Hi, Don, Duxbury will translate the greater-than sign, the at sign, less-than sign, and any other sign which does not have an equivalent grade 2 symbol as words. To get arround this, you must surround these symbols with the proper codes. For example, if you wanted to read an email address correctly, you would place the cursor at the beginning of the address, pres control shif b c. Go to the end of the address. Press control shift b 2. This can only be done in a _text document. When you translate the text document into braille, the computer braille signs will appear correctly, surrounded by the codes.
If you want, you can put the codes into your text document on your PC using Duxbury before translating the document into braille and transferring it to your BN. You would press alt-0 at the beginning of an email address and alt-2 at the end of it. Only WindowEyes has an option to translate computer braille as computer braille instead of words, (grin). I hope this isn't totally confusing. Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "braillenote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:55 PM Subject: [Braillenote] converting text file to a braille file : Well, I guess I must be having a senior moment or something. I haven't done this for quite a while, so maybe that's the reason. : : Anyway, I have a text file which I moved from the pc to the bn qt. The problem is that when I try reading the file things like the greater-than sign > is spelled out : in words rather than showing the sign. The same is for the left-brace and some other such symbols. The text, as a whole seems okay, but sure can't remember : how to get those special characters to show as symbols rather than words. : : I even tried creating a formatted braille file on the pc using Duxbury and moving that to the bn, but the characters are still spelled out as words. : : Also, I don't want to change the format of text files, just the braille ones. : : What is the obvious that I'm missing here? : : Thanks, : : Don : : : : : : ___ : To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit : http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote :
