with dots 1 2 6, it just beeps at me. I have
tried this on two Braille Note Classics, one running Keysoft 5 and
the other Keysoft 6.11 and on a PK running 6.01. They all behave the same way.
If I use the new page indicator, space with p, it works
fine. However, I do not want to make each line a new page.
Does anyone know the real command for find and replace a new line
indicator? Or, is this simply not actually available?
Thanks,
Richard
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