Hi Chuck,
On 23 Apr 2004 at 3:16, Chuck Pettke spoke, thus:
> I am new to the list and am considering purchasing a BrailleNote. I am
> thinking of buying the qwerty keyboard model and was wondering about the
> braille input mode mentioned in the manual. According to the manual
> braille input is active only when using KeyWord and creating or editing a
> braille file. Is this true?
Depends what you are expecting. This, PDI, wants changing to a more
conservative and sensible arrangement, particularly for the benefit of BT
owners. Braille input in computer braille and qwerty input are basically
interchangeable. So, in non-braille-document environments, as in KeyMail
or any KeyWord text document, you may use the home row entry method for
entry of single cells, using your chosen computer braille notation, as an
alternative to the usual keyboard. A side effect of this strangely
unabstracted design is that any function on the BT model that is used for
text input must necessarily be entered in computer braille, rather than
the user's chosen grade (in a certain incredible contradictory fashion)
because the on-the-fly grade 2 backtranslation internally done by KeySoft
is only useful to you when editing braille documents. When you edit
braille documents, BrailleNote is still storing only single ASCII
characters per cell, as in a .brf file, but the grade of braille chosen by
the user at any point is stored as formatting information in the KeyWord
braille document file and assists BrailleNote's on-the-fly backtranslator
in figuring out which way to backtranslate any given bit of braille for
speaking when read.
> Is it also then true that any other input such
> as in the planner or in the e-mail client is done in normal qwerty keying
> style?
As just explained, KeyMail's editor is simply KeyWord editing a text
document. So, you can use computer braille as the entry method if you
wish. You may not type in grade 1 or 2, though. If, when you were asking
for braille input, you meant regular English grade 1 or 2 braille then -
as of now - neither BT nor QT can help you.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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