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                             Menu Reference Guide





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                                                             Table Of Contents

Introduction                                                     1
      Welcome!.................................................  1
      Manual Organization......................................  1
            What To Do First...................................  2

Alphabetical List of Menu Items                                  3
      8/6-dot Display Options (8)..............................  3
      Abbreviation Options (A).................................  4
      Activate Speech Options (A)..............................  4
      Active Window............................................  5
      Attribute Counter........................................  5
      Attribute Filter Options (A).............................  5
      Attribute Negating (N)...................................  7
      Attribute Options (A)....................................  7
      Background Attribute (B).................................  8
      Blank or Space Options (B)...............................  8
      Blinking Attribute (K)...................................  9
      Boundary Options (B).....................................  9
      Braille Display Location Options (B)....................  10
      Braille Display Options (D).............................  10
      Braille Dot Tables File Options (B).....................  11
      Braille Hardware Options (H)............................  11
      Braille Keyboard Hotkeys (H)............................  12
            Function Menu.....................................  13
            Key Menu..........................................  14
            Sticky Key Menu...................................  14
            Other Braille Hotkey Selections...................  15
      Braille Keyboard Options (K)............................  15
      Braille Keyboard Row Options (R)........................  17
      BrailleMate Keyboard Hotkeys (M)........................  17
            Function Menu.....................................  19
            Key Menu..........................................  19
            Sticky Key Menu...................................  20
            Other BrailleMate Hotkey Selections...............  20
      Braille Options (B).....................................  21
      Capital Letter Options (C)..............................  22
      Character Attribute Options (A).........................  23
      Character Display Options (H)...........................  23
      Comment (C).............................................  24
      Communication Options (C)...............................  24
      Configuration File......................................  25
      Control Character Braille Options (C)...................  25
      Control Character Options (C)...........................  26


      Count Options (C).......................................  26
      Cursor Location Options (C).............................  27
      Cursor Position Options (P).............................  27
      Cursor Type Options (T).................................  28
      Default Commands........................................  28
      Default Configuration File Options (C)..................  28
      Default Dot Tables File Options (D).....................  29
      Default Environment File Options (E)....................  29
      Default File Options (D)................................  30
      Define Dictionary Options (D)...........................  30
      Define Field Data Menu (D)..............................  31
      Define Field Name Menu (N)..............................  32
      Dictionary Options (D)..................................  32
      Display Cursor Options (D)..............................  33
      Display Width (W).......................................  33
      Echo Options (E)........................................  35
      Environment File Options (E)............................  35
      Feedback Options (F)....................................  36
      File Options (F)........................................  36
      Foreground Attribute (F)................................  37
      Form Processing Options (O).............................  37
      Global Options (G)......................................  40
      Grade 2 Braille Display Options (G).....................  40
      Graphic Character Braille Options (G)...................  41
      Graphic Character Options (G)...........................  43
      Help (F1)...............................................  43
      Highlight Attribute (H).................................  44
      Hotkeys (H).............................................  44
            What Are Hotkeys?.................................  44
            Adding Hotkeys....................................  45
            Other Hotkey Selections...........................  46
      If Condition Menu.......................................  47
      Interrupt Display Options (I)...........................  49
      Key Click Options (K)...................................  49
      Key Panel Options (K)...................................  50
      Key Panel Repeat Delay (D)..............................  50
      Key Panel Repeat Rate (R)...............................  50
      Keyboard Options (K)....................................  50
      Line Blank Options (L)..................................  51
      Line Break Options (B)..................................  52
      Line Number Options (N).................................  52
      Line Options (L)........................................  53
      Line Pause Options (P)..................................  53
      Link Display with Cursor Options (L)....................  53
      Location Menu (L).......................................  54
      Macros (M)..............................................  54


            What Are Macros?..................................  55
            Defining a Macro..................................  55
            Advanced Macro Functions..........................  57
            Using "If" Statements: The If Condition Menu......  60
      Margin Bell Options (M).................................  61
      Menu System.............................................  62
      Modes...................................................  63
      Monitor Rate Options (M)................................  63
      Monitor String Menu (S).................................  64
      Monitors (O)............................................  65
            What Are Monitors?................................  65
            Setting a Monitor.................................  66
            Region Method (R).................................  66
            String Method (S).................................  67
            Function (F)......................................  69
      Multiple Line Display Options (M).......................  69
      Navigation Commands.....................................  69
      Number Options (N)......................................  70
      Panel Keys Hotkeys (P)..................................  71
            Description of Panel Keys.........................  71
            Setting Panel Key Functions.......................  72
            Function Menu.....................................  73
            Key Menu..........................................  73
            Other Panel Key Hotkey Selections.................  74
      Pause Options (P).......................................  74
      Place Markers (P).......................................  75
            What Are Place Markers?...........................  75
            Setting a Place Marker............................  75
      Punctuation Options (P).................................  76
      Quit (Q)................................................  77
      Region Method (R).......................................  77
      Repeat Graphic Character Options (R)....................  77
      Repeat Punctuation Options (R)..........................  78
      Reset...................................................  78
      Reset to Undefine (R)...................................  79
      Review Options (R)......................................  79
      Right Cells Past Right Edge Options (R).................  80
      Route Delay (R).........................................  80
      Screen Options (S)......................................  80
      Search..................................................  82
            Using F2 to Search for a Function.................  82
      Set Active Window (A)...................................  83
      Set Direction (D).......................................  83
      Set Search Method (M)...................................  83
      Show (S)................................................  84
      Silent Window Options (I)...............................  84


      Single Quote Options (U)................................  85
      Skip Blank Area Options (K).............................  85
      Soft Cursor Tracking Options (T)........................  86
            Tracking by Character.............................  86
            Tracking by Attribute.............................  87
      Special Key Menu........................................  88
      Speech Options (S)......................................  89
      Start-up Options........................................  89
      String Method (S).......................................  90
      Synchronization Options (Y).............................  90
      Text Options (T)........................................  91
      Text Searching Options (T)..............................  92
      Timer Interrupt Display Options (T).....................  93
      Tones Options (T).......................................  93
      Upper Case Letter Options (U)...........................  93
      Verbal Options (V)......................................  94
      Vibration Options (V)...................................  94
      Video Interrupt Display Options (V).....................  95
      Visual Bar Display Options (V)..........................  95
      Windows (W).............................................  95
            What Are Windows?.................................  96
            Setting a Window..................................  96

Appendix A: Screen Power Menu Outline                           99






                                                                  Introduction


Welcome!

Welcome to the Screen Power Integrated Menu Reference Guide, an alphabetical 
description of each of Screen Power's menu items.  Use this document as you 
would a reference book, to look up specific Screen Power menu entries or 
concepts.  Read the sections below to find out how to use this and the rest of 
the Screen Power documentation.  


Manual Organization

Screen Power documentation is divided into four parts:

          Installation & Trouble-shooting Guide: includes all installation 
          information, including Quick Start Guide and Trouble-shooting 
          section.  Use the Installation Guide to install your Screen Power 
          system, including hardware and software.  This document is available 
          in print, in braille, on disk, and on audio tape.

          User Guide: is a step-by-step guide through Screen Power's features.  
          Use the User Guide to learn about Screen Power.  It begins with 
          basic concepts, such as how to use basic navigation and reading 
          commands and how to use the Power Braille 40 panel keys.  It 
          continues with intermediate and advanced usage, including how to use 
          the menu system, how to create hotkeys, windows and monitors, and 
          how to use the advanced macros and form processing features.  Each 
          concept includes step-by-step, hands-on examples.  This document is 
          available in print, in braille, on disk, and on audio tape.

          Menu Reference Guide: (this document) is an alphabetical guide to 
          every Screen Power menu item and concept.  Use the Reference Guide 
          as you would a dictionary or encyclopedia.  Every item is explained 
          fully, including where it appears, what its options are, what the 
          defaults are, and how it is used.  This document is available in 
          print, on disk, and in braille.  

          Command Summary: contains all Screen Power commands, including Power 
          Braille 40 panel key commands, computer keyboard commands, and 
          braille keyboard commands, for


          both braille mode and speech mode.  This document is included in 
          print, on disk, and in braille.


What To Do First

If you are not familiar with Screen Power's operation and menu system, we 
suggest you first refer to the User Guide, a tutorial-based guide to Screen 
Power's operation, menus, and functions.  If you are familiar with computers 
and with speech and braille access systems, you may want to begin with Chapter 
2: Intermediate Usage, in the User Guide.  If you are new to computers, speech 
devices, and braille access systems, we strongly recommend you go through 
Chapter 1: Beginning Usage.  This will give you familiarity with Screen 
Power's commands and Power Braille 40's layout.  Chapter 2 will then introduce 
you to the menu system and more advanced commands and concepts, such as 
settings hotkeys, windows, and place markers, and saving environments.  

Once you have learned the basics of Screen Power's operation, you should use 
this book (the Menu Reference Guide) as a tool to learn new material or to 
look up things you may have forgotten.  You will find Screen Power's menu 
system to be consistent and logical, enabling you to learn new concepts on 
your own once you have mastered the basics.  






                                               Alphabetical List of Menu Items


This reference guide lists Screen Power Integrated menu items and concepts.  
Some are general topics about Screen Power operation, but most are items from 
Screen Power's menu system.  Entries are in alphabetical order.  Following 
most entries is a letter or number in parentheses.  This character is the 
direct entry command from the function's menu.  For example, the entry "Global 
Options" appears in the main menu; it has a direct entry command of "G."  The 
direct entry character is valid only in that menu (for example, the letter G 
also selects "Grade 2 Braille Display Options" in the Braille Options menu).  

Each topic includes a description of where the item occurs in Screen Power's 
menu system, what its options are, its defaults (if any), and a brief 
explanation of how to use the item, often including examples.  At the end of 
each section, you are referred to other topics for further information, if 
needed.  

Refer to the Appendix for an outline of the menu system.

Note: Most menus include a "Quit" option.  Each Quit option has its own name 
      ("Quit Screen Power Integrated Main Menu," "Quit Hotkey Menu," and so 
      on).  We have limited the notation in this Menu Reference Guide to the 
      word "Quit" without the rest of the name.  For a full listing of each 
      Quit item, see the menu outline in Appendix A of this document.


8/6-dot Display Options (8)

This item pertains to braille only.  It appears in the Braille Display Options 
menu from the Braille Options menu.  Its options are E: Enable 8-dot Display 
and D: Disable 8-dot Display.  The default is Enable.  

The Power Braille 40 hardware comes with an 8-dot display (Navigator can have 
a 6-dot or 8-dot display).  Using dots 7 and 8, you can receive much more 
information in a single cell.  We highly recommend this setting.  Screen Power 
divides ASCII characters into groups of 32 (with some exceptions), and 
displays them as follows:



Control characters (ASCII 0-31)     Dots 7 and 8 plus character
Punctuation characters (ASCII 32-63)Just the character (dots 1-6 only)
Upper case characters (ASCII 64-94) Dot 7 plus character
Lower case characters (ASCII 95-126)Just the character (dots 1-6 only)
Delete character (ASCII 127)        Dot 7 plus character
Extended ASCII 128-159              Dot 8 plus character
Extended ASCII 160-191              Dot 7 plus character
Extended ASCII 192-223              Dots 7 and 8 plus character
Extended ASCII 224-254              Dot 8 plus character
Hard space (extended ASCII 255)     Blank character (no dots)


Note: You can display the cursor as dots 7 and 8 even if you are using 6-dot 
      braille.  The cursor indicator is independent of 6-dot or 8-dot braille, 
      and is set through a Braille Options menu item titled Cursor Type 
      Options.  This sub-menu is in the Display Cursor Options menu.  

See the entries in this Menu Reference Guide titled "Control Character Braille 
Options," "Upper Case Letter Options," "Cursor Type Options," and "Graphic 
Character Braille Options" for more information about these character types.


Abbreviation Options (A)

This item pertains to speech only.  It appears in the Verbal Options sub-menu 
in the Communication mode, Review mode, and Screen mode menus (the Verbal 
Options menu in Keyboard mode is different and does not contain this item).  
Its options are I: Ignore and U: Use.  The default is Ignore.  Screen Power 
has a special list of common abbreviations.  If you select Use, Screen Power 
will use this list.  For example, if you type "Ave." as the abbreviation for 
Avenue, Screen Power will say the word "avenue."  You must follow these 
abbreviations with a period for Screen Power to correctly interpret them.  If 
you select Ignore, Screen Power will say "ave" for this abbreviation.  We 
recommend you try this option to improve readability when reviewing text.  

Screen Power's abbreviation algorithm is quite sophisticated.  For example, if 
you type the letters "Dr." before a capitalized name, Screen Power will read 
the word as "Doctor."  If, however, the letters "Dr." are followed by anything 
but a space and a capital letter, Screen Power reads the word as "Drive."  


Activate Speech Options (A)

This item appears in the Global Options menu.  Its options are:



      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

The default is Enable.  Select Disable if you want to turn off the speech 
output.  You will then have only braille output.  All the speech-related 
hotkeys will be silent, and Screen Power will pass over any speech commands 
inside macros.  


Active Window

Screen Power is always in a window.  It is usually in a full-screen window.  
You can set up to 100 windows in each of Braille mode, Communication mode, and 
Review mode.  You can switch to any pre-defined window at any time.  This is 
called the Active Window.  The active window can be the entire screen or any 
rectangular, pre-defined portion of the screen.  You can also have the braille 
display be in one active window (defined in Braille Options) and the speech in 
another active window (defined in Communication or Review Options).  In this 
case, speech and braille will be doing different things.  

When you are in the braille active window, you cannot move the braille display 
out of its borders.  When you are in a speech active window (Communication or 
Review mode), Screen Power will read only the text that is inside that window.  
It is as though that window was the entire screen.  You can set the active 
window through the Screen Power main menu command "S: Set Active Window."  See 
the entry on "Set Active Window" for more information.  


Attribute Counter

This item is set through the String Method sub-menu of the Monitor and If 
Condition menus (the If Condition menu is only activated when you put an "If" 
statement in a macro).  When you select an attribute to monitor or an "If" 
statement in a macro, you must tell Screen Power how many character spaces 
should have this attribute.  Screen Power can count up to 20 character spaces, 
so you should enter a number from 1-20.  There is no default.  See the String 
Method section of the "Monitors" entry or the Using If Statements: The If 
Condition Menu section of the "Macros" entry in this Reference Guide for more 
information.  


Attribute Filter Options (A)

The Attribute Filter Options menu appears in the Windows menu in Communication 
and Review modes and in the Screen mode menu.  Its options are:



      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      A:  Attribute Options
      C:  Comment
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

In Screen mode, you are specifying attributes to filter in or out as they 
scroll onto the screen.  In Communication and Review mode windows, you are 
specifying attributes to filter in or out of a window.  Select E to enable 
attribute filtering in a window and D to disable it.  The default is Disabled.  
Select A to specify which attributes you want to filter in or out.  Select C 
to enter a comment string and S to show your settings.  

You must specify the color or colors and attribute or attributes to filter.  
Do this via the Attribute Options menu.  Its options are:

      F:  Foreground
      B:  Background
      H:  Highlight
      K:  Blinking
      N:  Negating
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select F if the attribute occurs in the foreground of the computer screen.  
Select B if it is a background attribute.  You can specify both a foreground 
and a background or just one.  Foreground and background selections each lead 
you to another sub-menu of all the possible color choices.  They are:

      B:  Black
      U:  Blue
      G:  Green
      C:  Cyan
      R:  Red
      M:  Magenta
      N:  Brown
      W:  White
      I:  Ignore

The default is Ignore.  

You can also select Blinking or Highlight (you can monitor both if needed).  
The defaults are Ignore for both attributes.  Highlight and Blinking each lead 
you to a menu where you can select Y to activate the attribute, N if you want 
to deactivate it, and I if you want to ignore it.  

Select N for Negating if you want to select the absence of a particular 
attribute instead of its presence.  The choices here are Yes and No.  The 
default is No, or Attribute Negating Off.  



Select Show from the Attribute menu to display your attribute settings.  


Attribute Negating (N)

This item appears in the Attribute Options menu, which appears in many places 
in Screen Power's menu system.  See the next entry, "Attribute Options," for a 
list of all the places the Attribute menu appears.  Its options are N: No and 
Y: Yes.  The default is No, which means negating is off.  Select Yes to turn 
negating on if you want Screen Power to look for the absence of a particular 
attribute or color instead of its presence.  For example, in WordPerfect, you 
may want to look for the absence of the traditional blue background in lines 1 
through 24.  Instead of setting different windows or monitors to look for red 
background, white background, highlighting, and other colors and attributes, 
you can just tell Screen Power to tell you every time the usual blue 
background screen does not occur.  


Attribute Options (A)

This item appears in many places in the Screen Power menu system.  They are 
all listed at the end of this section.  Its options are:

      F:  Foreground
      B:  Background
      H:  Highlight
      K:  Blinking
      N:  Negating
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select F if the attribute occurs in the foreground of the computer screen.  
Select B if it is a background attribute.  You can specify both a foreground 
and a background or just one.  Foreground and background selections each lead 
you to another sub-menu of all the possible color choices.  They are:

      B:  Black
      U:  Blue
      G:  Green
      C:  Cyan
      R:  Red
      M:  Magenta
      N:  Brown
      W:  White
      I:  Ignore

The default is Ignore.  

You can also select Blinking or Highlight (you can monitor both if needed).  
The defaults are Ignore for both attributes.  Highlight and


Blinking each lead you to a menu where you can select Y to activate the 
attribute, N if you want to deactivate it, and I if you want to ignore it.  

Select N for Negating if you want to select the absence of a particular 
attribute instead of its presence.  The choices here are Yes and No.  The 
default is No, or Attribute Negating Off.  

Select Show to display your attribute settings.  

The Attribute Options menu is found in eight places: the String method of 
Monitoring in Communication mode; the If Condition Menu (triggered by an "If" 
statement) in a macro in Communication and Review modes; and the Soft Cursor 
Tracking menu in both Communication and Braille modes (in Communication mode, 
it is in the Global menu; in Braille mode, it is in the Windows menu); and the 
Attribute Filter menu, which appears in the Windows menu in Communication and 
Review modes and in the Screen mode menu.  

Background Attribute (B)

This item appears in the Attribute menu.  Its options are identical to those 
in the Foreground Attributes menu.  They are:

      B:  Black
      U:  Blue
      G:  Green
      C:  Cyan
      R:  Red
      M:  Magenta
      N:  Brown
      W:  White
      I:  Ignore

The default is Ignore.  

Select one of the background attribute colors if you want to include it in 
your attribute specifications.  See the entry on "Attribute Options" for more 
information about attributes in general.  


Blank or Space Options (B)

This item pertains to speech only.  It appears in the Verbal Options sub-menu 
of the Communication mode, Review mode, and Screen mode menus (the Verbal 
Options menu in Keyboard mode is different and does not contain this item).  
Its options are:

      I:  Ignore
      S:  Say
      C:  Click
      P:  Pause
      C:  Count Options



The default is Ignore.  This item handles how Screen Power treats blank 
spaces.  (This is different from Line Blank Options in the Line menu, which 
handles how Screen Power treats blank lines.)  Select Ignore if you do not 
want Screen Power to notify you of blank spaces.  Select any of the other 
options if you want Screen Power to notify you of blank spaces.  If you select 
Say, Screen Power will say the word "space";  if you select Click, Screen 
Power will cause your computer to issue an audible click (not all synthesizers 
can do this); if you select Pause, Screen Power will pause at each space.  
When you select Count, Screen Power takes you to the Count menu.  Here you can 
select one of two Count options: Indent or All.  If you select All, Screen 
Power will tell you all spaces it encounters (if it encounters four spaces, it 
says "four spaces").  If you select Indent, it will only count the number of 
spaces in an indent at the left edge of the screen.  


Blinking Attribute (K)

This item appears only in the Attribute menu.  Its options are:

      Y:  Blinking
      N:  No Blinking
      I:  Ignore Blinking

The default is Ignore.  

Select Blinking if you want to monitor a blinking attribute or if your program 
uses a blinking character as a soft cursor.  Select No Blinking if you want to 
monitor or soft cursor track a non-blinking character.  Select Ignore Blinking 
if it doesn't matter whether the character is blinking or not.  See the entry 
on "Attribute Options" for more information about attributes in general.  


Boundary Options (B)

This item is in all the Windows and Monitors menus (in Communication, Review, 
and Braille modes) and in the Screen mode menu.  It is also in the Field Name 
and Data menus in the File Options menu (a Global option), and in the Silent 
Windows menu (in Screen mode).  Its options are:

      E:  Entire Screen
      L:  Left Column
      T:  Top Row
      R:  Right Column
      B:  Bottom Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select E to set the current window, monitor, or form processing field to be 
the entire screen area.  Use the other four options, Left Column, Top


Row, Right Column, and Bottom Row, to set the four corners of your rectangular 
window, monitor, or form processing area.  The defaults are all "Undefined" 
until you set boundaries.  You must set boundaries for your window, monitor, 
or form field if you want it to be something other than the full screen.  The 
Show selection displays the boundaries of the current window or monitor.  

Note: A valuable shortcut for setting boundaries is to first select the entire 
      screen.  This sets boundaries of row 1, column 1 to row 25, column 80.  
      Then you only need to change the boundaries that differ from the entire 
      screen boundaries.  

This menu (and concept) differs from the Location Menu.  Use the Boundary menu 
when you need to set a rectangular screen area, which can be as large as the 
entire screen.  Use the Location menu when you need to set a precise point on 
the screen, which is always just one character in size.  

The F2 key in the Boundary menu allows you to set boundaries via cursor 
positioning in your application screen.  After you press F2, Screen Power 
displays a freeze-frame of your last active screen.  Move the cursor to the 
desired location, then press CTRL-HOME to set the top left corner and CTRL-END 
to set the bottom right corner.  You can also press T, B, L, and R within the 
F2 screen to set the top, bottom, left, and right boundaries. Use CTRL-LEFT 
ARROW to move the F2 cursor to the left edge of the current line.  Use 
CTRL-RIGHT ARROW to move the F2 cursor to the right edge of the current line.  
Press ENTER to confirm your selection.  Press ESC to abort at any time.  


Braille Display Location Options (B)

This item is in the Braille Display Options menu from the Braille Options 
menu.  This is equivalent to the Gateway "Show Window Position" command, CHORD 
(w).  Its options are S: Show and H: Hide.  The default is Hide.  This command 
uses the first four cells to display the position of the first cell of the 
refreshable braille display.  The first two cells contain the line position; 
the last two cells contain the column position.  Numbers begin with line 1, 
column 1.  For example, the first possible position on the screen, line 1 
column 1, will be displayed as 0101.  The last possible braille display 
position on the screen, line 25 column 41 (on a 40-cell braille display), will 
be displayed as 2541.  These numbers will be in computer braille, that is, 
they will be in the lower two-thirds of the cell.  


Braille Display Options (D)

This item is in the Braille Options menu.  Use this menu item to configure 
aspects of the refreshable braille display. You can customize such things as 
how and where the system cursor is displayed in braille;


whether or not you use dots 7 and 8 of the 8-dot braille display;, and how 
upper case, control, and graphics characters are displayed.  The Braille 
Display Options offers the following selections: 

      L:  Link Display with Cursor Options
      8:  8/6-dot Display Options
      R:  Right Cells Past Right Edge Options
      K:  Skip Blank Area Options
      P:  Cursor Position Options
      I:  Display Cursor Options
      C:  Cursor Location Options
      W:  Braille Display Location Options
      W:  Display Width
      H:  Character Display Options
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Each of the above menu items has an entry in this Reference Guide.  See each 
individual entry for more information.  


