[nabs-l] Reading bookshare books with apex

Liliya Asadullina lily2011a at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 02:01:40 UTC 2014


Amanda,
The regular find commands work in the bookreader.  If you open the
bookreader on your braille note and get it to read the brf file.  It
should work.
Let me know if you need more directions on how to read the file with bookreader.
Thanks,
Liliya

On 10/7/14, Sophie Trist via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Amanda, you can type in the find field in a BRF file on a QT. The
> trick is that you have to type as if the QT were a braille
> keyboard. Some of the home row keys act as braille dots. S
> becomes dot 3, D becomes dot 2, F becomes dot 1, J=4, K=5, and
> L=6. So say you wanted to find the word dog in a BRF file, you
> would press Read+F for find, then press either F or B for forward
> or back, then type dog in braille, 1-4-5 (F, J, K), 1-3-5 (F, S,
> K), 1-2-4-5 (F, D, Jk, K.) Hope this helps!
>
> Yours,
> Sophie
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Amanda via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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> Subject: [nabs-l] Reading bookshare books with apex
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>
>
> Hi guys,
> How can I search for a particular chapter in a bookshare book on
> the qt? I have tried using the find commands but it doesn't let
> me type cause of the Brf file type I think.Amanda
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