I guess having epelepsi is an advantage here, because I type and braille a bit slower and never have experienced this happening. Almost always, we can find something positive to everything. Now I have found a positive side to my epelepsi. Those that are blind can read braille in the dark.
Terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: Amanda Chokov [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:22 PM To: alice dampman Humel Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Questions about wordprocessing on the braille note... Hi Alice, There are quite a few key combinations that will throw you somewhere else in a document if you're typing fast enough. Space with a will take you up to the previous line of text in the document. Space with l will take you all the way to the top. That's another popular one with me... I'll be typing the word look, for example, and the l won't come out because I hit the space with it. Instead, at the very top of the document, I'll find, ook. Another one is space with dots 2-3, or the contraction for be. That will take you up to the next section of a document. For example, if you have sections separated by a couple of lines, like chapters. A couple of more annoying ones to watch out for... Space with s will save your document. Several times, I've accidentally hit space with s while typing, and instead of simply saving my document, I'll be renaming it whatever else I'm typing. For example, I could be writing, speak to me, father! The bn will see me as hitting space with s, and then naming my file, eak to me father! if I don't catch it in time. space with e will take you right out of your document. You could go on typing without even realizing you're not in the document anymore until you look at the braille display. But worst of all, I think, is space with q. This will prompt keyword to ask you if you want to lose all changes and abandon keyword. If you hit y, you'll lose everything from the last time you saved your document. I've lost a lot of stuff that way. I've also found myself in the block commands menu by hitting space with b by mistake, and have done all sorts of things... but I got rid of that problem by turning compatibility mode on in the utilities menu. This will let you backspace with this key combination, and make the block commands menu available with space plus dots 2-3-6. I hope this helps. Kind regards, Amanda On 11/22/09, alice dampman Humel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Alternatively, maybe you can convince your professors that having > a double space between paragraphs is not really all that bad? > Is the space A typed together what causes one to be thrown > somewhere else in the document? Are there other key combinations that > cause that as well? I find myself confronted with the same problem, > and perhaps if I know which particular key combos cause me to be > thrown somewhere else in the document, I can be extra careful about those > particular sequences? > Thanks, and good luck with the profs! > aAlice > [email protected] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Cummings" <[email protected]> > To: "Amanda Chokov" <[email protected]>; > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:34 PM > Subject: re: [Braillenote] Questions about wordprocessing on the > braille note... > > >> Hi >> >> 1. Your not gonna like this, but if at all possible, i'd use a >> computer to create a document that needs to be formatted correctly as >> the translator on the bn is not that good at keeping formatting >> intact. >> >> 2. I've had that problem; it's very annoying. Unfortunately, there >> is no real way round this from what I can tell. All i'd suggest is >> to be careful when typing and check your position every now and then. >> Also, if you have a braille display, check the position of the cursor >> on the braille display from time to time. >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>From: Amanda Chokov <[email protected] >>>To: braillenote <[email protected] Date sent: Sat, 21 >>>Nov 2009 17:07:22 -0500 >>>Subject: [Braillenote] Questions about wordprocessing on the >> braille note... >> >>>-- >>>Amanda Christine Chokov >>>Hello all, >> >>> Some questions my professors brought up recently got me >> thinking. >>>When I export a document from braille to Microsoft Word, I think >> the >>>formatting is just fine. However, some of them have a problem >> with the >>>fact that there is a two-line space between my paragraphs. I >> don't >>>write the file that way in braille; it comes out that way once >> it's >>>been translated. Is there any way to prevent this from >> happening? >>> Secondly, I am an extremely fast typer. Sometimes, while >> I'm >>>typing, my spaces will get mixed with in. For example, I'll end >> up >>>hitting space with a, and moving up a line as I continue typing. >> Is >>>there any way at all I can keep whatever I'm typing appended to >> the >>>document, so that I won't risk jumbling everything up by >> accident? >> >>> Cheers, >>> Amanda >> >>>___ >>>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 >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.425 / Virus Database: 270.14.76/2517 - Release Date: > 11/21/09 07:47:00 > > -- Amanda Christine Chokov ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. 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