Braille Dot Tables File Options (B)

This item is in the File Options menu of the Global Options menu.  Menu 
selections are L: Load and S: Save.  Braille Dot Tables are the ASCII 
characters that each braille character represents.  The default is the 
American braille code.  Other braille dot tables exist, such as French braille 
and Hebrew braille.  In addition, you can load a customized braille dot table 
if you have one.  

Select S to save a braille dot table.  Screen Power prompts you to enter a 
filename.  Don't worry about the file extension-Screen Power provides it for 
you.  All braille dot table are given the extension .BDT.


Braille Hardware Options (H)

This item is in the Braille Options menu.  It includes two sub-menus.  These 
options set several aspects of the braille display hardware.  The menu 
selections are:  

      K:  Key Panel Options
      V:  Vibration Options
      S:  Show
      QQ: Quit

Use the Key Panel options to change the repeat rate and repeat delay of 
braille display's panel keys.  The repeat rate is how many times each key can 
repeat per second.  The default is 3, which represents 30 times per second.  A 
rate of 10 would be 100 times per second.  The repeat delay is how long you 
can hold down a front panel key before the repetitions begin.  The default is 
7, which represents 7 hundredths of a


second.  A rate of 10 would be 10 hundredths (or one tenth) of a second.  
These commands are the equivalent of the Gateway "Panel Repetitions" start-up 
option, /PANELREP followed by two numbers (one for repeat rate, the other for 
repeat delay).  Refer to the "Key Panel Options" entry in this Reference Guide 
for more information.  

Vibration Options tell Screen Power whether to enable or disable vibrating 
dots.  See the "Vibration Options" entry for more information.


Braille Keyboard Hotkeys (H)

This item is in the Braille Keyboard Options menu of the Braille Options menu. 
It contains the following menu selections:

      A:  Add
      D:  Delete
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Braille keyboard hotkeys are brailled, chord commands that duplicate one of 
the menu or navigation functions.  For example, you can set a braille hotkey 
to disable the braille keyboard (and you can set a QWERTY hotkey to enable the 
braille keyboard).  Or you can set a braille hotkey as a toggle to show the 
cursor position in the last four cells, instead of using the menu system 
commands to go down to that third-level menu to activate it.  

Note: All braille keyboard commands are chorded, that is, you must press the 
      SPACEBAR while pressing the appropriate dots.  

There are three types of braille keyboard hotkeys.  The most straightforward 
is the Function type.  This is a hotkey that executes a Screen Power function.  
An example of this is dot 4, which is a hotkey to execute the Screen Power 
function "Enter menu mode."  In other words, press dot 4 + SPACEBAR to enter 
Screen Power's menu mode from the braille keyboard.  

The second type of hotkey is the Key type.  This is a braille keyboard hotkey 
that duplicates a QWERTY keystroke command.  An example of this is chorded 
dots 134, which is a hotkey to execute the QWERTY ENTER key.  

The third type of hotkey is the Sticky Key type.  This is a braille chorded 
hotkey that duplicates the computer's ALT, CTRL, SHIFT, or CAPS LOCK key by 
itself.  An example of this is dots 1346, which is a hotkey to execute the 
QWERTY CTRL key.  This is a "sticky CONTROL," that is, if you want to give a 
CTRL-V, you first execute the 1346 CTRL key (with the SPACEBAR), then braille 
the letter V (dots 1236).  The 1346 CTRL key "sticks" until you braille the V.



Note: For more information about hotkeys in general, refer to the "Hotkeys" 
      entry in this Reference Guide.

To define any of the three types of braille hotkey, first choose A for Add.  
You will be prompted to enter braille dots 1 through 8 for your hotkey.  Enter 
these dots by typing their dot numbers on the computer keyboard without 
spaces, commas, dashes, or any other dividers.  Note that you do not press the 
dots on the computer keyboard here.  You cannot directly enter the braille 
dots themselves.  You must instead type the QWERTY number key that represents 
each dot individually.  For example, to assign a hotkey to a braille letter C, 
which uses dots 1 and 3, you must enter the numbers 1 and 3, the 1 above the 
letter Q and the 3 above the letter E.

After you enter the dot numbers, Screen Power presents you with a menu with 
the following selections:

      K:  Key
      S:  Sticky Key
      F:  Function

This is the menu from which you select one of the three types of hotkey.  To 
set a hotkey to execute a function, select F for Function.  To set a hotkey to 
duplicate a QWERTY key combination, select K for Key.  To set a hotkey to 
duplicate the ALT, CTRL, SHIFT, or CAPS LOCK key by itself (functioning as a 
sticky key), select S for Sticky Key.  


Function Menu

When you select F for Function, Screen Power takes you to the Select Function 
screen.  Here you can select from over 1400 Screen Power functions (including 
functions for 100 each of windows, monitors, place markers, and macros in 
various modes), such as Link/Unlink Display with Cursor, Enable/Disable Grade 
2 Braille, Go to Place Marker, Enable Monitor, Execute Macro, and many others.  
Braille hotkeys are not restricted to braille functions.  For example, you can 
set a braille hotkey for the function "Say Attribute and ASCII of Current 
Character."

You can use the F2 key to search for and select your hotkey function.  Press 
the F2 key and then enter a word, words, or partial word from the function you 
want.  Screen Power will take you to the first occurrence of that word in its 
function list.  It is usually sufficient to type the first word to find your 
function.  You can press the TAB key to go to the next occurrence of the text 
string; press SHIFT-TAB to go to the previous occurrence.  Press ENTER to 
select the function.  Press ESC to abort at any time.  See the "Search" entry 
in this Reference Guide for more information about using the F2 key.  

When you have selected the function with the ENTER key, Screen Power takes you 
back to the Hotkey menu.  




Key Menu

When you select K for Key, Screen Power takes you to the Special Key menu.  
Use the Special Key menu to select which "special key" you will use, that is, 
CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, or a combination of those keys.  The special key selections 
are:

      1:  Alt
      2:  Control
      3:  Shift
      4:  Alt-Control
      5:  Alt-Shift
      6:  Control-Shift
      7:  None

With these special keys to use along with many of the QWERTY keys, you have a 
virtually unlimited supply of hotkeys to define and use.  

After you select which special key to use, Screen Power prompts you to enter a 
key.  This is the key you will press along with the special key you just 
selected.  If you want the hotkey to be CTRL-ALT-I, choose 4 from the Special 
Key menu, then enter the letter I.  Screen Power then takes you back to the 
Hotkey menu.  Remember that when you set this type of hotkey, you are setting 
a QWERTY key alone or with a special key to execute a QWERTY (application 
program or DOS) command.  


Sticky Key Menu

When you select S for Sticky Key, Screen Power takes you to the Sticky Key 
menu.  Here you select the key you want to use as a sticky key.  The Sticky 
Key menu is:

      S:  Shift
      C:  Control
      A:  Alt
      P:  Caps Lock

Select the Sticky Key that the braille dots will duplicate.  When you chord 
this braille keyboard command, it executes only the SHIFT, CTRL, ALT, or CAPS 
LOCK key, then waits for you to braille another key to give a command.  This 
menu differs from the Special Key menu above in that the Special Key menu only 
handles special keys plus a QWERTY key; the Sticky Key menu handles special 
keys by themselves.  The advantage of this is that you don't need to remember 
dozens of Screen Power CTRL-key or ALT-key hotkeys for each application 
command.  Just chord the CTRL (or ALT or SHIFT) key, then whichever key you 
need to execute the application command.  All you need to remember is the 
chorded braille command for the CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT keys.  The same applies 
with the CAPS LOCK key: you do not need to remember where on the computer 
keyboard this key is located, and you do not


need to remove your hands from the braille keyboard.  All you need to remember 
is the chorded braille command for the CAPS LOCK key.  


Other Braille Hotkey Selections

Select S for Show to step through all the hotkeys and their functions.  Select 
D to Delete a hotkey.  Screen Power will bring up a Status screen that 
displays the active braille hotkeys.  Step through them using the DOWN ARROW 
(or SPACEBAR), UP ARROW (or BACKSPACE), HOME, and END keys.  When you come to 
the one you want to delete, press the ENTER key.  

You can use F2 in the Hotkey Show and Delete menus to search for a hotkey 
assignment.  From within Show or Delete, press F2.  Screen Power will first 
need a special key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, or a combination), so it will display 
the Special Key menu.  Press a number from 1 to 7 to correspond to one of the 
seven special key selections.  Screen Power displays the "enter key" screen.  
Press the key to search for.  Screen Power will take you to that key and read 
the function assigned to it.  

For example, if you want to delete the hotkey you think you have assigned as 
CTRL-SHIFT-K, you can use F2 to search for the hotkey.  After you choose 
Delete in the Hotkey menu, press F2.  Screen Power takes you to the Special 
Key menu.  Since you are looking for a hotkey assignment that uses the 
CTRL-SHIFT key combination, enter the number 6 at the Special Key menu.  Next 
press the K key in response to the Edit screen's "enter key" prompt.  Unless 
you have changed the default hotkey assignment, Screen Power will tell you 
that the function assigned to this hotkey is "say and spell current word" in 
Communication mode.  You can now select to delete the key (by pressing ENTER) 
or abort the delete process (by pressing ESCape).

For more information about hotkeys, including a definition and more examples, 
please refer to the "Hotkeys" entry in this Reference Guide.  You can also 
refer to the "Hotkeys" sections in Chapter 2 of the User Guide.  


Braille Keyboard Options (K)

This item is in the Braille Options menu.  It has several menu items, 
including two sub-menus.  The menu items are:  

      E:  Enable Braille Keyboard
      D:  Disable Braille Keyboard
      H:  Braille Keyboard Hotkeys
      R:  Braille Keyboard Row Options
      M:  BrailleMate Keyboard Hotkeys
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit


      
When you choose E to enable the braille keyboard (the default is Disabled), 
Screen Power turns the computer QWERTY keyboard into a braille keyboard.  This 
is equivalent to the Gateway command to switch to braille keyboard mode, CAPS 
LOCK-ALT (or LEFT ALT-RIGHT ALT).  In this mode, you braille text into the 
computer.  In standard format, the F key represents dot 1, D is dot 2, and S 
is dot 3.  In the right hand, J is dot 4, K is dot 5, and L is dot 6.  In 
addition, A is dot 7 and ; (semicolon) is dot 8.  The SPACEBAR is still a 
SPACEBAR, and is also used to chord commands.  None of the other alphabetical 
keys are active.  Function keys, numerical keys, and cursor keys are still 
active, though.  For example, if you press the F key (dot 1), you will put an 
"a" in your word processor.  If you want to enter an F, you must enter it in 
braille by pressing the F, D, and J keys for dots 1,2,4.  

Remember that you will be using ASCII braille, sometimes called computer 
braille, in this mode.  Some of the punctuation marks are different from 
standard Grade 1 braille, and you enter numbers in Nemeth Code (i.e., lowered 
numbers). 

When you are in Screen Power's menu system with the braille keyboard enabled, 
you can only give braille input.  Make Screen Power menu selections with 
brailled commands on the computer keyboard (or front panel hotkeys).  CTRL 
commands, such as CTRL-Q to exit the menu system, must also be brailled.  To 
braille a CTRL command, first press the CTRL key, then release it, then 
braille a Q.  This is known as a "sticky CONTROL."  You can also use the 
Braille Keyboard Hotkeys menu to set hotkeys for application and Screen Power 
functions.

You can change the row used for the braille keys.  If you prefer to use the 
bottom or top row instead of the middle row, use the R: Braille Keyboard Row 
Options to change.  The options there are T: Top, M: Middle, and B: Bottom 
rows.  The default is Middle.  

