I am in total agreement with you. I honestly believe that beta testing should have found these problems, I imagine that the reason I don't experience them is that I use a qwerty keyboard and write all of my documents in plain text. If I wish to use a document as the basis for another document, I move it over to my PC for fine editing.
-----Original Message----- From: Alex Parks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:32 PM To: Richard Ring; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Braillenote] This is rediculous!! Yes, I have a pc but I have used the bn for all my work ever since I got it in 2002 and have never had these problems. I think a big part of it is in the language--if you paste a url or part of a web page into a file it is not tagged as any language and that is where all these blank language tags come from. This is a major issue that should be resolved as soon as possible. As Richard said: I would rather have no new features but have data integrity than new features I am never sure I can trust. Have a great day, Alex > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Richard Ring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Alex Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[email protected] >Date sent: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:16:40 -0600 >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] This is rediculous!! >You have a right to be angry. However, do you have access to a >computer? Honestly, I never do important documents on the Braillenote. >I certainly use it to take notes and to write drafts, but I simply don't >find it reliable enough to do the kind of hard work you just put in. >I am not minimizing what happened to you, believe me, but it might be >time to look into a PC with Microsoft Word. I'm truly sorry all of this >has happened to you! >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Parks >Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:16 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Braillenote] This is rediculous!! >Okay, I am really not happy. No, scratch that; I am furious. I >completed revisions to an essay in a word file on my bn. I had copied >and pasted a lot of stuff, like quotes and urls, and I found that, even >though everything was in English, I got these language tags with no >letter like s or e. This leads me to my first point: this causes the >spell checker to say "spelling dictionary is not installed". Why is >this happening? Next, I exited the file a few days ago and, as I just >found out, it had erased all data after one of these blank language >tags! I had a backup of the file, thankfully, and went into that to >modify a few small things before emailing it to my professor. >When I exited, I got that "exception: converter..." You know the >rest, I am sure. I had thought ahead, however, and copied the >entire file to the clipboard just in case something like that >happened... When I pasted the clipboard into a new file, I got a >blank language tag followed by an English language tag. No text, >no nothing. Just those tags. >This makes me extremely angry. I would like to thank Humanware >for, yet again, making a version of ks that has these bugs with >msw files and for erasing half (all") of my essay. >Alex >___ >Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. >If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a >copy to the list as well. >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 ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. 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
