Dear Steve and List,
I will try again to explain how to get paragraphs to work right.
Suppose you have a braille document opened. Each paragraph should
begin
with a hard return followed by two spaces. You want to translate the
document into text and you want the paragraphs in the print document
to
begin with two hard returns.
Go to the back translation options menu. You will be asked,
"paragraphs
in source document." You would press control enter to indicate the
hard
return and press the space bar twice to indicate the two spaces. I
don't
know what the commands are for a BT keyboard. Now, cycle through the
back
translations list until you come to "paragraph." Press control enter
twice
to indicate you want two hard returns in your print paragraphs. I
don't
know the BT commands. Exit and press y to save the changes.
Suppose you have a text document you plan to translate into braille.
Go to the forward translation options list. You will be asked
"paragraph
in source file" If your text document paragraphs begin with two hard
returns, then press control space bar or the equivalent BT command
until
you get to "blank line." Now, cycle through the forward translations
list
until you get to "Paragraph." Press control enter spacebar spacebar
or
the BT equivalent command to indicate you want the paragraphs in the
braille document to be a hard return followed by two spaces. Exit and
save the changes.
If you want these settings to be the defaults for all your documents,
be
sure to use the forward translation options and back translation
options
in the file manager menu.
Once you have set up these options, you will be able to open and read
a
braille or text document using the paragraph commands.
Now, if you want the thumb keys to jump from one paragraph to another,
you
would go to the braille display options and look for thumb keys.
There
are three choices: up and down, sentence or line and paragraph or
section.
Choose paragraph or section. Now your thumb keys will scroll from
paragraph to paragraph.
I hope this helps.
Terri, Amateur Radio call sign, KF6CA. Army MARS call sign, AAT9PX
California
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Steve Speicher wrote:
Good morning, Jean:
Here are two approaches to the movement-by-paragraph issue.
1. As Dean mentioned, a blank line will cause the space-with-2,3 and
space-with-5,6 commands to work as you expect them two. But to get a
blank line, you have to hit the enter key twice. One difficulty with
this approach is that the blank line created in this way is honored
when embossing and so wastes precious space on the embossed page. To
avoid that problem, when you have finished editing the document and
are ready to emboss, you could use the global find and replace to, so
to speak, prepare the document for embossing by converting all
occurrences of the double return to one return followed by two blank
spaces. In the embossed document, the single return followed by the
two blank spaces will give you two-space indents at the beginning of
each paragraph but will not skip a line between paragraphs. If you
want to do some more editing, simply reverse the global find and
replace to convert each occurrence of a return followed by two spaces
to two returns. In the find and replace operation, to produce the
return character, press space with dots 2 and 6. You wouldn't need
to convert back, since the two-space indents created with the first
global replace will now make the move-by-paragraph commands work as
you expect. But you might want to convert back if you want that
blank line between paragraphs for the printing (instead of embossing)
of the document, or if you need to do more editing and just want to
save a keystroke at each paragraph break.
2. If you don't mind an extra keystroke at each paragraph break, you
can press enter then add two spaces at the beginning of the new line.
This requires three keystrokes (return and two spaces) instead of two
(two returns); but it makes the move-by-paragraph commands work as
you expect; and it avoids the need for switching back and forth
between two versions of the document, one formatted for reading and
one for embossing. Of course, if you want to print the document
rather than emboss it, you might want the blank line between
paragraphs.
There's probably a third, better way to address the question. I hope
one of our fine listers will post it, as I, too, would like to know
what it is and how to format a document in such a way that it works
equally well for printing or embossing..
At 07:24 PM 9/5/2005, you wrote:
Okay. As far as I can figure this out so far, here's what I think
is happening with moving by paragraph with space dots 2-3 or 5-6.
. It works fine in any text file. It works fine in any text file
converted to braille. It works fine in the Demonstration file
included in the General folder by Humanware. I gather this is a
braille document created just to play with. Notably, it has one
carriage return to separate paragraphs.
But I can't move by paragraph in any braille file I create. I've
experimented with as many combinations of reading mode and thumb key
combos, but no go. It wants two carriage returns in a braille file
in order to recognize it as a paragraph. All of the layout options
are unchanged.
Anyone have any ideas? Could this be a bug or something in 6.2? I
would assume one shold be able to move by paragraph in a braille doc
you create.
Jean
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