You can also set braille hotkeys and BrailleMate hotkeys from this menu.  
Select H for Braille Keyboard Hotkeys.  Select M for BrailleMate Keyboard 
Hotkeys.  Braille and BrailleMate hotkeys are always chorded.  About 30 
hotkeys have been pre-set for you.  Many of them mimic Gateway commands.  For 
details about adding and deleting BrailleMate and braille hotkeys, see the 
"BrailleMate Keyboard Hotkeys" and "Braille Keyboard Hotkeys" entries in this 
Menu Reference Guide.


Braille Keyboard Row Options (R)

This item is in the Braille Keyboard Options menu.  Use this item to tell 
Screen Power which row of the computer keyboard you want to use as a braille 
keyboard.  It has three options:



      T:  Top Row
      M:  Middle Row
      B:  Bottom Row

The default is Middle Row, where most keyboards have tactile indicators for 
positioning your fingers.  If you select Middle Row, dots 1 and 4 are the F 
and J keys.  If you select Top Row, dots 1 and 4 are the R and U keys.  If you 
select Bottom Row, dots 1 and 4 are the V and M keys.


BrailleMate Keyboard Hotkeys (M)

This item is in the Braille Keyboard Options menu of the Braille Options menu.  
It contains the following menu selections:

      A:  Add
      D:  Delete
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Use this type of hotkey if you have TeleSensory's BrailleMate connected to 
your Power Braille 40 (or Navigator).  You can then use BrailleMate as an 
input device for your computer.  You can add and delete BrailleMate hotkeys 
without having a BrailleMate connected.  

Note: All Braille Keyboard hotkeys and BrailleMate hotkeys are shared.  This 
      means you can use either menu to add and delete the hotkeys for both 
      input devices.

BrailleMate keyboard hotkeys are brailled, chord commands on BrailleMate that 
duplicate a computer key or command or one of Screen Power's functions.  For 
example, you can set a BrailleMate hotkey to enter Screen Power's menu system 
or to toggle between linking and unlinking the braille display from the 
computer cursor.

Note: All BrailleMate hotkey are chorded, that is, press the SPACEBAR while 
      pressing the dots.  

There are three types of BrailleMate keyboard hotkeys.  The most 
straightforward is the Function type.  This is a hotkey that executes a Screen 
Power function.  An example of this is dot 4, which is a hotkey to execute the 
Screen Power function "Enter menu mode."  In other words, press dot 4 + 
SPACEBAR to enter Screen Power's menu mode from the BrailleMate keyboard.  

The second type of BrailleMate hotkey is the Key type.  This duplicates a 
QWERTY keystroke command.  An example of this is chord dots 134, which is a 
hotkey to execute the QWERTY ENTER key.  

The third type is the Sticky Key type.  This hotkey duplicates the computer's 
ALT, CTRL, SHIFT, or CAPS LOCK key by itself.  An example of this is dots 
1346, which is a hotkey to execute the QWERTY


CTRL key.  This is a "sticky CONTROL," that is, if you want to give a CTRL-V, 
you first execute the 1346 CTRL key on BrailleMate (with the SPACEBAR), then 
braille the letter V (dots 1236).  The 1346 CTRL key "sticks" until you 
braille the V.

Note: For more information about hotkeys in general, refer to the "Hotkeys" 
      entry in this Reference Guide.

To define any of the three types of BrailleMate hotkey, first choose A for 
Add.  You will be prompted to enter braille dots 1 through 8 for your hotkey.  
There are two ways to do this.  You can braille the dot numbers on the 
BrailleMate keyboard in lowered numbers.  For example, to assign a hotkey to a 
braille letter C, which uses dots 1 and 3, enter the lowered numbers 1 and 3 
on the BrailleMate keyboard, a dot 2 for the number 1 and dots 2 and 5 for the 
number 3.  

The other method is the method used in setting Braille Keyboard hotkeys.  
Enter these dots by typing their dot numbers on the computer keyboard without 
spaces, commas, dashes, or any other dividers.  Note that you do not press the 
dots on the computer keyboard here.  You cannot directly enter the braille 
dots themselves.  You must instead type the QWERTY number key that represents 
each dot individually.  For example, to assign a hotkey to a braille letter C, 
you must enter the numbers 1 and 3, the 1 above the letter Q and the 3 above 
the letter E.

Screen Power then takes you to the BrailleMate Hotkey Add menu, which has 
seven choices:

      1:  Left Shift
      2:  Spacebar
      3:  Right Shift
      4:  Left and Right Shift
      5:  Left Shift and Spacebar
      6:  Right Shift and Spacebar
      7:  Left, Right, and Spacebar

After you select one of these BrailleMate key combinations, Screen Power 
presents you with another menu with the following selections:

      K:  Key
      S:  Sticky Key
      F:  Function

This is the menu from which you select one of the three types of hotkey. 
Note: From this menu on, the BrailleMate Hotkey processes and selections are 
      identical to the Braille Keyboard Hotkey processes and selections.  The 
      text below is also identical to the text in this Reference Guide under 
      "Braille Keyboard Hotkeys."

To set a hotkey to execute a Screen Power function, select F for Function.  To 
set a hotkey to duplicate a QWERTY key combination,


select K for Key.  To set a hotkey to duplicate the ALT, CTRL, SHIFT, or CAPS 
LOCK key by itself (functioning as a sticky key), select S for Sticky Key.  


Function Menu

When you select F for Function, Screen Power takes you to the Select Function 
screen.  Here you can select from over 1400 Screen Power functions (including 
functions for 100 each of windows, monitors, place markers, and macros in 
various modes), such as Link/Unlink Display with Cursor, Enable/Disable Grade 
2 Braille, Go to Place Marker, Enable Monitor, Execute Macro, and many others.  
BrailleMate hotkeys are not restricted to braille functions.  For example, you 
can set a braille hotkey for the function "Say Attribute and ASCII of Current 
Character."

You can use the F2 key to search for and select your hotkey function.  Press 
the F2 key and then enter a word, words, or partial word from the function you 
want.  Screen Power will take you to the first occurrence of that word in its 
function list.  It is usually sufficient to type the first word to find your 
function.  You can press the TAB key to go to the next occurrence of the text 
string; press SHIFT-TAB to go to the previous occurrence.  Press ENTER to 
select the function.  Press ESC to abort at any time.  See the "Search" entry 
in this Reference Guide for more information about using the F2 key.  

When you have selected the function with the ENTER key, Screen Power takes you 
back to the Hotkey menu.  


Key Menu

When you select K for Key, Screen Power takes you to the Special Key menu.  
Use the Special Key menu to select which "special key" you will use, that is, 
CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, or a combination of those keys.  The special key selections 
are:

      1:  Alt
      2:  Control
      3:  Shift
      4:  Alt-Control
      5:  Alt-Shift
      6:  Control-Shift
      7:  None

After you select which special key your BrailleMate hotkey will duplicate, 
Screen Power prompts you to enter a key.  This is the key the BrailleMate 
hotkey duplicates, along with the special key you just selected.  If you want 
the hotkey to be CTRL-ALT-I, choose 4 from the Special Key menu, then enter 
the letter I.  That means the BrailleMate dots you selected will duplicate the 
QWERTY key combination CTRL-ALT-I.  



Screen Power next takes you back to the Hotkey menu.  Remember that when you 
set this type of hotkey, you are setting a BrailleMate key to execute a QWERTY 
(application program or DOS) command.  


Sticky Key Menu

When you select S for Sticky Key, Screen Power takes you to the Sticky Key 
menu.  Here you select the key you want to use as a sticky key.  The Sticky 
Key menu is:

      S:  Shift
      C:  Control
      A:  Alt
      P:  Caps Lock

Select the Sticky Key that the braille dots will duplicate.  When you chord 
this BrailleMate keyboard command, it executes only the SHIFT, CTRL, ALT, or 
CAPS LOCK key, then waits for you to braille another key to give a command.  
This menu differs from the Special Key menu above in that the Special Key menu 
only handles special keys plus a QWERTY key; the Sticky Key menu handles 
special keys by themselves.  The advantage of this is that you don't need to 
remember dozens of Screen Power CTRL-key or ALT-key hotkeys for each 
application command.  Just chord the CTRL (or ALT or SHIFT) key, then 
whichever key you need to execute the application command.  All you need to 
remember is the BrailleMate chord command for the CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT keys.  
The same applies with the CAPS LOCK key: you do not need to remember where on 
the computer keyboard this key is located, and you do not need to remove your 
hands from the braille keyboard.  All you need to remember is the BrailleMate 
chord command for the CAPS LOCK key.  


Other BrailleMate Hotkey Selections

Select S for Show to step through all the hotkeys and their functions.  Select 
D to Delete a hotkey.  Screen Power will bring up a Status screen that 
displays the active BrailleMate hotkeys.  Step through them using the DOWN 
ARROW (or SPACEBAR), UP ARROW (or BACKSPACE), HOME, and END keys.  When you 
come to the one you want to delete, press the ENTER key.  

You can use F2 in the Hotkey Show or Delete menus to search for a hotkey 
assignment.  From within Show or Delete, press F2.  Screen Power will first 
need a special key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, or a combination), so it will display 
the Special Key menu.  Press a number from 1 to 7 to correspond to one of the 
seven special key selections.  Screen Power displays the "enter key" screen.  
Press the key to search for.  Screen Power will take you to that key and read 
the function assigned to it.  



For example, if you want to delete the hotkey you think you have assigned as 
CTRL-SHIFT-K, you can use F2 to search for the hotkey.  After you choose 
Delete in the Hotkey menu, press F2.  Screen Power takes you to the Special 
Key menu.  Since you are looking for a hotkey assignment that uses the 
CTRL-SHIFT key combination, enter the number 6 at the Special Key menu.  Next 
press the K key in response to the Edit screen's "enter key" prompt.  Unless 
you have changed the default hotkey assignment, Screen Power will tell you 
that the function assigned to this hotkey is "say and spell current word" in 
Communication mode.  You can now select to delete the key (by pressing ENTER) 
or abort the delete process (by pressing ESCape).

For more information about hotkeys, including a definition and more examples, 
please refer to the "Hotkeys" entry in this Reference Guide.  You can also 
refer to the "Hotkeys" sections in Chapter 2 of the User Guide.  


Braille Options (B)

This item is in the Screen Power Main Menu.  There are many Braille Options 
you can set.  The Braille Options sub-menu offers the following selections:

      A:  Set Active Window
      W:  Windows
      M:  Place Markers
      D:  Braille Display Options
      K:  Braille Keyboard Options
      P:  Panel Keys Hotkeys
      G:  Grade 2 Braille Display Options
      F:  Feedback Options
      I:  Interrupt Display Options
      H:  Braille Hardware Options
      Q:  Quit

The Windows selection allows you to define braille windows and active window 
so that the braille display can focus on one area of the screen, often 
separately from the speech output.  Use Place Markers to set up to 100 
specific row-and-column locations on the screen for later reference.  See the 
entries in this Reference Guide on "Set Active Window," "Windows," and "Place 
Markers" for more information on each of these items.  (Note that the "Place 
Markers" selection is activated by the letter "M" in this menu; in Review 
mode, it is activated by the letter "P."  This is because the letter "P" is 
used in this menu to activate the "Panel Key Options" selection.)  

The rest of the selections allow you to customize many aspects of Screen 
Power's braille processing, including how upper case characters, graphics 
characters, and others are displayed on the refreshable braille


display (Power Braille 40 or Navigator); how and where the system cursor is 
displayed; what functions are activated from the braille display's panel keys; 
whether your braille display is in Grade 2 or not, or 6- or 8-dot braille; and 
many other options.  Many options are similar to Navigator's Gateway software 
options; others are new and unique.  

Braille Display Options are all concerned with aspects of your braille 
display, such as using 6-dot or 8-dot braille, how the cursor is represented, 
where the cursor is represented, how the display moves, and how upper case, 
control, and graphics characters are represented.  Braille Keyboard Options 
are all concerned with using braille for inputting text rather than using the 
standard QWERTY keyboard.  Use Panel Key Options to set hotkey functions for 
the panel keys on your braille display.

