Hi Lisa, Actually, the command is BACKSPACE with dots 1-2. You don't do it for every single word, but you switch to Grade 2 every time you want to put in some info in Grade 2 in the Original Message. Like you said, that means every time you have a new cursor position. If you're putting in each answer beside its corresponding question, you will have to switch to Grade 2 every time you want to input an answer because the only places where Grade 2 will appear are between the Grade 2 and, in this case, the Computer Braille indicators on the Braille display. Grade 2 Braille input applies after the Grade 2 indicator, not before, which is why you couldn't put the indicator at the beginning and end of your answers and have it all be in grade 2; at the end of your first answer, the text would revert back to Computer Braille because the Original Message would be in Computer Braille, and all your subsequent text would be in Computer Braille unless you changed grades in the appropriate spots before answering the questions. Of course, if you were thinking of putting the answers altogether somewhere, and not beside the question, you could switch to Grade 2, type in all your answers in one spot, and then switch back to Computer Braille, if that was what you wanted to do. If you want to put all your answers before the Original Message, the new message is already in Grade 2, so you don't have to switch grades; the Computer Braille grade indicator appears before the Original Message starts to let you know that it's a different grade from the new message you're composing. I'm not sure if this is what your professor saw on the quiz, but I would guess that your Grade 2 Braille had been turned into Computer Braille symbols that didn't make much sense; for example, if you had just typed in Grade 2 without switching to Grade 2 from Computer Braille, and if you had put in the word the using the contraction (dots 2-3-4-6), this is the equivalent to the exclamation point in U.S. Computer Braille, so where you meant to put the word the, there would be an exclamation point instead. That's why you have to switch to Grade 2. HTH. Maria
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: Lisa Ehlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:34:05 +1000 (GMT-10) >Subject: [Braillenote] more on replying to emails >Hello Listers, >Sorry but I'm a little confused by Maria's pest and thought others might want >clarification too. >I do have a BT model so if I use the baackspace with dots 2 and 3 I guess I >have to do to do this every time I input info in contracted Braille? Is this >true for every single word or just every time I try to answer a question like >every time I move to a new cursor position in the original email? >Is there a way I can put the dots 2-3 with backspace at the beginning of >answering the questions and put another one at the end of the answers so I >don't have to constantly press that command? Also this is confusing to me >because when the prof sent the quiz back to me my answers did show up in >Computer Braille. When I checked the copy of the quiz I sent her the answers >were in contracted Braille. I'm confused. I have already told the prof I >will meet with her to take the quiz orally. I am just thinking of future >quizes and tests. I did think about posting something about this before I >took the quiz but I thought everything would be okay. >Thanks for everyone's help. >Lisa >___ >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
