Maria, these were truly helpful thank you! Very much.
I shall have to play with them to get the hand of it, but this will make
editing on the Braillenote a lot easier.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maria Kristic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 12:14 PM
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Making unusual characters in find and replace
Yes, and you can do so both when doing a Find and when doing a Find and
Replace. With these types of characters, you have to use the Unicode
character feature. In general, if you want to enter a character by name,
press FUNCTION with X, type the name or part of, and tap ENTER; the first
result will be displayed, and if this isn't the character you want, press
READ with N to move to the next result until you find the one which you
want, and press ENTER to insert it. Alternatively, to enter the character
by its ASCII number, hold down SHIFT with READ, type the ASCII number while
holding down these keys, and release the keys after you've typed in the
ASCII number. When you press FUNCTION with X, pressing SPACE will cause you
to go into a list of the Unicode tables, and once you tap ENTER, you can
SPACE through the list of characters in the table, and tap ENTER when you
land on a character to insert it; you can use first-letter navigation when
browsing tables and the characters within them. When on a Unicode character
in a table, you can review or change how it is displayed on the Braille
display by pressing CONTROL with D, or, if you frequently use a character,
assign a key combination to it by pressing CONTROL with K; with both of
these commands, you will be told what the current dots/keystrokes are, and
your options are to Assign dots/keystrokes by pressing A, unassign
dots/keystrokes by pressing U, or reassign dots/keystrokes by pressing R.
To utilize your keystroke combination, you would press FUNCTION with C,
followed by the assigned keystroke. Finally, when pressing FUNCTION with X,
an alternative to entering the character by name or browsing to it in the
tables is to enter its hexadecimal code (note that a hexadecimal code for a
character is different from its ASCII value). Refer to "Extended Characters
Topics" in the index of your User Guide and all of its subtopics if you need
additional information.
Now, I'll handle your examples, and thanks for providing them because I was
honestly having some trouble understanding your post until I saw them. For
your first scenario, here's what you would do. First, move to the top of
your document with READ with T. Enter Find and Replace with [CONTROL with
F], and type F to search forward. In the "Find?" field, type the letter p.
Now, the e acute is ASCII 233 and in the Latin 1 Supplement table, so you
can input it in any of the ways I've described above. Because it seems the
easiest if you know the ASCII value, I'll use the example in this situation
to next hold down SHIFT with READ, type the number 233 while holding down
those keys, and then release the keys. Next, continue typing the word, so
type diatrie, and hit ENTER. At the "Replace with?" field, type "pediatric"
(without the quotes), tap ENTER, and at the "Replace all or first?" field,
type A for "All".
As for the other characters you provided in your post as examples, the ¦
(broken bar character) is hexadecimal code 0x00a6, ASCII 166 and in the
Latin 1 Supplement table. The ® (registered sign character) is hexadecimal
code 0x00ae, ASCII 174 and also in the Latin 1 Supplement table. Finally,
the § (section sign character) is hexadecimal code 0x00a7, ASCII 174 and
also in the Latin 1 Supplement table. You would follow the same procedure
to find and replace these as I described in the second paragraph of this
post, but, of course, substitute the e acute with the appropriate character.
BTW, you can find the hexadecimal code for a particular character by opening
the file called "Unicode Tables.uct" (tout the quotes, and you won't see the
extension when viewing the file on the BN) in the Dictionaries Folder of the
Flash Disk. You will have to press READ with X at the "List of all
documents in 'Dictionaries' folder" prompt to get to the "List of files"
view in order to see this file in the list. Search for the character, such
as typing in "broken bar" (without the quotes). On the example of that
character, on every line, you will see the hexadecimal code, followed by a
comma, followed by the character name, without any spaces, e.g.
"0x00a6,Broken Bar" (without the quotes).
HTH,
Maria
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "Braillenote list serv" <[email protected]
>Cc:
>Sent: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:26:15 -0500
>Subject: [Braillenote] Making unusual characters in find and replace
>Hi you all, I got a question. I have a Braillenote QT or the qwerty
>keyboard. I am wondering is there any way, to copy a word, or unusual
>characters into the "find and or replace" boxes. When I am editing books I
>will sometimes encounter a word, that needs to be fixed, but I haven't
>figured out how.
>For example, if I see the word
>Pédiatrie and want to fix it with Pediatric how can I do this?
>Also there are certain characters I encounter on a regular basis in the
>files I am editing things like ¦, ®, § and the like, that personally I
>would
>really like to do a global find and replace with, but as of yet don't know
>how on the Braillenote.
>Is there any way to do this?
>I have Keysoft version 5.0
>Thanks.
>Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
>Graduate Advisory Council
>www.guidedogs.com
>The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
>stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
> -- Vance Havner
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