Terri:
While I sympathize with your wish and it would make sense for the user to
determine his/her own paragraph boundaryes, I dare say this would be
confusing for many. The BS and VS conform to MsWord's defintion of a
paragraph, that is, a hard return. A few years back, the difference between
MsWord's definition and the common usage you site (two hard returns) caused
havoc with some braille translation software.
No rest for the wicked, eh?
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:44 PM
Subject: [GWN] reading by paragraph
Happy New Year to All,
I just finished catching up on my email and I wanted to make a few
comments about the BSP'S ability to read by paragraph.
I don't know the BT commands, I've got a QWERTY, but you can set up the
BSP to read by paragraph using voice or braille. To get the voice to read
by paragraph, go to the settings menu and arrow down to "reading unit."
Choose paragraph using the space bar then press enter to save the setting.
You will now be able to listen to a paragraph when you press the down
arrow or up arrow keys.
You must set this up every time you open a document.
You can also use the scroll buttons to move by paragraph. You set this up
using the options menu. This setting is permanent.
Unfortunately, the BSP considers a paragraph boundary to be a single hard
return. So, if you're reading an ASCII text file or a .brf file, every
hard return will be viewed as a paragraph.
This isn't good. I was taught a print paragraph boundary was two hard
returns. Some sighted people like to use one hard return followed by an
indent of 5 spaces. Others like two hard returns followed by an indent of
5 spaces. A paragraph in a braille document is a hard return followed by
two spaces.
I hope an upgrade will come out so the user can determine his or her own
paragraph boundaries.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
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