Use Grade 2 Braille Display Options to configure how and whether you use Grade 
2 braille.  Use Feedback Options to enable or disable warning tones and the 
visual bar that Screen Power displays on the computer screen to indicate the 
position of the braille display.  

Interrupt Display Options and Braille Hardware Options are both find-tuning 
aspects that most users will not need to deal with.  

Each of these menu items has an entry in this Reference Guide.  See each 
individual entry for more information, including default settings.


Capital Letter Options (C)

This item pertains to speech only.  It controls how capital letters are 
verbalized (braille display of capital letters is controlled through the 
"Upper Case Letter Options" selection in the Braille Display menu).  This item 
appears in the Verbal Options sub-menu of the Communication mode, Review mode, 
Screen mode, and Keyboard mode menus.  Its options in Communication, Review, 
and Screen mode are:

      I:  Ignore
      S:  Say
      P:  Pitch
      T:  Tone
      V:  Volume

The default is Ignore.  In Keyboard mode, the options are I: Ignore and S: 
Say.  The default is Ignore.  This item handles how Screen Power treats 
capital letters.  Select Ignore if you do not want Screen Power to notify you 
of capital letters.  Select any of the other options if you want Screen Power 
to notify you of capital letters.  If you select Say, Screen Power will say 
the word "cap."  If the whole word is capitalized, it will say "all cap."  If 
you select Pitch, Screen Power will speak the capital letter in a higher 
pitch.  If you select Tone, Screen Power will beep, or sound a tone for 
capital letters.  If the whole word is capitalized, you


will hear a double tone preceding the word.  If you select Volume, Screen 
Power will say capital letters in a louder volume than the rest of the text.


Character Attribute Options (A)

This item pertains to braille only.  It is in the Character Display Options 
sub-menu from the Braille Display Options menu from the Braille Options menu.   
This is equivalent to the Gateway "Display Attributes" command, CHORD (k).  
Its options are S: Show and H: Hide.  The default is Hide.  This command shows 
the attribute assigned to a character.  When it is set to Show, the braille 
display shows a letter representing the character's attribute instead of 
showing the character itself.  Following is a list of letters and 
corresponding attributes:  

      N   Normal white on black
      I   Inverse (black character on any color background)
      C   Color letter or color background
      B   Blinking character
      H   Highlighted character
      F   Flashing character (blinking and highlighted)

This is a particularly good item to set to a hotkey (refer to the entry on 
"Hotkeys" in this Reference Guide for more information on setting and using 
hotkeys).  


Character Display Options (H)

This item pertains to braille only.  It appears in the Braille Display Options 
menu from the Braille Options menu.  This item has its own menu choices.  They 
are:

      U:  Upper Case Letter Options
      C:  Control Character Braille Options
      A:  Character Attribute Options
      G:  Graphic Character Braille Options

From this menu you can select whether or not you want to identify upper case 
letters, control characters, graphics characters, and video attributes such as 
inverse, blinking, highlight, or various colors on the braille display.  Each 
of the four menu selections has its own entry in this Reference Guide.  Refer 
to them for more information.  


Comment (C)

You can write comment strings for place markers, windows, monitors, and 
macros.  All comment strings can be up to 20 characters in length.  The 
"Comment" option is in the menu for each of the above items.  It is always 
activated with the letter "C".  Since these four features perform complex 
tasks that are usually tied to a specific part of a specific


application, it is often helpful to enter a comment string so that you can 
easily remember the purpose of your settings.


Communication Options (C)

This item is in the Screen Power Main Menu.  Its options are:

      A:  Set Active Window
      V:  Verbal Options
      S:  Speech Options
      L:  Line Options
      W:  Windows
      O:  Monitors
      H:  Hotkeys
      M:  Macros
      Q:  Quit

Communication mode is the heart of Screen Power's speech output, and the 
source of its flexibility and effectiveness.  Most of the time, you will be 
using Screen Power in Communication mode.  You could call this "live action 
mode."  Communication mode controls verbalization of your work, both input and 
output.  In this mode, you can enter text and execute Screen Power commands 
through hotkeys and macros.  The braille display also follows the 
verbalization, except when you "tell" it do something else.  Screen Power has 
several other modes.  See the entry on "Modes" for a description of each.  

Use this menu to set hotkeys, windows, monitors, and macros.  You can set 100 
of each of windows, monitors, and macros.  You can set a hotkey for any Screen 
Power function you want.  These items will streamline your use of your 
application programs.  All hotkeys, windows, monitors, and macros are saved in 
environment files (accessed through the File Options sub-menu in the Global 
menu).  See the individual entries on "Hotkeys," "Windows," "Monitors," and 
"Macros" for complete information on these topics.  

You can customize many aspects of Screen Power's operation and feedback via 
the Verbal Options, Speech Options, and Line Options menus.  Verbal Options 
include Text Options, Capital Letter Options, Number Options, Punctuation 
Options, Graphic Character Options, Dictionary Options, and others.  See the 
"Verbal Options" entry for more information about these items.  Verbal Options 
are saved in environment files.  

Speech Options are the traditional speech settings: Rate, Pitch, Volume, and 
Voice.  These items are saved in an a configuration file (also accessible 
through the File Options sub-menu in the Global menu).  Line Options include 
Line Pause Options, Line Number Options, and Line Blank Options.  Line Options 
are saved in environment files.  See the


"Speech Options" and "Line Options" entries for more information about these 
items.


Configuration File

The configuration file consists of all the speech settings (rate, pitch, 
volume, and voice) and braille settings for Screen Power Integrated.  The 
braille settings saved in the configuration file includes all the options you 
can set in the Braille Options menu except Display Width, Braille Hotkeys, 
BrailleMate Hotkeys, and Panel Key Hotkeys (these are saved in environment 
files).  

Configuration file settings are typically options you choose when you first 
set up your Screen Power system.  They are not options you would change with 
each application.  Therefore, they are saved in a file that is automatically 
loaded when you run Screen Power each day.  This file is named SPI.CFG.  There 
is only one configuration file.  See the "Default Configuration File Options" 
entry in this Reference Guide for more information.  

The configuration file is different an environment file, which consists of all 
your windows, monitors, hotkeys, place markers, macros, verbal options, 
pronunciation dictionary entries, and several other items.  You can save as 
many environment files as you want.  Many people will create a different 
environment file for each application program.  See the "Environment File 
Options" and "Default Environment File Options" entries in this document for 
more information.  


Control Character Braille Options (C)

This item pertains to braille only.  It controls how the braille display 
indicates control characters (a separate item, "Control Character Options" in 
the Verbal Options menus, controls how speech indicates control characters).  

This item is in the Character Display Options sub-menu from the Braille 
Display Options menu from the Braille Options menu.   It is equivalent to the 
Gateway "Control Codes On" command, CHORD (DEL).  Its options are S: Show and 
H: Hide.  The default is Hide.  

Control characters are all ASCII characters from 0 through 31.  This includes 
the ASCII representation for CTRL-A through CTRL-Z and several control 
characters involving punctuation.  

Note: This option does not control display of control characters represented 
      on the screen as an "up caret" symbol followed by the letter or 
      punctuation, such as .  It only controls display of the single-character 
      representation of the ASCII value, such as   (the heart symbol), which 
      is the single-character representation of CTRL-C, ASCII value 3.  



If you choose Hide and you are using 6-dot braille, control characters are 
represented by dots 3 and 6.  (Some upper-ASCII graphics characters are also 
represented by dots 3 and 6.  See the entry on "Graphic Character Braille 
Options" for more information.)  If you choose Show and you are using 6-dot 
braille, control characters appear as a letter representing the control codes.  
For example, CTRL-C will be represented by a braille letter "c" (without the 
quotes).  

If you are using 8-dot braille, control characters will be indicated by dots 7 
and 8 and the letter representing the control character, regardless of whether 
you select Show or Hide.  For example, CTRL-C will be represented by a braille 
letter "c" along with dots 7 and 8.  In other words, you can't Hide control 
characters in 8-dot mode.  


Control Character Options (C)

This item pertains to speech only.  It controls how speech indicates control 
characters (a separate item, "Control Character Braille Options" in the 
Character Display Options sub-menu from the Braille Display Options menu, 
controls how the braille display indicates control characters).  

This item is in the Verbal Options sub-menu in the Communication mode, Review 
mode, Screen mode, and Keyboard mode menus.  Its options in Communication, 
Review, and Screen mode are I: Ignore, S: Say, and A: ASCII.  The default is 
Ignore.  In Keyboard mode, the options are S: Say and A: ASCII.  If you choose 
Ignore, Screen Power will not read control characters.  It will say "up caret" 
at the control indicator.  If you choose Say, Screen Power will say the word 
"control" followed by the character.  If you choose ASCII, Screen Power will 
read the ASCII value of the control character.


Count Options (C)

This item pertains to speech only.  It controls how Screen Power counts spaces 
on the screen.  It is in the Verbal Options sub-menu in the Communication, 
Review, and Keyboard mode menus.  Its options are I: Indent, and A: All.  The 
default is All.  If you select All, Screen Power will tell you all spaces it 
encounters (if it encounters four spaces, it says "four spaces").  If you 
select Indent, it will only count the number of spaces in an indent at the 
left edge of the screen.  


Cursor Location Options (C)

This item pertains to braille only.  It is in the Braille Display Options menu 
from the Braille Options menu.  This is equivalent to the Gateway "Show Cursor 
Position" command, CHORD (c).  Its options are S: Show and H: Hide.  The 
default is Hide.  This command uses the last four cells of the refreshable 
braille display to show the cursor line and


column position.  The first two cells contain the line position; the last two 
cells contain the column position.  Numbers begin with line 1, column 1.  For 
example, the upper left corner of the screen, line 1, column 1, will be 
displayed as 0101.  The bottom right corner of the screen, line 25 column 80, 
will be displayed as 2580.  These numbers will be in computer braille, that 
is, they will be in the lower two-thirds of the cell.  


Cursor Position Options (P)

This item pertains to braille only.  It is in the Braille Display Options menu 
from the Braille Options menu.  Its options are L: Fixed from Left, R: Fixed 
from Right, and F: Floating.  

This command determines the location of the cursor on the braille display.  
When you choose Left or Right, Screen Power prompts you to enter a number.  
The maximum is the number of cells in your braille display.  The default is 
fixed 32 from left.  This means that the cursor will stop advancing to the 
right when it reaches the 32nd braille cell from the left (on a 40-cell 
display).  At that point, instead of the cursor moving to the right, the text 
begins scrolling to the left and the cursor stays put.  As you type on the 
computer keyboard, the braille display scrolls, leaving the cursor on the 32nd 
cell from the left if at all possible.  These two options are equivalent to 
the Gateway "Cursor Position" command line option /CPOS and the command CHORD 
(5) followed by an L or an R, then a letter.

When you select Floating cursor, the braille display usually stays put while 
the cursor moves.  The only time the cursor forces the braille display to move 
is when it reaches the right (or left) edge of the braille display.  For 
example, if you start typing with the cursor and your 40-cell braille display 
at the left edge of the screen, the display shows columns 1 through 40.  The 
display doesn't move until the cursor passes the 40th screen position.  At the 
41st column across the screen, the entire braille display flips to show you 
columns 41 through 80 of the computer screen.  Then the braille display stays 
put while the cursor moves until it reaches column 80 on the computer screen.  
If you are moving from right to left, the display flips when you move from 
column position 41 (where it still shows columns 41 through 80) to 40 (where 
it will show columns 1 through 40).  This setting is equivalent to the Gateway 
/SCROLOFF start-up option.


