The fonts available with the VN and BN depend on what printer you have set up. Even if you don't plan to print anything with your VN, you will need to pretend you will and set it up so the fonts connected with that printer will work.
For example, mine is set up to work with the HP DeskJet and Laserjet printers. The drivers are loaded and the fonts will work. If you go through the alphabet and press a letter, you should hear, "bold" for b, "underline" for u, etc. To set up the VN to be used with a printer, press p for print, s for setup printer. You are now at the printer setup list. Use the space bar to cycle through the list until you get to "printer type." Press the letter y and press enter if you want to change the default setting. A list of printers will appear. Cycle through the list until you come to the one you want and press enter. You are now at the next choice in the printer setup list. Press the space bar to get to the end of the list. Press the escape key and answer y to confirm the changes and save the settings. If you want lots of fonts to work for you, but you don't plan to print anything, choose a printer such as the LaserJet. The default printer doesn't offer any fonts at all. Fonts are mainly for the benefit of sighted people who are reading something on paper. They like the visual effects of how the print looks. The VN and BN do not support much of the fancy stuff sighted people use with Word or WordPerfect. If you are writing something for a sighted person who requires graphics and other fancy fonts and styles, you will need to use Word or WordPerfect on your PC to add the extra doodads. But if the sighted person doesn't care about graphics and other fancy stuff, then the VN and BN will do fine. Fortunately for me, I don't have to make fancy print documents, so I don't worry about fonts or styles. But students and secretaries an others of you who are required to create fancy fonts will have to learn how to make the documents appear the way your sighted readers want them to look. Most printers won't work with the VN or BN, so you may have to use a PC to print the documents. But you can certainly use the BN to create the drafts and you can email documents to sighted people and they could print them when they receive them. Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Korin Trytko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "braillenote list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:47 AM Subject: [Braillenote] the font comand : Hi, : I was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on how to use the font command. I've found next to nothing on this subject in my user manual. : On my voicenote, the font command is the control-t key combination. : I've tried hitting each letter just to see what it would do but aside from "underline" and "overstrike" none of the letters appear to have any effect. : : Basically I would like to know how, when and where I can use this command. : : Thanks in advance : : Korin : : : ___ : 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 :
