The PAC Mate can't do footnotes, comments, endnotes, text boxes, anything like that. There was sort of a workaround that I used to use when I had a PAC Mate, that would allow me to make slight modifications to existing tables, but believe me, it's nothing to trade your notetaker over (i.e. with this particular workaround I couldn't create new tables, or even add rows or columns, or delete rows or columns, from existing tables).
I actually believe the Apex has the best multilingual support out of all the notetakers because it supports marking up portions of a document as being in different languages, spellchecking, and grade 1 and grade 2 Braille for some languages. When I used a PAC Mate, there was no spellchecking or markup capabilities whatsoever, and it only supported computer Braille for everything other than English. In terms of *reading* Word documents, the Apex now does a better job because it shows tables, headings, etc. in speech and Braille. I agree that editing still needs some work. The advantage on the PAC Mate is that you can edit a document and preserve all that complex formatting, but you can't actually see or edit the complex formatting. In terms of synchronization, which I believe you were having trouble with, the PAC Mate wins hands down, because everything - Emails, contacts, calendars, notes, files - can be synced using Windows Mobile Device Center or Active Sync. It's got all the power of the hundreds of Microsoft developers behind its synchronization routine. It used to really bug me not to have thumb keys when I used a PAC Mate, because the BrailleNote really won me over in terms of thumb keys being the best and fastest way to read Braille. On the PAC Mate you've got two rows of cursor routing buttons, and on the top row they've deligated the last several buttons on each end as makeshift "advance bars". It's kind of an odd approach. And of course, I'm not quoting anybody other than myself, but Microsoft stopped developing Windows Mobile years ago, so it's unlikely that the PAC Mate, in its current form, will be updated much, if at all, at least in my opinion. Just some thoughts. Cheers, Grant ___ 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
