But what about the Braille Sense Plus? I believe that now it too
has multi language support. Yes?
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From: Grant Hardy <[email protected]
To: Matthew J <[email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:04:16 -0700
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] opinions on trading my apex
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
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