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BrailleNote Apex QT User Guide
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7 Advanced Word Processing.
This chapter describes some of the advanced features of KeyWord that allow you to create
documents with more complex formats, and quickly make extensive changes to a document. It also
discusses the embossing of text documents and handling documents of differing types, such as
Braille or Microsoft Word.
The content of this chapter is probably one of the more involved in the VoiceNote User Guide, but
the elegance of KeyWord is such that often the default format settings more than adequately cover
document formatting needs. It is suggested that you read the overview presented in the next section,
and confine your initial reading of the remaining sections to areas of specific interest to you. As you
become more familiar with KeyWord, revisit specific sections to maximize your understanding and
use of the VoiceNote.
7.1 Overview.
This chapter starts by defining the difference between "text" and "Braille" documents and how the
BrailleNote QT handles them. A text document is prepared for presentation in ink-print format. A
Braille document is usually prepared for presentation in embossed or refreshable Braille form.
We then look at how the format of a text document, that is an ink-print style document, is
controlled. Here we consider Line layout, Page settings, and commands for centering, justifying,
underlining, and changing font types.
Next we consider the parameters associated with taking a text document, and performing the
"on-the-fly" translation of this document to provide output to a Braille embosser.
Following that is a section on Block commands, looking at the capability to quickly manipulate
large blocks of text and generate form letters.
Next are several sections on ways to make it easier to read a document's content, inserting dates,
times and calculator results, binding spaces and pasting details from the Address list.
Saving a document to the same or a different disk drive is covered next, along with abandoning the
document without saving changes. The procedure to save documents as different document types is
also discussed.
KeyWord's ability to create and open text documents is looked at next, together with the
"on-the-fly" translation of these documents for Braille embossing.
Finally, there is saving and restoring default format settings for a document and Unicode character
support for extended characters.