Hi Terry,
I think there are a number of ways to deal with having to center extra long
lines. Luckily with the Bn's superior editing features, one can really
doctor things up nicely! I think you are limited to your imagination and
experience on how things should look. It may not matter how many lines the
heading takes especially if it looks nice on the page. I don't have any
problem since my house number is three digits and the street name is short,
five characters, plus I spell out Avenue. Here are a few of my thoughts
on this!
If your house number is five digits and the street name is very long, one
might use the abbreviations for street, avenue, lane or Blvd. This might
keep the address on one line unless an apartment number is involved. This
may need to be written on the next line with the center command written
before the line begins, then the apartment number. If you write in grade
two braille in your braille letter, this alone should save some space. If
the Street name is more than one word, as a street I know of in our state
Capitol, Last Chance Gulch, Last Chance may appear on the second line of
the heading but a line break may show before Gulch could appear on the
second line thus bringing it to the third line. I would change the line
break to a return by pressing the dot eight key on my BT keyboard or
possibly enter on a QT Keyboard. I'd simply center Gulch. One might line
the word gulch under the number sign of the house number, hitting the
return again to center, then write City and State with zip code. Write a
return again and do the print date command as I outlined in a pprevious
post. One could set the first tab stop to five spaces in and start each
line of the heading five spaces in from the left margin. If you like, you
could write your heading from the left margin. This is truly your choice
but I usually center my heading. Once you create it and use the edit mode,
you can see how the lines break up before committing your efforts to hard
copy. If you are satisfied with how your file embosses, you then can keep
it handy to paste into a new letter by using the block commands menu.
HTH
Jim
At 11:39 AM 11/24/2004 , you wrote:
Dear Jim,
Your braille letter writing with the heading and signature files sounds
great.
When you center your address, what happens if some of it must go on a new
line? If I center my address, some of it won't fit on a single line. I end
up writing it on the margin so it will fit on the same line. I emboss on
8.5 by 11 paper.
Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
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