Hi John, I'm not quite sure if I understand your question about headings correctly, but if you're in a Braille document, and you want your Braille headings to come out in your print document looking like headings, this is controlled with the Presentation Style option in the Format Menu. Put the cursor where you want the heading to begin. Press SPACE with dots 2-3-4-6 from your Braille document, and scroll through the menu until you reach the Presentation Styles option; press ENTER here. The BN will most likely say "Presentation Styles? paragraphs". There are six different styles, and you can scroll through them using SPACE and BACKSPACE until you get to the one that says "Heading", and you press ENTER when you're at "Heading". Then, put your cursor at the end of your heading, go back into Style of Presentation, and change the style back by scrolling until you get to it and pressing ENTER (if it was Paragraphs before, for example, you would scroll to Paragraphs and press ENTER). After you've done this, you can print your Braille document, and the heading should come out. If you've set Heading style, and there are two blank lines at a certain point, the BN will automatically go back to Paragraph style. In print, the heading will come out with 2 blank lines before and after it, and the actual text of the heading should be centered and bold. If you want to change the appearance of the heading and the number of lines before and after it, you can go to the File Manager Menu by pressing F from the Main Menu. After you get to the File Manager menu, press T for "Translate a File", and after you get to the Translation Menu, select the "Back Translation Options (braille to text)" option. As you scroll down the menu, the settings for "number of blank lines before and after a heading" and "heading format" will be the 7th and 8th items respectively. With the numbers, you put in the number before the heading, followed by a comma to signify "and", and then the number of blank lines after the heading. For the heading format, Appendix B of the User Guide explains how to enter them. The choices for format indicators are "center a line", "right justify the line", "insert tabs", "fonts", "underline", "space", and "force new line or page". What fonts you can put in and which letters signify which fonts depend on the printer you have, and the information that tells you this is in a folder called Printers on the KeySoft System Disk drive; once you select the folder, select the file that discusses the printer you use (for example, I use a Hewlett Packard printer, so I select the file called "HP Printer Info"). The info you need is under the section of the document called "Type Styles". Section 13.18 discusses the Back Translation Options, and 7.4.1.2 covers the Heading style. The indicator for heading is a dollar sign followed by the letter h, and the paragraph indicator is dollar sign followed by sp; although in 7.4.1.2 it says the section that describes Back Translation Options is 13.15.9, the actual section is 13.18. You said in this email that you use a BT 32, which is what I use, so the sections should be pretty much the same (I use the KeySoft 5.0 User Guide). Regarding your other question, I haven't found another way either to deal with multiple punctuation translation except to write it in Computer Braille. Sorry this is a bit long, but I hope this helps, and I hope I've understood your questions correctly. Maria
>----- Original Message ----- >From: john goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:02:04 +0000 >Subject: [Braillenote] An Old Question And A New >Hail, all ... >To start with my new question, I'd very much appreciate guidance, please, on >putting print page headings into a document originally written as braille. >My old question, though, is still that of braille punctuation being >mis-translated into print. I can understand the confusion that arises around >oblique strokes and s t signs, but not when it comes to a question mark, a >closing bracket, or a closing quotation mark at the end of a close-up >punctuation string of four or five cells (incorporating an ellipsis), and with >a space after, being translated as "his", double quote, "were", and "was". >I'm finding this a nuisance and three quarters. As I said previously, yes, I >have found a way round it by going into and then immediately out of computer >braille for the offending cells, but find this so "unnatural" that I keep >forgetting to do it when I'm actually concentrating on the substance of what >I'm writing. True, I did find capitalizing my braille "unnatural" to start >with - and may get used to this. But I shouldn't be having to, should I? >As this is the third time I've written in on the punctuation subject, I'd be >most grateful for help from someone at Pulsedata itself, please. >To save any confusion among fellow list members, though, I should explain that >I'm using a BrailleNote BT 32. >'Bye for now, >John Goddard. >___ >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
