There are block commands, they just use a different set of
keystrokes.
Grant
----- Original Message -----
From: kelsey trevett <[email protected]
To: Jessica Brown <[email protected]>,
[email protected],[email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:03:39 +0100
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Hidden Command
it does. It's just if you've moved from one device to the BN,
the keystrokes are similar to other device. For example, there
are no block commands.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jessica Brown <[email protected]
To: Marvin <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:50:15 -0700
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Hidden Command
What is compatibility mode? I have turned it on before and it did
not seem to effect the commands on the bn.
----- Original Message -----
From: Marvin <[email protected]
To: BN List <[email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:49:15 -0500
Subject: [Braillenote] Hidden Command
I'm not sure why HW got lazy on this one, but space with z
(z-chord) is a Blazie Notetaker command for exitting stuff, like
the file command menu. That command should be switchable along
with the b-chord command for backspace through compatibility
mode.
Speaking of modes, I have another idea for a new keysoft
release. Has anyone on here used a Blazie notetaker in the past,
as I have? If so, you might remember macros. I absolutely LOVED
those things! You'd hit n-chord, (we'd have to change this
to something like space with dots 2 4 6 because space with n is
find next occurrence of string) a braille symbol you wanted the
macro sequence to be under, then you'd be able to record up to
sixty-three consecutive keypresses (two of which could
possibly be the command sequence for calling another macro), then
the recording would end. Of course, you could always end the
recording earlier by hitting n-chord again.
Let's say you wanted macro e to do a pronunciation dictionary
switch so you could change from Keynote Gold over to Eloquence
speech, and have that other dictionary load so kng's
pronunciations wouldn't mess up eloquence speech. That macro
might go
as follows:
Space with dots 2 4 6. Bn says: "Enter a character", so you
decide e for "eloquence switch". After pressing e, the bn might
say: recording.
You could then go through the command sequences for doing this:
Go to main menu (all dots-chord)
f for file manager, d for directory, f for the flash disk,
space for the folders list, d for the dictionaries folder, enter
to select, p for pronunciation dictionary
Then backspace with m for move file, f for the flash disk as
destination drive, the word none for the folder, enter.
Now you'd be back in the file list for the dictionaries folder,
so e for the file "eloquence pronunciation dictionary", backspace
with r for rename, then dot 5-chord twice to get to the word
"pronunciation", then backspace with dot 2 for delete
previous word, then enter to finish renameing.
We're still only at 21 keypresses for this macro, so we're
still good! So, go to main menu again, backspace with enter with
r for review voice, space four times to the synth choice, then e
for eloquence, and finally e-chord to exit.
We could now hit space with dots 2 4 6 again to end recording
keys, and the bn would say: "macro end". This new macro only
took 29 steps. Now macro e would be ready to use. All we'd have
to do whenever we wanted to switch to the eloquence
synthesizer from now on would be to hit something like enter with
j (remember space with j is already jump to place marker) for
execute macro, at which point the bn might prompt "macro to
run?". So we'd hit e, and the bn would do all that stuff for
us in something like less than two or three seconds, and
eloquence would be loaded when all was done.
Incidentally, a couple things could be added to this. First,
you might remember that k-chord and v-chord were the commands for
silence and speak macros respectively. This would turn speech
off or on respectively while a macro was running.
Silencing the voice would speed things up since the unit wouldn't
be speaking the prompts and stuff while things were happening.
So if we implemented those commands, we'd have to use enter
instead of the spacebar, since enter with k and v are still
available to us. Also, a Nemeth 8-chord was the command to have
a macro speak a message (or just braille it, if macro execution
was silenced before the message sequence). This command
possibility is still available to us, so we wouldn't have to use
enter for this one.
So, using our previous example, enter with k before the start
of the recording, and enter with v after exitting review voice
would bring the recording to 31 characters. We still have enough
room to have the macro speak a message, so we could still
add this:
Space with dots 2 3 6 (speak and/or display a message), then
the string of text (without quotes) "eloquence loaded" before
hitting space with dots 2 4 6 to end recording. This new and
improved macro is still only 48 keypresses. I don't remember,
but I think you had to hit space with e (Blazie enter) to end a
message, so that would bring the macro to 49 characters.
So here's what would happen after hitting enter with j, then e.
You'd see the braille display do some very quick refreshes, then
a slight freeze after the macro hits space with e to exit the
review voice menu while eloquence loads, then you'd
probably see
eloquence loaded
on your display, as well as hear it spoken. This is why I think
macros would be a great idea to bring back! They would make
procedures like this one much easier! Sorry for the long message,
but I felt nostalgic about macros, and figured I'd
tantalize you with this new possibility.
Oh, and before I forget, if we created this macro, we'd need to
create a reverse macro (maybe k for keynote gold) which would
silence speech, go to the dictionaries folder, rename
"pronunciation dictionary" to "eloquence pronunciation
dictionary",
find "pronunciation dictionary" in the none folder, move it back
to dictionaries, exit file manager, review voice, switch back to
keynote gold, exit, turn speech back on, then display the message
"keynote gold loaded". My brain hurts from counting
the steps in that other macro, so I'm not going to count this
other hypothetical recording sequence. I think it would fit
within sixty-three characters if things were done efficiently,
though. If not, we could easily not put in the message
sequence.
Anyway, have a good day.
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