Hi Paul,
I don't know what keyboard you're looking at but the button to the right
of the space bar is the "repeat" key andnd the one to the left of the No. 1
is the escape. Maybe I'm not understanding what you're talking about.
Wilma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Henrichsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] The single quote versus the apostrophe
> Hi, Roselle. If I press that key to the left of number one, it says grave
> accent. A shift, as you stated is a tilde. I'd have to ask my wife, a
> writer, where the grave accent is used, but it is an accent mark, I
believe.
> I tried opening a document in the bn and typing this quote followed by
> Hello. and another quote or pressing that key. It didn't show anything on
> the braille display. If I typed it by itself, it showed what looked like a
> dropped h with a dot on either side, but once I entered another word, it
> disappeared.
> I know that when I scan a document and if they are quoting something that
> someone else said, not someone speaking in the book, they do use the
> apostrophe.
> So, if that quote key to the right of the spacebar is a grave accent, then
> that makes sense. Pressing a shift of that key does indeed give one the
> tilde. So, it appears that that particular key is the same as the one to
> the left of the number one on a standard keyboard.
> I suppose it should say grave accent since that is what is said on a
> standard keyboard and quote is sort of misleading.
> Paul Henrichsen
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