[blindlaw] outlining method- maybe an oddball idea

[Rod Alcidonis]

Jay:

The way I studied for big picture idea -- I would study the headings alone 
and after a few reads, I usually become comfortable with the structure of 
the given outline. I used that same technique for the bar and it worked well 
for me.

Rod Alcidonis
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From: "Bill Spiry" <bspiry at comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] outlining method- maybe an oddball idea

> Helpful. Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Munro
> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:52 AM
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>
> I had trouble with roman numerals too during my 1L year, both in the
> outlines I prepared and in textbooks.  Here's how I dealt with the issue.
>
> To have JAWS distinguish between Arabic and roman numerals, Open your JAWS
> default dictionary and create definitions for the roman numerals.  Here 
> are
> some things to keep in mind when you do this.
>
> 1.  Have JAWS say "roman two," or something similar, for roman numeral 
> two,
> "roman three" for roman numeral three, ETC.
>
> 2.  Make sure your definitions are not case sensitive; that way, JAWS will
> catch both big and little roman numerals.  Of course, you could create two
> sets of definitions, one for big roman numerals and another for little 
> ones,
> with JAWS saying "big roman two" and "little roman two" respectively.  I
> chose not to do this.
>
> 3.  Skip roman numerals that consist of only one letter: I, V, L, X, C, D,
> and M.  These pop up too often in normal text.  It will only confuse 
> things
> if JAWS is treating them as roman numerals instead of letters.
>
> Good luck prepping for exams.  I hope my comments have been helpful.
>
> Onward!
>
> Rob Munro
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Johnston
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:44 PM
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> Subject: [blindlaw] outlining method- maybe an oddball idea
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks to everyone who sent me ideas for outlining.  Bruce, your ideas 
> about
> K1000 were especially generative.  I realized that it would be easiest 
> (for
> me) to comprehend an outline if it were in the tree format that is used to
> expand/collapse folders and subfolders in Kurzweil's Save As window.  Each
> level would represent a certain heading level, and opening a branch would
> display its subheadings.  It would allow tracing of paths like a flow 
> chart.
> Has anyone else thought of or tried using something like this?  Is this
> something that could be done in Excel?  I'm not super proficient at the
> program, but would have no clue how to construct a database (perhaps the
> alternative).
>
> Using the search feature in Word to jump from a specified heading to the
> same specified heading is fine, except that it is a one-trick pony unless
> altering the search.  Using the move by paragraph operation is good for
> moving step by step, but it doesn't allow easy comprehension of the big
> picture; JAWS doesn't even do a great job distinguishing between Roman and
> Arabic numerals.  Kurzweil might be a better option for creating a 
> standard
> outline, but it will take some getting used to losing the 10 digit keypad
> for navigation.  So far, I've only used the program for OCR, and save the
> files to Word for reading.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Jay
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