Cursor Type Options (T)

This items pertains to braille only.  It appears in the Display Cursor menu, 
which is in the Braille Display Options menu.  Use this item to tell Screen 
Power how you want the cursor to be indicated on the braille display.  For 
example, you can use dots 7 and 8 of the 8-dot display for


the cursor.  Another common cursor indicator is to have all dots raised.  Four 
options exist.  They are:

      1:  All Dots Up
      2:  Dot 8 Up and Vibrating
      3:  All Dots Up and Dot 2 Vibrating
      4:  Dots 7 and 8 Up

Choose option 1 if you want All Dots Up on your braille display to represent 
the computer cursor.  Choose option 2 if you want the cursor to be represented 
by Dot 8 Up and Vibrating.  Choose option 3 if you want All Dots Up and Dot 2 
Vibrating.  Choose option 4 to have the cursor represented by Dots 7 and 8 Up.  
Option 4 is the default.  

Note: You do not need to use 8-dot braille to have the cursor indicated by 
      dots 7 and 8 or by dot 8 up and vibrating.  The two settings are 
      independent.


Default Commands

Many Screen Power commands have been pre-programmed.  A variety of hotkeys, 
windows, monitors, and macros exist in default mode.  These commands are 
active when you first run Screen Power.  You do not need to set them, although 
you can change them and save them in your own default environment file if you 
wish.  For a complete list of default commands, see the separate document, 
"Screen Power Command Summary."  


Default Configuration File Options (C)

This item is in the Default File Options sub-menu of the File Options menu in 
the Global Options menu.  Its two settings are:

      L:  Load Default Configuration Settings
      S:  Save Current Configuration as Default

Select Load if you have changed your braille options and speech settings 
(rate, volume, etc.) during your current working session, but don't want to 
keep them.  Screen Power will abandon your settings and re-load the default 
configuration settings.

Select Save if you have changed your braille and speech settings and want to 
make them permanent.  They will then become the default configuration 
settings.  Screen Power will overwrite its default file with your settings.  
The default configuration settings are saved in a file named SPI.CFG.  Screen 
Power loads this file automatically when it runs.  

Note: Unlike environment files, you cannot save multiple configurations with 
      different names, so select your default settings carefully.  

Default Dot Tables File Options (D)




This item is in the Default File Options sub-menu of the File Options menu in 
the Global Options menu.  Its two settings are:

      L:  Load Default Dot Tables Settings
      S:  Save Current Dot Tables as Default

Select Load if you want to re-load the default set of braille dot tables.  
Select Save if you want your dot tables set to become Screen Power's default.  
Screen Power will overwrite its default file with your settings.  If you 
choose to save your current dot tables as the default, Screen Power saves it 
in its default file named SPI.DOT.  

Most people will never use this option.  You will only use this option if you 
need to use more than one braille table, such as French or Hebrew braille.  
This option does not enable you to create or edit braille tables; it merely 
loads previously created tables into active memory.


Default Environment File Options (E)

This item is in the Default File Options sub-menu of the File Options menu in 
the Global Options menu.  Its two settings are:

      L:  Load Default Environment Settings
      S:  Save Current Environment as Default

Select Save if you want your environment settings to become Screen Power's 
defaults.  Remember that the environment settings include windows, monitors, 
hotkeys (including panel keys), place markers, macros, and such things as 
verbal options and dictionary settings.  If you want all these to become the 
defaults, then save them here.  Screen Power will overwrite its default file 
with your settings.  

Select Save if you have created or changed hotkeys, macros, place markers, 
windows, monitors, dictionary settings, or verbal options during your current 
working session and want to make them Screen Power's default settings.  You 
can save as many environments as you want using the "Environment File Options" 
menu.  Any one of these can become the default environment.  This is the 
environment Screen Power loads automatically each time you load Screen Power.  
If you choose to save your current environment as the default, Screen Power 
saves it in its default file, named SPI.ENV.  Screen Power will overwrite this 
file with your settings.  (Note: Screen Power keeps a backup copy of the 
default environment in a file named SPI.SPI.  If you ever want to go back to 
the factory default settings, just copy this file to the file SPI.ENV.)

Default File Options (D)




This item is in the File Options menu of the Global Options menu.  Menu 
selections are:

      E:  Default Environment File Options
      D:  Default Dot Tables File Options
      C:  Default Configuration File Options

The same two options exist for each of the above items.  They are:

      L:  Load Default Settings
      S:  Save Current Settings as Default

The Default File Options menu choice enables you to save your current settings 
as the default environment, braille dot table, or configuration.  Use this 
option if you want your settings to load automatically when you load Screen 
Power each time.  It also allows you to re-load the default file settings for 
each of these.  

Save your settings to default when you have settled on settings that you feel 
comfortable with.  Screen Power has special files, SPI.ENV, SPI.DOT, and 
SPI.CFG.  When you save your settings to default, the settings are stored in 
one of these files so that they will load automatically when you load Screen 
Power.  Refer to entries for each of the above in this Reference Guide for 
more details.  


Define Dictionary Options (D)

This item is found in the Global Options menu.  Its options are:

      A:  Add
      D:  Delete
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select A to add a word to the pronunciation dictionary.  Screen Power displays 
and speaks its "Enter Dictionary String" message.  Type the word or text 
string as it is spelled.  Next Screen Power displays and speaks its "Enter 
Pronunciation String" message, where you should enter the phonetic spelling 
for that work.  

Select D to delete a pronunciation from the dictionary.  Select S to check 
each word and its phonetic spelling.

Screen Power pronounces most words correctly, including many words that do not 
follow pronunciation rules, such as Illinois.  You can use the dictionary to 
have acronyms expanded into their component words instead of pronounced as 
their letters.  Or you may want to have an unusual abbreviation pronounced as 
its full word.  

Be careful with the dictionary pronunciations.  The dictionary is not 
case-specific (that is, it doesn't differentiate between upper case and


lower case letters).  Also, these pronunciations affect all occurrences of the 
text string.  This could easily happen with an abbreviation like UN for United 
Nations.  If you tell Screen Power to pronounce the text string "un" as 
"united nations," then the word "unite" will be pronounced as "united nations 
ite."  

Note: Use this menu item to add and delete words from the dictionary.  A 
      separate menu item, "Dictionary Options," controls whether or not Screen 
      Power uses the dictionary.  Dictionary Options is found in the Verbal 
      Options menus in Communication, Review, and Screen modes.  


Define Field Data Menu (D)

This item is found in the Form Processing Options menu in the Global Options 
menu.  When you select this option, Screen Power takes you directly to the 
Boundary menu.  Its options are:

      E:  Entire Screen
      L:  Left Column
      T:  Top Row
      R:  Right Column
      B:  Bottom Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select E to set the field data boundaries to be the entire screen area.  Use 
the other four options, Left Column, Top Row, Right Column, and Bottom Row, to 
set the four corners of your field data area.  The defaults are all 
"Undefined" until you set boundaries.  You must set all four boundaries for 
your field data.  The Show selection displays the field data boundaries you 
have just set.  

The F2 key in the Boundary menu allows you to set boundaries via cursor 
positioning in your application screen.  After you press F2, Screen Power 
displays a freeze-frame of your last active screen.  Move the cursor to the 
desired location, then select T, B, L, and R to set the top, bottom, left, and 
right boundaries.  You can also use CTRL-LEFT ARROW to move the F2 cursor to 
the left edge of the current line.  Use CTRL-RIGHT ARROW to move the F2 cursor 
to the right edge of the current line.  Press ENTER to confirm your selection.  
Press ESC to abort at any time.  

Refer to the "Form Processing Options" entry for complete information about 
setting up your screen for form processing.  

Define Field Name Menu (N)




This item is found in the Form Processing Options menu in the Global Options 
menu.  When you select this option, Screen Power takes you directly to the 
Boundary menu.  Its options are:

      E:  Entire Screen
      L:  Left Column
      T:  Top Row
      R:  Right Column
      B:  Bottom Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select E to set the field name boundaries to be the entire screen area.  Use 
the other four options, Left Column, Top Row, Right Column, and Bottom Row, to 
set the four corners of your field name area.  The defaults are all 
"Undefined" until you set boundaries.  You must set all four boundaries for 
your field name.  The Show selection displays the field name boundaries you 
have just set.  

The F2 key in the Boundary menu allows you to set boundaries via cursor 
positioning in your application screen.  After you press F2, Screen Power 
displays a freeze-frame of your last active screen.  Move the cursor to the 
desired location, then select T, B, L, and R to set the top, bottom, left, and 
right boundaries.  You can also use CTRL-LEFT ARROW to move the F2 cursor to 
the left edge of the current line.  Use CTRL-RIGHT ARROW to move the F2 cursor 
to the right edge of the current line.  Press ENTER to confirm your selection.  
Press ESC to abort at any time.  

Refer to the "Form Processing Options" entry for complete information about 
setting up your screen for form processing.


Dictionary Options (D)

This item is found in the Verbal Options sub-menu of the Communication mode, 
Review mode, and Screen mode menus (the Verbal Options menu in Keyboard mode 
is different and does not contain this item).  Its options are I: Ignore and 
U: Use.  The default is Use.  Select Use if you want to use the pronunciation 
dictionary you set up in the Global Options menu.  Select Ignore if you do not 
want the dictionary to be active.  

Note: Use this menu item only to Use or Ignore the dictionary.  Use the 
      "Define Dictionary Options" item in the Global Options menu to add and 
      delete words from the dictionary.  

Display Cursor Options (D)




This item pertains to braille only.  It is in the Braille Display Options menu 
from the Braille Options menu.  Its options are S: Show, H: Hide, and T: 
Cursor Type Options, another menu.  The default is Show.  Show and Hide are 
equivalent to the Gateway "Hide Cursor" command, CHORD (") (dot 5).  If you 
choose to Hide the cursor, you will not know where the cursor is located on 
your braille display.  We recommend keeping this option at Show.  

Select T to go to the Cursor Type sub-menu.  Its options are 1: All Dots Up, 
2: Dot 8 Up and Vibrating, 3: All Dots Up and Dot 2 Vibrating, and 4: Dots 7 
and 8 Up (the default).  

If you are using 8-dot braille, you will probably display the cursor as dots 7 
and 8.  This ensures that the cursor doesn't interfere with identification of 
the characters in dots 1 to 6.  If you are using 6-dot braille, the cursor may 
be a full cell or a full cell with dot 2 vibrating.  If you are using 6-dot 
braille, you may prefer to hide the cursor temporarily so that you can 
identify the character underneath it.  


Display Width (W)

This item pertains to braille only.  It is in the Braille Display Options menu 
from the Braille Options menu.  This is equivalent to the Gateway "Display 
Length" start-up command option, /WIDE, and the CHORD (y) command followed by 
a two-digit number.  

Note: Unlike most braille options, this item is saved in an environment file, 
      not a configuration file.  The only other braille options that are saved 
      in an environment file are the panel key hotkeys and braille and 
      BrailleMate keyboard hotkeys.  All other items in the braille options 
      menu are saved in the configuration file.

This item allows you to use a split display.  You can, for example, designate 
only the first 29 characters for the computer information and the last 10 
characters of the 40-cell braille display to show BrailleMate information, 
with a blank cell between.  This situation would occur if you connected 
BrailleMate to Power Braille 40's DTE port and the computer to either the DCE 
or the parallel port.  Then whenever you press the MOVE RIGHT or MOVE LEFT 
keys, the display will move only 29 characters, because Screen Power 
understands this display to be only 29 characters in width.

You must specify the display width for each device (the computer information 
and BrailleMate information) separately.  From each input device, you will be 
prompted to enter a number.  The default is the number of cells on your 
braille display unit.  The minimum allowable entry is 10; the maximum is the 
number of cells on your braille display.  In the above example, you would set 
the Display Width to 29, because


you want to restrict the computer information to the first 29 cells of the 
display.  We recommend leaving a blank cell between the display areas to 
clearly separate the text.  

