No, you're not necessarily stuck.
Press the outer thumb keys simultaneously until "editing" appears
on the display. If you're starting from the default settings, 4
presses should do it. (THE display should cycle through
"automatic", "layout", "reading" and then "editing".
Once you're in editing mode, all embedded codes should show on
the display while reading the document. The first tab on a line
shows up as$t, that is, dots 1-2-4-6 then t with no intervening
space. Subsequent tabs on that line show up, progressively,
as$t2, $t3, etc., without the commas.
When you find a tab code, press the appropriate cursor routing
button to place the cursor on that character. You can then
delete that code as you would any other word: for example, with
backspace-dots 2-5. You can also route the cursor to the place
just to the right of the tab code then press Backspace.
You might then want to route the cursor to what you want to be
the first character on the line and use the "where is this"
command -- space with dots 1-5-6 -- to determine whether any
extra spaces have slipped in during the process.
In principle you should be able to do this much more simply, and
for a whole document at once, with the global find and replace
feature: backspace-F, then F for forward or B for back, then
respond to the "find" and "replace with?" prompts. However, on
my Apex, this feature works erratically or not at all, sometimes
reporting as "not found" strings which show up unambiguously on
the display when you go to the right place and look for them. If
you're working with an mPower, or if your Apex is one where this
feature actually works,
First: Go into editing mode as described above and look at a
sample occurrence of the tab character you'll want to remove.
Determine whether it immediately follows a hard line break or
whether there are intervening spaces; do the same for the
locations immediately to the left and to the right of the tab
code;
Second: From this exploration, determine the "target string, that
is, the sequence of characters, spaces or codes that you will
want to search for and change into something else;
Third: Determine what you will want to replace the target string
with;
Fourth: Initiate global find and replace as described above.
When prompted for "find?", enter the target string. For a hard
line break (shown on the display as dots 1-2-4-6 then a p, with
no intervening space), enter space with dots 2-6; for a space,
enter a space (but you may need a "binding" space, for which
enter space-with-b; I haven't tried this); for a tab, enter space
with t;
Fifth: Hit enter to indicate the end of the "find?" string, then
respond to the "replace with?" prompt.
You may also want to have a look in the Advanced Word Processing
chapter of the manual. In the Apex manual, for example, see
section 7.4.2.4 and look at the discussion of "Translation find
and replace".
It seems to me that the manual contains, somewhere, a list of the
formatting codes you can search for during find and replace; but
I'm not finding it right now.
Good luck.
Steve Speicher
421 S. 9th Street, Suite 205
Lincoln, NE 68508
Tel.: (402) 475-8355
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Clark" <[email protected]
To: "'Nicole B. Torcolini'"
<[email protected]>,<[email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:26:09 -0400
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Erasing Format with the BN
So, if the BN is not erasing tabs then I'm stuck?
Sharon
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicole B. Torcolini [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:22 PM
To: Sharon Clark; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Erasing Format with the BN
Yes and no. There is not a way to tell the bn to drop all
formatting, like
in word. However, you can save it as a BRF file and then resave
it as a
keyword Braille document. This can have minor draw backs,
though,
particularly if the file has grade change markers and language
change
markers in it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Clark" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:31 PM
Subject: [Braillenote] Erasing Format with the BN
Hello,
Is there a way to zap format with the BrailleNote? A student of
mine used
tabs to indent a paper, but cannot seem to remove them although
the BN beeps
like they have been deleted. Upon looking at the same wording,
the tab
indent is still there.
Sharon
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