Hi Sarah; Do you put your dazy books in a separate folder from your NLS books. If not, how can you tell, by the name that they are dazy and what their format is? Terry Powers
-----Original Message----- From: Sarah Cranston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:12 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Confusion about 7.2 Hi KC, You may not know this, but Daisy text is really wonderful in Braille. You can completely ignore the whole audio aspect of Daisy and still get lots of functionality out of Daisy text, such as in books downloaded from BookShare. BookShare doesn't mark up their Daisy books to the extent they could, but you can download newspapers from BookShare in Daisy and read them in the Book Reader, (with Keysoft 7.2), and the whole newspaper will be in Braille! You can skip from section to section and article to article, just as sighted people do when they read the paper. I'm really looking forward to this, reading the paper has always been something I wanted to do but was daunted by the lack of access and the cumbersome methods of obtaining electronic papers. So, there's some food for thought regarding Daisy and how it can be useful to a person who reads exclusively with Braille. As far as file management goes, there's another good reason to upgrade if you can. In KS7.2, you will be able to arrange your files, not only in alphabetical order as you have always done in Keysoft, but also in order of size, date modified, and file type. You will be able to go into the file manager, go into a list of files, and press enter on a file and the BN will open it for you in the correct application. For instance, a text or Braille file will be opened in either the word processor or the Book Reader, I can't remember which at the moment. One other nice new thing in KS7.2 is the ability to mark files in a list, then delete, rename, copy or move them, somewhat like using wild cards, only with a lot more flexibility. This is done in the same manner as marking Emails. In case anyone is wondering, the reason I went into such detail regarding KS7.2 is that KC and other deaf BN users did not have access to Jonathan Mosen's wonderful audio preview of the new features. Oh, KC, there is also a major upgrade to the calculator consisting of statistical functions, but I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to such things, so that's all I'll say on that subject. I feel you could probably get a lot of use and enjoyment out of KS7.2 if you can possibly work it into your budget. If you don't have an SMA now, you can buy one for $195 for the download or $235 on a card, and that will cover KS7.2 and the next major upgrade. I hope you find all this helpful. Sarah -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of kathleen spear Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:19 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Confusion about 7.2 Hi JOnathan, For those of us who are not interested in Daisy functinality, is there anything in KS 7.2to justify an immediate upgrade? (I've used my SMA in the past year and really need to justify the expense of another upgrade now.) Kc ___ 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
