Thanks for confirming that you couldn't duplicate it either, Laura.  I had 
deleted the original message, so I was writing in the format I thought, but 
wasn't positive, Terry had been writing in; since I wasn't able to duplicate, I 
was sure I hadn't been writing correctly.

Another problem the binding space solves is, for example, the mispronunciation 
of "$1 million" (dollar sign, the number 1, a regular space, the word "million" 
(without the quotes)) as "1 dollars" instead of "1 million dollars".

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "laura wolk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Braillenote List <[email protected]
>Sent: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:01:39 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: RE: [Braillenote] strange goings-on with my BrailleNote

>Hello Terry,


>I, the she of whom you speak, meant this: A binding space is a cue to tell 
>Keysoft that you are not at the end of a sentence, though a full stop (period) 
>is present.  As I said, when I wrote the message I was in a big rush, and have 
>since created a file and did not have the same problems as you did.  However, 
>the binding space command can be very useful, especially if you rely heavily 
>on speech.

>For instance: if in your nut sales file or any other file, you have the 
>following sentence: "Ms.  Earles bought 5 cans of nuts." If you had your bn 
>reading by sentence, it would stop after the word "Ms." because it is followed 
>by a period (dots 2,5,6).  But Ms.  is not the end of the sentence, nuts is.  
>To cue the bn that this is not really the end of a sentence, instead of 
>hitting the spacebar after the period, use enter with b (control with space) 
>to enter a binding space.  Now, again, try reading the current line, and you 
>will hear the entire sentence spoken.

>HTH, Laura



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