[Ohio-talk] editing on orbit

[Deborah Kendrick]

P.S.  One important caveat that I most definitely do remember is that it
only display what you put into it.  It has no built-in translator.  That
actually should not pose a problem for mose purposes.  If you download a
book from BARD, for example that is already a braille file, that is what you
will see on the Orbibt.  It will be in the old EBAE or the new UEB, but you
cannot alter it. 
Similarly, if you load an rtf file that has been given you by a sighted
person, it will be letter for letter, not translated.  Think of it as a kind
of additional window minus the fancy translators that the far more expensive
units have.  That said, you can do what they call wquic and dirty braille
and translate files yourself with free software.  
Deborah


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 7:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] editing on orbit

Maybe I am ot of date, but when I used the Orbit a year ago, you could jump
around and I think search. But those editing functions were not there. I had
to evaluate the Orbit at that time, and I remember urging them to build in
those functins. I hope that they did.
Barbara
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> On Jan 11, 2017, at 6:05 PM, Cheryl Fischer via Ohio-Talk
<ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Deborah K. wrote the following in an article about Orbit:
> 
> No matter what we are reading - a paper turned in by a student, a book 
> for pleasure, or a letter a coworker is drafting to send outside the 
> office, reading involves a certain amount of file and text 
> manipulation. The Orbit Reader 20 makes it possible to cut, paste, 
> copy, protect, rename, or delete files. It also offers the user the 
> ability to edit within a file - deleting or inserting text, cutting or 
> copying text, making notes on material being reviewed, and so on.
> 
> 
> 
> Does the final version of the Orbit Reader allow one to write text 
> into a file?
> 
> 
> 
> Does it allow one to do a find command to search for a word or other 
> search string?
> 
> What about moving forward and back by chapter in a book or by heading?
> 
> 
> 
> Cheryl
> 
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