Hi James and Terri I never heard of centering an address. You either left justify it or tab over and put it under the date. You center titles. This is the government way. Where did you learn to center an address? If you do, does that mean you also center your closing?
Terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: James Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:28 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Writing Braille Letters 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 >___ >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
