Hi Terry, I like the slant on this bt keyboard. I also have been brailleing all my life, and I find it comfortable.
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: 'Braillenote List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:53:58 -0500 >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] The single quote versus the apostrophe >Hi everyone >I sure am glad I did not get the quarty BN now. How do you remember all the >differences between a computer and the qt key board. Memorizing one >keyboard at a time is enough. >Why didn't they make it the same as the computer. It is hard enough to get >used to the slant of the BT key board. Do you have any idea why it was made >like that. I have been brailleing >since second grade and now this! That is a long time, 19 years in the >government. >Bye for now. >Good Luck all of you in your new classes. >Terry Powers >-----Original Message----- >From: wilma johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:28 PM >To: Braillenote List >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] The single quote versus the apostrophe >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 >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <home.pacbell.net/paulh52 >> ___ >> To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >> http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
