Hi, Rose and List! I wonder, are you putting the book on your flash disk, or, is it on a cf card? If it's on the flash disk, maybe the disk is too full to do much of anything in the way of commands due to the size of the book. Try putting the book on a cf card and see what it does.
HTH Diane Garrett/Leader Daisy Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (918) 664-5731 > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rose Combs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected] >Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:05:00 -0700 >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Making unusual characters in find and replace >How would I go about replacing a tab character with a space? >Also, I have a medical word book which I scanned, it is about 800 pages >in print. When I transferred it to the Braille Note it seems to work >fine except for two problems. First, when I press the go to end of file >command (space with dots 4,5,6) I move to about page 113 in the document >and hang. I can use the move by paragraph command to move on down or I >can do a find or go to page until I get near the end of the file. In >K1000 the file in its KES format and in the BRL format is complete but >on the Braille note I get into the V's and it just seems to stop. >I suppose I could break this into two files but the reason for it at all >is to be able to search for surgical instruments and other equipment in >a reasonably fast fashion. >Any clues? >Rose Combs >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shelley L. >Rhodes >Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:03 AM >To: Braillenote List >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Making unusual characters in find and replace >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 [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 >----- 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. 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