User's Manual

BrailleNote Apex BT User Guide
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7.4.2.5 Ink-Print Page Settings.
When you translate a Braille document to a text document, a group of page settings is used for the
entire text document. To access the Ink-print Page Settings, select "Page Settings" from the
Ink-print Settings Menu. KeySoft displays: "Ink-Print Page settings list."
This is a similar group of settings to the Braille list, comprising first page number, paper size, and
top and bottom margins. The initial values for Page Length and Page Width follow the values in the
Printer Set-up List, and a prompt indicates if a setting is changed. The initial top and bottom
margins are 6 lines, or one inch, suitable for print. The Ink-print Page Settings indicator is $psi and
it is positioned at the top of the document.
Values that you set here are used in the translated versions of your Braille document.
7.5 Block Commands.
The ability to manipulate blocks of text is an invaluable editing aid because it lets you mark a
passage and delete it, move it, or copy it. This saves typing time and avoids the introduction of new
typing errors. Blocks can be moved from one location to another within a document, copied
repeatedly throughout a document, or transferred from one document to another. A block can be
copied from one KeySoft task to another. For example, you can copy text between the Word
Processor, Planner, E-mail, Address List, Database Manager, and Games.
A "block" of text means any continuous section of text. A block can be any size from a single
character, a few words, a sentence, a couple of paragraphs, all the way up to an entire document.
You define a block of text by marking one end and then moving the cursor to the other end of the
block. If you want to keep the block marked for future reference you can insert markers at each end
of the block. You can then move or copy the marked block in a three-step procedure:
1. Move or copy the block to the clipboard;
2. Move to where you want to insert the block;
3. Paste the clipboard to the required place in the text.
The clipboard is simply a temporary storage place for the block of text. It is provided automatically
when you use a command that requires the clipboard. The word "paste" comes from the old
practice of cutting out a section of printed text from its page and pasting it back in a different place.