Thanks everyone for all your help. Looks like I did not pick a very good book for my first choice. I thought something with short stories would be lite reading and give me something to read before bed. I wanted to break the ice slowly and start reading again. I sure did not expect it to be this hard. Thanks again. Terry Powers
-----Original Message----- From: Sarah Cranston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:24 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading modes with mPower Well, I checked out this book on my own BrailleNote. There is no mention at all of the word "chapter". It's a book of short stories. It's divided into sections which are numbered, but these aren't chapters, they're just categories for the stories. The way I would go about reading this book is to go to the top of the file, look for the word "contents", and look through the table of contents to find what story I wanted to read. Then I would look for part or all of the story's title. I did discover that, once into a story, you can use the paragraph command to move around between paragraphs, but this sometimes only moves between lines in the introductory material. I just checked again, and part of the problem is that this particular book is not divided into chapters. The word "chapter" only appears in a few stories. Also, the stories aren't numbered. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:56 PM To: 'Braillenote List' Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading modes with mPower Sarai; When I found chapter 1, it just gave 1 and a title. While reading I found larger numbers like in the teans and twenties, so these have to be pages. They seam to be putting a few stories and quotes under the same chapter number. I have not reached chapter 2 yet. It took me three evenings to get this far. Terry -----Original Message----- From: Sarai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 1:48 PM To: 'Braillenote List' Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading modes with mPower Those numbers w/o symbols might be the chapters -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:42 PM To: 'Braillenote List' Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading modes with mPower Hi Sarah; After trying find chapter 1 then I just tried 1 by itself and got no where. Sarai said there might not be any markers. When reading, I came across numbers with out any kind of symbols in frunt. Can you bring it up on your machine and see if you run into the same problem. If we don't solve this, how am I going to get around the book or any other. Thanks. Terry -----Original Message----- From: Sarah Cranston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:39 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading modes with mPower I'm not exactly sure what the problem is. You won't be able to search for the word "chapter" since it's not in the book. I would have either searched for the number 1, skipped past the table of contents, then searched for 1 again, or searched for the word "One", with a capital O. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:00 AM To: 'Braillenote List' Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading modes with mPower The book said paragraph mode at the beginning. Any ideas. I have not tried it on the actual story. I was trying to advance by a large amount of space to find the beginning of the book. Find chapter 1 did not work. When I finally got there, the word chapter was not there, just the number. I tried page numbers and ended up in the contence. Help. This is crazy. Terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: Sarai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:43 AM To: 'Braillenote List' Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading modes with mPower Your paragraph commands will only work if the reading mode is set to paragraph. The reading commands change function when the mode is set to lines or columns. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 6:23 AM To: 'Braillenote List' Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading modes with mPower Teri; Did you see my problem with reading a book in paragraph format? If it is a listing, will that prevent the paragraph command not to work. I can not even get the find or surch for page, line or column to work. I had a terible time making it to the first chapter in chicken Soup for the soul book 2. They did not use the word chapter. I tried strait numbers and ended up in the contence. I have written about this before and got no responce. Please help me out. space with f is find space with 1,2,6 is for page, line, column Terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: pann1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:16 PM To: Steve Speicher Cc: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] reading modes with mPower 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 > > >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > >__________ NOD32 1.1204 (20050829) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
