If you are familiar with a touch phone or even your cell phone you will find that the Number 1 is in the upper left corner of the square. The num pad on your key board is the opposite of your telephone thus meaning that the number one is in the lower left corner. Hope this h elps. Jean
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Debbra Piening Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 7:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CnD] Recipe Formatting Tips (Moderator Approved) Thanks, Nicole, I had no idea these were available, because I never use the num pad. There are all kinds of combinations. The num pad is very slow for me, but I think I'll have to do some experimenting, just the same. Deb -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicole Massey Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 5:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CnD] Recipe Formatting Tips (Moderator Approved) Hey, folks, I've noticed a lot of formats come through here for recipes. Here are some tips to make things read easier. First, deleting extra lines of blank space from a recipe when you send it makes the recipe flow better for a screen reader and makes it easier on those of us who extract recipes into a standard format. I've just finished processing about fifty recipes from this list in the last three or four days that I saved since I joined the list, and it took a while, and my most common task was killing all the extra lines in the messages. Taking a minute or two when you send out a recipe will make things easier to read and easier on those saving in specific formats. Second, if you're using a Windows machine here's something neat. (I know Mac's can do this too, but I don't know the codes) Hold down your ALT key and, with the number pad lock on, type the following numbers: 248 ° (If you put an F or C after it Jaws users will even hear it say Fahrenheit or Celsius after it says the word Degrees) 0188 ¼ 0189 ½ 0190 ¾ These are much easier to follow when listening to the screen reader and also make for cleaner files. Some of you may notice I use some single and two letter abbreviations for things. This is because I keep all recipes in the old Meal Master format, using their blind friendly format option. (As far as I know this old DOS program is the only recipe management program that made an effort to accommodate us) I post a legend at the end of all messages I send now, but here are some of the standard abbreviations I use: c cup ea Each ts teaspoon tb tablespoon qt quart pt pint g gallon ds dash bn bunch cn can pk package bx box sm small md medium lg large oz ounce lb pound There are others, but these are the ones I can think of now. One more thing -- it really helps if recipes have serving amounts. Sometimes I can calculate them based on weights and volume, but it's a lot easier if they include them. So if you know, please include them -- it makes it a lot easier to figure out how much needs to be made. Hope some of this helps folks. Y'all are sending out some really great stuff here. _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
