User's Manual

BrailleNote Apex BT User Guide
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7.6 Cursor Movement Modes.
KeySoft has a range of specific moving commands designed to make moving around a document
quick and accurate. These were listed in 3.8.2 Listening to a Document. When you are reading text
organized in sentences and paragraphs, then commands to move the cursor by sentence or
paragraph are very useful. For example:
SPACE with dot 4 moves the cursor to the beginning of the next sentence;
SPACE with dots 5-6 moves the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph.
However when working with poetry or lists, it would be more convenient to move by a line at a
time than by sentence. To allow the most efficient cursor movement for the text you are working
with, KeySoft provides 3 cursor movement modes; sentence and paragraph, line, and column. When
you change the cursor movement mode, the moving commands themselves don't change, just the
way in which they direct the cursor to move around the text.
To change the cursor movement mode while in a document, press SPACE with M repeatedly, until
you get to the one you want. These affect the operation of the
SPACE with dot 1, SPACE with dot 4, SPACE with dots 2-3 and SPACE with dots 5-6 reading
commands. They also affect what is spoken by these commands and by the
BACKSPACE with dots 2-3-5-6 and BACKSPACE with dots 1-4 commands.
The default cursor movement mode is Sentence and Paragraph. When in Line Reading
Mode:
SPACE with dot 4 reads the next line; SPACE with dots 5-6 reads the next section. Likewise,
SPACE with dot 1 reads the previous line and SPACE with dots 2-3 reads the previous section.
In Line Mode, the word "section" has a specific meaning. The Current Section starts at the last
blank line before the cursor, and continues until the first blank line after the cursor. Similarly, the
Next Section starts at the first blank line after the cursor, and continues until the following blank
line. Line Mode is useful when you are concerned with the layout of the document. Among other
purposes, it's a good way of checking for blank lines.
The third Reading Mode is called Column Mode, and acts as follows:
SPACE with dot 4 moves the cursor down a line but keeping it in the same column. It reads the
current word on this line;
SPACE with dots 5-6, reads the next section.
Column Mode is effective for reviewing text that is laid out in a table. It allows you to move up or
down a column in a table, reading entries one at a time.
Although we have only given two examples, the current cursor movement mode affects all reading
commands that relate to sentences and paragraphs. This is also true for deletion commands. For
instance, in Sentence and Paragraph mode, BACKSPACE with dots 1-4 deletes to the end of the
sentence, but in Line Mode it deletes to the end of the line. The cursor movement mode also affects
the Quick Mark commands in the Block Menu.