Re: how to get rid of page breaks in note pad
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Gene
I did a little checking last night. This problem may affect a lot more users than we thought. In Bookshare, it appears to me that they want books submitted as RTF files. I saved a test file using Openbook as an RTF file and, when reading it in Word and Wordpad, NVDA announces page break.
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I understand from your explanation why the page breaks are left in buy Kurzweil and Openbook. Are they left in by other popular OCR programs like Fine Reader and Omnipage, which mayy have a different name now? But I see no reason why NVDA should announce page breaks when reading except in the all punctuation setting. None is currently the default. You don't move by page by listening for page break to be announced in a Word processor. You use the move by page command. JAWS doesn't announce page breaks, at least with punctuation set to none. I haven't checked other settings. It is no more necessary for editing in an RTF file or a text file placed in a word processor to hear this announcement than it is when editing in Word with a Word document, where it isn't announced. The current setting does no good in general as far as I can see, and it may be really annoying and inconveniencing a lot of people who use NVDA for reading bookshare books around the world. It is important that this setting be changed to all by default, not none. Gene
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From: Gene Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 7:42 AM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] how to get rid of page breaks in note pad Did you read my messages? I believe I said to use the filter by edit field in the dialog. In that edit field, type page break and you will see only that symbol when you tab back to the list. -----Original Message----- From: Ann Parsons Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 6:21 AM To: main@techtalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] how to get rid of page breaks in note pad Good and wonderful morning, all, Now, here's our solution, right here. What did I say about the cat in the dairy? If I were the original poster, I'd do this when in notepad. That way the configuration would be saved for that program only. I don't think first-letter navigation works in that huge list, so you just have to persevere and keep arrowing down till you find it. There may be an easier way, but I don't know it. Take care guys, I think this here topic hath been solved. Just a suggestion, you may want to download that little braille translation program from APH, send-to-braille. It is also a back translator. See if converting your .brf files with Send-to-braille leaves out the page-breaks. Till then, turn it off in NVDA. Ann P. Original message: Hi everyone. Sorry I'm late to the party. I only caught the tail end of this thread, so if you folks have already figured this out, please just hit delete. I had this problem with long strings of equals signs in a document that I was reading with NVDA, but the same thing worked for me in NVDA when I told it to not say page break. I did the following: Hope this helps someone. -----Original Message----- Then we do know. That proves my point. Its clear that in converting the files, the page breaks are left in. I remember that message now, but since it wasn't important in determining what the problem was, I didn't try to remember it. I wasn't concerned with how the file had been created. I had seen the problem before, I recognized the description, and I found, after Ann made her valuable suggestion, how to set NVDA not to announce page breaks. Gene On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 09:14 PM, Gene wrote: It could not be more clear how the file that was being read made its way to the plain text format being read in Notepad. Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041 Always remember that computers are just glorified light bulbs - they rarely ~ Technician with the username Computer Bloke, on Technibble.com -- Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring EMAIL: akp@... Author of The Demmies: http://www.dldbooks.com/annparsons/ Portal Tutoring web site: http://www.portaltutoring.info Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost."
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