Here are two suggestions for keeping together material which you
do not want split across braille page breaks:
1. Binding space. See section 7.10 in the built-in user's
manual. Hitting enter with B creates a binding space which will
prevent the words on either side from appearing on different
lines. I've not tried using binding spaces on a multi-word
string of text; and if you're trying to bind several lines of
text together but don't know in advance where the line will
break, this technique could require quite a few extra keystrokes
even if it works;
2. Space with the wh sign (dots 1, 5, 6) tells you the page and
line number where your cursor currently is. Assuming that your
page length and line length parameters are set the way you want
them, this command will tell you whether a block of text will fit
onto a particular page or will be split between pages. Use the
command at the beginning and again at the end of the text in
question and check the page and line numbers it shows you. If
you learn from this that the last line of a block which you wish
to be unbroken will appear on line 1 of the next page, you can:
(1) edit the block to shorten it enough to bring the last line
back onto the page where the rest of the block is; or (2) change
something else on the first of the pages where the block appears
to make enough room on that page to allow the whole block to fit
there; or (3) hit enter enough times to fill up the page where
the block used to begin, moving the whole block to the next page
in the process; or (4) accomplish the same result as in (3) but
by simply entering space with p (the hard page break command)
right before the beginning of the block you want to keep
together. This choice forces the block to a new page. With
either choice (3) or (4), you'll wind up with some extra blank
space at the end of the page from which you moved the block --
for example, space at the end of page 1 if the block has been
moved to page 2.
I think the feature you're asking for is often called
widow/orphan protection: a line being considered a "widow" if all
the material which should be with it has moved on to the next
page, or called an orphan when it's the last line of a block all
the rest of which appears on the previous page. This feature has
been in word processors since at least the mid to late '70's; but
if it's in Keysoft, I don't know where. I found no reference to
either widow or orphan in the user's manual index.
Steve Speicher
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From: "slery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:50:10 -0400
Subject: [Braillenote] splitting lines between pages
Using QT KS 7.5 build 28
Is there a way when embossing to force either the BN or the
embosser (Romeo
25) to keep lines together? I am referring to the fact that a
print line
could equal two or more lines in braille. Sometimes these lines
are at the
end of the page and the first braille line will be on one page
and then the
rest of the line will be on the next page. I would like to make
these lines
stay together so that if this happens, it would force that line
to begin on
the next page instead placing part of it on more than one page.
Cindy
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