The DCE and parallel ports always count from left to right, while the DTE port 
always counts from right to left, so with BrailleMate connected to the DTE 
port, the BrailleMate Display Width would be 10 cells from the right. You 
should always leave a blank cell between the display areas, though it is not 
mandatory.  Remember that the DTE, DCE, and parallel ports we are speaking of 
are those on your braille display hardware (Power Braille 40 or Navigator), 
not on your computer.

Note that setting this item does not automatically invoke a split display.  It 
only allows for re-sizing what Screen Power uses.  You must also set a 
BrailleMate (or any hardware operating the second port on the braille display) 
to invoke the split display mode.  

To set BrailleMate to be the other part of the split display, you must first 
press chord y (dots 1,3,4,5,6) on BrailleMate.  This allows you to use a Power 
Braille 40 or Navigator as the BrailleMate display.  Next enter the number of 
cells (in computer braille) that you want to use.  If you want to use 10 cells 
for BrailleMate, enter a computer braille 10 here.  Finally, you must press 
either chord y again or chord e (dots 1,5).  If you press chord y, it assigns 
the Power Braille 40 (or Navigator) panel keys to BrailleMate; if you press 
chord e, control of the Power Braille 40 panel keys remain with the computer.  
When you want to return control of the full display to the computer 
information, press chord y, then chord q on BrailleMate.  You must also set 
the Screen Power Display Width back to 40.  

Note: If, in the above example, you set the DTE device to 10 cells and forget 
      to set the DCE or parallel device (which will usually be your computer 
      information), don't assume that Power Braille 40 will figure out that it 
      should only display 30 characters.  Instead, the last 10 characters of 
      the computer information will be missing from your braille display, 
      although Power Braille 40 will still think it is displaying them.  When 
      you press the ADVANCE key, the display will move forward 40 characters, 
      but the last 10 will still be the BrailleMate display coming through the 
      DTE port.  You will therefore miss 10 characters each time you move your 
      display.  


Echo Options (E)

This item pertains to speech only.  It is found in the Screen mode and 
Keyboard mode menus.  Its options are:



      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

The default in Screen mode is Enabled.  The default in Keyboard mode is 
Disabled.  That means that characters that you type (Keyboard mode) will not 
be echoed, while characters coming onto the screen (Screen mode) will be 
echoed. 


Environment File Options (E)

This item is in the File Options menu of the Global Options menu.  Menu 
selections are L: Load and S: Save.  Environment files include all your 
windows, monitors, macros, hotkeys (including panel keys), place markers, 
dictionary entries, and other items such as verbal options.  After you select 
Load or Save, Screen Power prompts you to enter a filename.  If you are saving 
an environment, give it a name that will be meaningful to you.  Don't worry 
about the file extension-Screen Power provides it for you.  All environments 
are given the extension .SPI.  

If you want to set different environments for different applications, give 
each environment a name that ties it to that application.  For example, you 
can have a WP51.SPI and a LOTUS3.SPI (remember, Screen Power will fill in the 
.SPI extension).  If two people share a computer, each person can have his own 
environment.  For example, you might have a SPOCK.SPI file and a KIRK.SPI 
file.  

You can load and save environments from DOS with the SPILOAD and SPISAVE 
utilities.  Type the filename after the SPILOAD or SPISAVE command.  You do 
not need to specify the .SPI extension.  For example, to load the SPOCK.SPI 
file, type the following:

      SPILOAD SPOCK

Screen Power will now load the SPOCK environment file and replace the current 
settings with the SPOCK settings.  You can load and save files from another 
directory by including the proper path.  For example, to save the SPOCK 
environment to the VULCAN directory, you should type: SPISAVE \VULCAN\SPOCK.  

If you find that you are repeatedly loading one environment, you may want to 
consider making it your default environment.  See the entry on "Default 
Environment File Options" for more details.


Feedback Options (F)

This item pertains to braille only.  It is in the Braille Options menu.  It 
has several menu items, including two sub-menus.  The menu items are:  



      V:  Visual bar Display Options
      T:  Tones Options
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

These options control aspects of the feedback Screen Power gives you.  Use the 
Visual bar Display Options to enable or disable the visual bar that shows up 
on the computer screen to indicate where the braille display is located.  The 
default is to enable the visual bar.  Use the Tones Options to enable or 
disable the tones that Screen Power uses to indicate such things as when you 
move to a new line or reach a window boundary.  The default is to enable the 
tones.  See also the "Visual Bar Display Options" and "Tones Options" entries 
in this Reference Guide.  


File Options (F)

This item is in the Global Options menu, and consists of the following 
selections:

      E:  Environment File Options
      B:  Braille Dot Tables File Options
      D:  Default File Options
      Q:  Quit

Environment files include all your windows, monitors, macros, hotkeys 
(including panel keys), place markers, dictionary settings, and other items 
such as verbal options.  You can have as many of these files as you want.

Braille Dot Tables are the ASCII characters that each braille character 
represents.  The default is the American braille code.  Other braille dot 
tables exist, such as French braille and Hebrew braille.  In addition, you can 
load a customized braille dot table if you have one.  See the "Braille Dot 
Tables Options" entry in this Reference Guide for details.  

All your speech settings (rate, volume, pitch, and voice) and the settings you 
select through the Braille Options menu (with a couple of exceptions: "Display 
Width" and the various hotkeys) are saved in the default configuration file, 
accessible through the Default File Options menu.  

If you want your environment to load automatically when you load Screen Power, 
use the Default File Options selection to make your environment the default 
environment.  The Default File Options menu choice enables you to load the 
default environment, braille dot table, or configuration.  It also enables you 
to save your current settings as the default for each of these.  Use this 
option if you want your settings to load automatically when you load Screen 
Power each time.  See the "Default File Options" entry in this Reference Guide 
for details.  




Foreground Attribute (F)

This item appears only in the Attribute menu.  Its options are identical to 
those in the Background Attributes menu.  They are:

      B:  Black
      U:  Blue
      G:  Green
      C:  Cyan
      R:  Red
      M:  Magenta
      N:  Brown
      W:  White
      I:  Ignore

The default is Ignore.  

Select one of the foreground attribute colors if you want to include it in 
Soft Cursor Tracking or in a Monitor.  See the entry on "Attribute Options" 
for more information about attributes in general.  


Form Processing Options (O)

This item is in the Global Options menu.  When you select Form Processing 
Options, you are first shown a status display for the next form field number 
(explained in detail below).  You must then press "I" to enter Insert mode or 
"E" to enter Edit mode.  When you do, Screen Power takes you to the Form 
Processing menu.  The menu options are:

      N:  Define Field Name
      D:  Define Field Data
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Form processing is a Screen Power feature that allows you to customize your 
computer screen to read field labels or field data in database or data entry 
programs such as dBase.  On-line business programs, such as those in banking 
or credit card companies, also usually have screens with information displayed 
in pre-set, unchangeable locations.  It is helpful to be able to quickly read 
any of the field labels and field data.  Screen Power's form processing 
feature allows you to define an individual area for each label and data field 
(Screen Power calls field labels "field names.").  Then you can use Screen 
Power navigation commands to go to and read any name or data field you want. 

When you select Form Processing from the Global Options menu, Screen Power 
displays a Form Field Status screen.  The screen looks like this:



      Form Field Number             1

      Field Name Left Column:       Undefined
      Field Name Top Row:           Undefined
      Field Name Right Column:      Undefined
      Field Name Bottom Row:        Undefined
      Field Data Left Column:       Undefined
      Field Data Top Row:           Undefined
      Field Data Right Column:      Undefined
      Field Data Bottom Row:        Undefined

The number 1 following the words "Form Field Number" indicates that this is 
the first field you are defining on the screen.  You need to set the 
boundaries for both the field label (name) and field data for this and every 
field.  The next eight lines contain the current status of each boundary: the 
first four items define the boundaries of the area for the field name (or 
label); the next four items define the boundaries for the field data area.  
These boundaries are as yet undefined.  

To assign your form processing fields, you must enter Insert mode by pressing 
the INS key or typing the letter "I,"  or enter Edit mode by pressing the 
ENTER key or typing the letter "E."  These letters do not need to be 
capitalized.  Screen Power then takes you directly to the Form Processing menu 
listed above.  You do not need to set the field name before you set the field 
data.  You also do not need to set all of Field Number 1 before going on to 
set other fields.  You may set all the field names before going back to set 
all the field data.  However, it is most convenient to set all the boundaries 
for each field at the same time, since the beginning boundary of the field 
data is usually adjacent to the ending boundary of the field name.  

Select Define Field Name to set the boundaries of the field name.  Screen 
Power takes you directly to the Boundary menu.  This is the same Boundary menu 
used in all the Windows and Monitors menus in Communication and Review modes 
and in the Screen mode menu.  Its options are:

      E:  Entire Screen
      L:  Left Column
      T:  Top Row
      R:  Right Column
      B:  Bottom Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select E to set the field name boundaries to be the entire screen area.  Use 
the other four options, Left Column, Top Row, Right Column, and Bottom Row, to 
set the four corners of your field name area.  The defaults are all 
"Undefined" until you set boundaries.  You must set all


four boundaries for your field name.  The Show selection displays the field 
name boundaries you have just set.  Set the boundaries for the Define Field 
Data menu selection in the same way.  

The F2 key in the Boundary menu allows you to set boundaries via cursor 
positioning in your application screen.  After you press F2, Screen Power 
displays a freeze-frame of your last active screen.  Move the cursor to the 
desired location, then select T, B, L, and R to set the top, bottom, left, and 
right boundaries.  You can also use CTRL-LEFT ARROW to move the F2 cursor to 
the left edge of the current line.  Use CTRL-RIGHT ARROW to move the F2 cursor 
to the right edge of the current line.  Press ENTER to confirm your selection.  
Press ESC to abort at any time.  

When you have set all eight boundaries for the first field, check the settings 
using the Show setting.  Then press the DOWN ARROW key to move to Form Field 
Number 2.  Define this field as you defined Field Number 1.  When you have set 
all the fields you need, use the Show selection to review the settings.  
Screen Power sets no limit on the number of fields you can define.  

Several Screen Power functions exist to read your fields.  They are:

      Say Current Field Name
      Say Next Field Name
      Say Previous Field Name
      Say Current Field Data
      Say Next Field Data
      Say Previous Field Data
      Say Current Field Name and Data
      Say Next Field Name and Data
      Say Previous Field Name and Data

We recommend that you set hotkeys for each of these functions.  Refer to the 
"Hotkeys" entry for more information.


Global Options (G)

This item is in the Screen Power Integrated Main Menu.  It contains several 
sub-menu options:



      D:  Define Dictionary Options
      O:  Form Processing Options
      F:  File Options
      S:  Soft Cursor Tracking Options
      T:  Text Searching Options
      R:  Route Delay
      M:  Monitor Rate Options
      A:  Activate Speech Options
      Y:  Synchronization Options
      Q:  Quit

The Global menu is used to set items that affect general Screen Power 
operation or items that are used in all modes.  Select Define Dictionary 
Options to add words to Screen Power's pronunciation dictionary.  Form 
Processing Options allow you to set areas of the screen as field names and 
data areas for reading forms, so that Screen Power will read them at your 
command.  Use File Options to load or save your configuration, environment, 
and braille dot tables files.  Soft Cursor Tracking Options allow you to have 
Screen Power track a non-traditional cursor.  This function is an outgrowth of 
TeleSensory's Track program.  Select Text Searching Options to instruct Screen 
Power to search for text on the screen.  Select Route Delay to set Screen 
Power's route delay.  Select Monitor Rate Options to set the rate that Screen 
Power waits while monitoring the screen.  Use Activate Speech Options to turn 
on or off Screen Power's speech processing and output.  Use Synchronization 
Options to set the braille display to either follow or not follow the speech.  

Each of the above menu items has an entry in this Reference Guide.  See each 
individual entry for more information.  


