Dear Shelley, If you are reading a braille book and come across the slash sign, simply delete the slash and press dots 4,6 using the j and l keys. Remember that you will have to save the book as a Keyword document for the editing to be saved.
If you are writing bold or italics in a text document for sighted people to read, press control t for font. Press i for italics, b for bold and u for underline.. Press n to turn it on and f to turn it off. If you are creating a text document you plan to braille or emboss for blind people to read, the only font supported is the italic font. That's because in braille dots 4,6 stands for all three fonts. But the full version of DBT supports them all. I cannot remember whether or not the BN puts in the dots correctly. If you are italicizing more than three words, a double italic sign should be before the first letter of the first word and the single italic sign should come before the first letter of the last word to be italicized. If you are italicizing 3 words or less, dots 4,6 should come before the first letter of each word. The full version of DBT will always do it right, but I can't say for the BN, it's been so long since I tried it. The codes the BN uses are not the same as the codes DBT Win uses. To make sure the BN will produce correct braille, press shift hyphen and underline everything manually in your text document. But if you plan to have both sighted and blind people reading the document, then the sign produced by shift hyphen will look odd to the sighted. If you have a PC and DBT Win, you can write the font using the control t method, translate the document into WP 5.1, copy it to a CF card, insert the card into your PC, open the document in DBT Win, delete the asterisks Keysoft puts in WP documents and translate the file. Then both sighted and blind readers will be happy. I hope this isn't too confusing! Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote list serv" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:08 AM Subject: [Braillenote] Font characteristics in Keyword : Hi you all, got an obscure question, but want to know, and not sure where to : find it in the manual. I have a Braillenote Qt with Keysoft 6.1 : : How do I make the font Italic. Or bold or underlined. : : I am editing books for Bookshare and will come across a / which is supposed : to be an italicized I, but I don't know how to do the Italics. : : How do you do that? : : : 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 : : : : : ___ : To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit : http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote : : : __________ NOD32 1.1320 (20051212) Information __________ : : This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. : http://www.eset.com : :
