I find the system quite sensible, but that is just me. It makes
sense for the dots to go 3 2 1 4 5 6 because that is how they
always go, no matter what, but function keys start at 1 and go to
4 because that is how people number keys; start at 1 and go up,
from left to right, just like on a keyboard for a pc. I am not
sure why enter and backspace are reversed, but all other
notetakers with 8 dot keyboards that I know of do this same
thing, so it makes sense from that standpoint.
Have a great day,
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: Tessa <[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:08:53 -0400
Subject: [GWN] Keyboard questions
Hi all
I'm just curious why on a perkins brailleer the backspace is on
the right, the return key on the left but the bs has them on
opposite ends? It's a touch confusing when coming from using a
brailleer to the bs to remember which is which.
Which also raises the issue of key numbering. We number the
braille keys starting at the space bar so reading from the left
hand side of the key board we have the backspace, then dots 3 2
and 1 but when we go to the function keys they are numbered the
opposite way, don't you think this is needlessly confusing? why
not have the function keys numbered the same way as the braille
keys?
Or maybe others don't find this as confusing as I do periodically
anyway. the manual will say fble: and fble. and I have to pause
to think now just which keys are those anyway, LOL. Of course
I've been using a qwerty keyboard for so long I must admit
writing braille again is also a challenge, I find myself
continuously hitting dot #: when I mean the letter a, go figure.
None the less I definitely like the bs and am glad I purchased
it.
Tessa
