Hello to all, I am indeed pleased that there are those who wish
to replicate the fault with the "find-and-replace" facility as
offered by the Apex. I have been asked to explain how to
demonstrate this fault; I thought I had done so in some detail.
So, please forgive me for reprinting a a section of my earlier
email. Yes, when I talk of Braille files I do mean kwb files,
since these are the normal Braille files used on both the Mpower
and the Apex.
(repeat) I am a Braillist, I work in Braille on a Braille
keyboard and I keep my work as Braille files. One of the ways I
am able to read books is to scan them and read them as grade 2
Braille documents. One of the common errors one finds with
scanning is that quite often both open and close quotation signs
appear throughout a book as apostrophes. Now, on the Mpower it
was a simple matter taking less than a minute, to change these
erroneous signs to the correct Braille ones; even on a large
book. Thus let's suppose one has a document in which the name
Peter appears many times, if you should wish to change this to
Richard, one can now achieve this on the Apex; but one cannot
correct faulty punctuation signs. Just to check things out, I
translated a lengthy Braille document into an ascii text file;
the "find and replace" facility now worked as it should both for
words and punctuation, but let me stress, it doesn't work for a
Braille document. It's surely a little ironic when one takes
into account that this is basically a unit designed for blind
people. (end of repeat)
Finally, I am concerned, not with the changing of a single
punctuation mark, but the correction of a large number within a
document.
Don Cooper.
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