Hi, Tom,
There are two formats for opening .brf files--paragraph and line. The
paragraph format will convert single hard returns into single spaces. The
line format will preserve single hard returns. When you open a .brf file,
you are asked to "review the options." Answer y. The first option is "Use
line or paragraph format when opening the document." The default is
paragraph, but you want to change it to line. The next option is "Use line
or paragraph format when saving the document." Choose line here, too.
Press control s (or space s, I'm not sure), to save the settings as the
defaults. If your client likes to use cards to transfer files from the BN
to the PC and removes and reinserts the cards, this will have to be done
every time .brf documents are opened. The defaults aren't preserved when
the cards are removed.
But there's another way to get around this. Go to the file manager, ASCII
file translation menu and set the format to line. Now, don't open the .brf
file but import the file into KeyWord. Now, every time your client opens
the file, she'll be able to see the lines as single hard returns.
Here's another trick: Go to the back-translation options and set the
paragraph in the source document to new line. Now, go to the braille
display options and set the "function of previous and next thumb keys" to
"paragraph or section." Now, she can use the thumb keys to scroll from one
paragraph to the next. I always prefer scrolling by paragraph. This will
also change the way her files are translated into text. I prefer using the
thumb keys to scroll through documents than the keyboard. If she prefers,
she can set the thumb keys to scroll by line or sentence or to scroll up and
down.
Good luck!
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:53 AM
Subject: [Braillenote] Urgent: problem reading Old Files from Braille Lite
Hi,
I need some ideas, please, and quickly.
A client of mine has a number of files on her Braille Lite which she
transferred to a floppy disk, then copied to a CF card for reading in her
new MPower BT32 running KS 7.2 build 43. The files are braille files with
no extensions.
When we attempted to read them using Keyword, the files wouldn't open, so
I gave them .brf extensions. Now here's where it gets tricky.
Many of the files have things like client records, bank transactions, et
cetera, and each are supposed to be on separate lines. When she does a
dot-4 chord to move from line to line, she finds that the line items are
merging into each other, and there are $l format markers scattered
throughout the files. She wants me to figure out how to set it up so that
each line item appears on a separate line.
While viewing a file and doing an o-chord, then b, we see that "show new
lines in reading mode" is set to indent two spaces.
Any ideas on how to solve this? I need an answer very quickly.
Thanks,
Tom
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