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BrailleNote Apex QT 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:
READ with O moves the cursor to the beginning of the next sentence;
READ with 9 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 READ with S repeatedly, until
you get to the one you want. These affect the operation of the
READ with U, READ with O, READ with 7 and READ with 9 reading commands. They also
affect what is spoken by these commands and by the CONTROL with 8 and
CONTROL with I commands.
The default cursor movement mode is Sentence and Paragraph. When in Line Reading
Mode:
READ with O reads the next line; READ with 9 reads the next section. Likewise,
READ with U reads the previous line and READ with 7 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:
READ with O moves the cursor down a line but keeping it in the same column. It reads the current
word on this line;
READ with 9, 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, CONTROL with I 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.