User's Manual

BrailleNote Apex QT User Guide
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7.9 Inserting the Time Date or Calculator
Result.
You can insert the time, date or calculator result directly into a document instead of typing them.
With the cursor in the appropriate place in your current document, press FUNCTION with I. In the
Insert Menu select Date, Time, or Calculator result as required.
If you select the date, KeySoft prompts: "Insert today's date or printing date?"
If you press T, KeySoft inserts today's date. If you press P, KeySoft puts in a special
"Insert date" indicator $dtp, and the current date is substituted whenever the document is
embossed or printed, or when it is used as a template file.
If you choose to insert from the Calculator, KeyPlus prompts:
"Insert result or whole calculation?"
Press R to insert the Result or C to insert the whole calculation.
The most recent result from the calculator is inserted into the document, which saves you having to
remember and re-type it. If you select C, the whole calculation is entered, for example “3 + 7 = 10.”
There is one additional item on the "Insertion Menu,” named "Unicode character.” This allows
the insertion of extended characters from the Unicode character tables. See also 7.18.1 Inserting
Extended Characters.
7.10 Binding Spaces.
A binding space is simply a space that binds the words on either side of it to each other in a way
that a normal space cannot.
You can use a binding space to keep two words together on the same line, so that they cannot be
split apart by the text breaking at the end of the line at a normal space. For example, it would be
undesirable for a first initial and a last name, such as T. Brown, to appear on separate lines.
The other place where binding spaces are useful is in the search function when searching for an
e-mail - you need to use binding spaces instead of normal spaces in a string of words to be searched
for. In other contexts of search and/or replace, this is not necessary.
Pressing CONTROL with SPACE produces a "binding space.” It is shown as $bsp on the Braille
display.