Dear Keao, All right! Now I know what your problem is. There is a solution to it.
The BrailleNote's .brf files don't show line endings and page endings when they are imported into DBT as "Formatted Braille" files. In order to read the files, your teacher must import the files as "Duxbury coded text." Now, all of the data will be there. Your paragraph endings will show, but your line endings won't appear. If your teacher has two hard returns in the documents, then they will show as paragraphs, but if there is only one hard return, it will appear as a space. There are other ways to work around the problem. 1. You can emboss the document directly from your BN. 2. You could export your KeyWord braille document into WordPerfect 5.1. Your teacher can then import the WP file into DBT and then translate it into braille. Before translating the document, all the asterisks will have to be removed. For some reason, Keysoft adds asterisks at the beginnings of lines and they appear in DBT. 3. You could export your braille document as a Word file. DBT doesn't support the Word documents produced by the BN because they are really rich text format documents. Your teacher would need to open the document in Word, save it as a Word document, then open it in DBT and translate it into braille. 4. You could export your documents as ASCII text files, but you would have the same problem you have with .brf files. To get around this, your teacher would have to open the .txt file in Word, save it as a Word file then use DBT to translate it into braille. I hope you forward my message to your teacher. If he or she has any questions, he/she may contact me directly for more information. I have suggested for a long time the BN should have better support for DBT and it should produce true Word documents and not rich text documents. It would also be helpful if HumanWare would improve the WP 5.1 documents created by Keysoft, but since WP 5.1 is a very old program and not popular anymore, they probably won't do it. I hope HumanWare will implement these suggestions I made for the .brf and Word files. Until then, people must use the work-arounds I mentioned. By the way, I have heard the competition's notetakers produce .brf files which behave the same way as the .brf files produced by the BN. Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keao Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:31 PM Subject: Fw: [Braillenote] Characters Dropping Off Was Saving a document : Hears what she means by the characters dropping off : : . : Message is below. : > The original document is a worksheet created in Duxbury and saved for you : > to : > read as a .brf file. The embosser settings are as indicated. : > You upload from a flash card to the Braille Note, fill in your answers, : > and : > save your work as a .brf file and hand it in on a flash card. : > I am importing your .brf file in to Duxbury and reading it as a braille : > file. : > When I import, I get a message saying "page width exceeded." I can open : > the : > file in Duxbury, but long lines created on the BN are truncated. : > For example, : > See your document on the BN for question 1 : > My answer reads as follows: : > ",coral reefs >e important 2c x's ! Anima" The next thing I see is : > question : > 2. : > : > I don't remember what your embosser settings are or how to find that out. : > That would also be something to inquire about. : : : ___ : 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 1.1463 (20060330) 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
