Hi,
Here are some ideas for reading textbooks:
1. Determine how your textbook is formatted. Is it a .brf file written in
textbook format? If it is, then it will appear just like the paper books.
There will be two page numbers. The print page number is at the top of the
paper page and the braille page number is at the bottom of the paper page.
If a print page takes more than one braille page, then you will see print
page numbers like this: 1 a1 b1 c1. If a new print page begins in the middle
of the braille page, you'll see a line of dashes and the new print page
number will be at the right end of the line. But since your braille display
will have less than 40 cells on a braille line, the page number will appear
somewhere else. You can find any page number using the find command control
f or space f.
2. I don't know how BookShare formats their textbooks they didn't exist when
I was in school, (grin).
3. If you want to, you can create your own markers. When I do this, I call
mine m1 m2 m3 etc. I can create thousands of marks. If you create too many
marks, it might get confusing.
4. Set your braille display to read by the most efficient unit for you. I
like to scroll from one paragraph to another. You can scroll by line,
sentence or paragraph.
5. In a .brf textbook, there are 40 cells per braille paper line and 25
lines per braille paper page. If your layout and page settings are set to
these parameters, then you can use the page up and page down commands to go
from one braille page to another.
I hope these suggestions help.
Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
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