Grade 2 Braille Display Options (G)

This item is in the Braille Options menu.  It has several menu items, 
including two sub-menus.  The menu items are:  

      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      M:  Multiple Line Display Options
      L:  Line Break Options
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Screen Power's sophisticated programming allows you to display the computer 
information in Grade 2 braille if you choose.  When Grade 2 braille is 
enabled, only whole words will display (Screen Power will not break words at 
the right edge of the braille display).  

When Grade 2 is not enabled, the braille display shows computer braille.  This 
is braille as outlined in the M.I.T. Computer Braille Code. 


This code lets braille devices talk to computers and printers without 
confusion, displaying each character in just one braille cell.  There are no 
number signs or upper case indicators in computer braille, because they take 
two cells to display information about one character.  Numbers and most 
punctuation are handled as they are in Nemeth math.  This is one reason why 
8-dot braille is beneficial with computer braille, since it can display 
information about upper case letters and other characteristics in dots 7 and 
8.

Select E to Enable Grade 2 braille on the braille display.  Select D to go 
back to ASCII braille.  The default is Disabled.  

Select M to have more than one line display on the braille window.  The 
options are Y: Yes and N: No.  The default is to show single lines.  With this 
item selected, Screen Power will bring characters from the next computer line 
onto the current braille display to fill up as much of the braille display as 
possible.  You can think of this new feature as a continuous braille reading 
mode.  

Select L to have Screen Power display line breaks.  The options are Y: Yes and 
N: No.  The default is to display line breaks.  Use this function to have 
Screen Power put a line break character on the braille display to indicate the 
end of a line.  The character is a computer braille $l (the computer braille 
dollar sign, dots 1,2,4,6, plus the letter "L") followed by a space.  

Note: You must have TeleSensory's SPView2 program running to use Grade 2 
      braille with Screen Power.  SPVIEW2 is TeleSensory's real-time Grade 2 
      braille translation system.  SPVIEW2 is fully compatible with the 
      Duxbury command set for text translation and text formatting.  SPVIEW2 
      was probably installed when you installed Screen Power Integrated.  If 
      it wasn't, you can re-install Screen Power and select "Load Grade 2 
      Braille" at the prompt, or you can add the line CALL SPVIEW2 to your 
      SP.BAT file immediately before the SPI program line (SPView2 must run 
      before Screen Power).  If you are upgrading your Navigator from Gateway 
      to Screen Power Integrated, you must use SPVIEW2 instead of the View2 
      program that came with your Navigator.


Graphic Character Braille Options (G)

This item pertains to braille only.  It controls how the braille display 
indicates graphics characters (a separate item, "Graphic Character Options" in 
the Verbal Options menus, controls how speech indicates graphics characters).  

This item is in the Character Display Options sub-menu from the Braille 
Display Options menu from the Braille Options menu.   Its options are S: Show 
and H: Hide.  The default is Hide.  



Graphics characters are upper ASCII characters from 176-223.  When Graphic 
Characters are set to Hide, ASCII characters 176-223 are blank on your braille 
display, regardless of whether you are in 6-dot or 8-dot mode.  


When Graphic Characters are set to Show, Screen Power displays ASCII 
characters 176-191 one way and characters 192-223 a different way.

In 8-dot mode, Screen Power displays characters 176-191 as a character in dots 
1 through 6, plus dot 7.  Characters 192-223 are displayed as a character in 
dots 1 through 6, plus dots 7 and 8.  

In 6-dot mode with Graphics set to Show, characters 176-191 are  displayed as 
a character in dots 1 through 6 only.  Characters 192-223 are all displayed as 
dots 3 and 6 only.  (Dots 3 and 6 are also used to indicate control characters 
when you set Control Characters to Hide.  See that entry for more 
information.)  




             8-dot Mode                6-dot Mode

ASCII CharactersShow GraphicsHide GraphicsShow GraphicsHide Graphics

176-191      Dot 7 plus characterBlank Just the character* (dots 1-6 only)
                                       
                                       * Vibrates fast if Vibration 
                                                     EnabledBlank

192-223      Dots 7,8 plus characterBlankDots 3,6 only to indicate all 
                                       characters    Blank
Note: Vibration Options is not linked to Graphic Character Braille Options.  
      Vibration is a means to identify upper case characters and extended 
      ASCII characters in 6-dot mode.  It has no use in 8-dot mode because 
      dots 7 and 8 adequately identify these types of characters.  When 
      Vibration is Enabled, characters 161-191 vibrate fast in 6-dot mode 
      (including characters 176-191).  Characters 192-223 never vibrate.  See 
      the entry on "Vibration Options" for more information.  Also see the 
      entry on "8/6-dot Display Options" for more information about how Screen 
      Power uses dots 7 and 8 to display ASCII characters.

Graphic Character Options (G)




This item pertains to speech only.  It controls how speech indicates graphics 
characters (a separate item, "Graphic Character Braille Options" in the 
Character Display Options sub-menu from the Braille Display Options menu, 
controls how the braille display indicates graphic characters).  

This item is in the Verbal Options sub-menu from the Communication mode, 
Review mode, Screen mode, and Keyboard mode menus.  It has one sub-menu.  Its 
options in Communication, Review, and Screen mode are:

      I:  Ignore
      S:  Say
      A:  ASCII
      R:  Repeat Character Options

The default in Communication and Review mode is Say.  The default in Screen 
mode is Ignore.  In Keyboard mode, the options are S: Say and A: ASCII, and 
the default is Say.  This selection deals with how Screen Power treats 
extended ASCII graphics characters.  If you choose Ignore, Screen Power will 
not read graphic characters.  It will treat them as though they were spaces.  
This is helpful when dealing with application programs with graphics borders.  
If you choose Say, Screen Power will say the word "graphic."  If you choose 
ASCII, Screen Power will read the ASCII value of the graphic character.  Use 
the Repeat Graphic Character Options menu to select how you want Screen Power 
to verbalize multiple occurrences of a graphic character.  See the "Repeat 
Graphic Character Options" entry for more information.  

Help (F1)

Screen Power has a very sophisticated, contextual, on-line help system.  
Activate the help system by pressing F1 on the computer keyboard or the convex 
and concave keys on Power Braille 40 (the two Execute buttons on Navigator) at 
any time in the menu system.  Screen Power's help is contextual.  That means 
if you press F1 in the Windows menu, you will get information about setting 
windows. 

The following QWERTY (computer) keys are active in the Help system:

UP ARROW or BACKSPACE         Move up a line and say line
DOWN ARROW or SPACE           Move down a line and say line
HOME                          Move to first line and say line
END                           Move to last line and say line
LEFT or RIGHT ARROW           Say current line
PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN          Say entire Help screen
ESC                           Leave on-line help system

Highlight Attribute (H)




This item appears only in the Attribute menu.  Its options are:

      Y:  Highlight
      N:  No Highlight
      I:  Ignore Highlight

The default is Ignore.  

Select Highlight if you want to monitor a highlighted attribute or if your 
program uses a highlighted character as a soft cursor.  Select No Highlight if 
you want to monitor or soft cursor track a non-highlighted character.  Select 
Ignore Highlight if it doesn't matter whether the character is highlighted or 
not.


Hotkeys (H)

This item appears in the Screen Power Main Menu.  It has several options:

      A:  Add
      D:  Delete
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit


What Are Hotkeys?

Hotkeys are one of the most useful and important of Screen Power's features.  
A hotkey is a shortcut.  A hotkey is a Screen Power key combination that 
executes or duplicates another command, such as one from a word processor or 
from DOS.  A hotkey is a key combination that allows you to execute a Screen 
Power function without using the menu system.  

You will probably find various options that you need to change frequently.  
For example, you may want to set a hotkey to set the speech rate faster and 
another one to set it slower.  

Four kinds of hotkeys exist: QWERTY keyboard hotkeys, braille keyboard 
hotkeys, BrailleMate keyboard hotkeys (only used if you have a BrailleMate 
connected), and panel key hotkeys.  The menu selection we discuss in this 
entry controls QWERTY hotkeys.  Set braille and BrailleMate hotkeys through 
the Braille Keyboard Hotkeys sub-menu in the Braille Options menu; set panel 
hotkeys through the Panel Keys Hotkeys sub-menu in the Braille Options menu.  
The four kinds of hotkeys all work on the same principle.  

We have pre-set many hotkeys for you.  As a matter of fact, all the default 
Screen Power navigation commands (such as CONTROL-T to read the current line, 
CONTROL-SHIFT-G to spell the current word, and all the panel keys) are 
actually hotkeys that we have pre-set for you.


You may change these hotkeys and set as many of your own as you have 
keystrokes.  QWERTY hotkeys will normally use one or more of the special keys, 
CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT, along with another key, although you can set a key alone 
to be a hotkey.  This is very risky, though, as most single keys have 
functions already.  Be very careful also when using the SHIFT key.  Don't set 
a hotkey to, for example, SHIFT-T, unless you never want to type a capital T!  

To change a hotkey, you must first delete the key combination, then reset it 
to the new function.  This feature safeguards against accidentally overwriting 
your hotkeys.  


Adding Hotkeys

For QWERTY keyboard hotkeys, select A from the Hotkeys menu to add a hotkey.  
Screen Power then displays the Special Key menu:

      1:  Alt
      2:  Control
      3:  Shift
      4:  Alt-Control
      5:  Alt-Shift
      6:  Control-Shift
      7:  None

With these special key combinations to use along with many of the QWERTY keys, 
you have a virtually unlimited supply of hotkeys to define and use.  After you 
select which special key to use, Screen Power prompts you to enter a key.  
This is the key you will press along with the special key you just selected.  
If you want the hotkey to be CTRL-ALT-I, choose 4 from the Add menu, then 
enter the letter "i".  

Screen Power now takes you to the Select Function screen.  Here you can select 
from over 1400 Screen Power functions (including functions for 100 each 
windows, monitors, place markers, and macros), such as Link/Unlink Display 
with Cursor, Enable/Disable Grade 2 Braille, Spell Next Word, Say Numbers as 
Pairs, Ignore Punctuation, Go to Place Marker, Enable Monitor, Execute Macro, 
and many others.  

You can use the F2 key to search for the function you want.  When you get to 
the Select Function screen, press F2, then type some key letters of the 
function you want.  Screen Power immediately goes to the first occurrence of 
your text string, updating its search with each new character you add.  The 
function is shown on the braille display.  When you reach the function you 
want, press the ENTER key to select it.

You can also use the PAGE DOWN, PAGE UP, DOWN ARROW, and UP ARROW keys to move 
through the function list.  This usually takes more time, but it can help you 
become familiar with the functions.



Use hotkeys to save time and keystrokes.  Hotkeys are always one-stroke 
commands, but they can be many different types of commands.  Use hotkeys in 
combination with monitors when you want to have some on-the-spot control over 
parts of your application program.  For example, you can set a monitor to 
report activation of the WordPerfect Thesaurus screen, then use hotkeys to 
peruse the thesaurus choices.  As a matter of fact, when you use Screen Power 
with WordPerfect, you are using hotkeys, because we have pre-defined the arrow 
keys as hotkeys.  The CTRL-V command that you use to enter Screen Power's menu 
system is even a hotkey.  You can change it to another key combination if you 
like.  

It is significant that you can set a hotkey to execute a macro.  Or you can 
set a hotkey to enable a monitor that itself executes a macro.  With one 
Screen Power hotkey, you can accomplish what could otherwise be a tedious, 
time-consuming process.  

Refer to the "Macros" and "Monitors" entries in this Reference Guide for more 
information about these functions.  


Other Hotkey Selections

Select S for Show to step through all the hotkeys and their functions.  Select 
D to Delete a hotkey.  Screen Power will bring up a Status screen that 
displays the active BrailleMate hotkeys.  Step through them using the DOWN 
ARROW (or SPACEBAR), UP ARROW (or BACKSPACE), HOME, and END keys.  When you 
come to the one you want to delete, press the ENTER key.  

You can use F2 in the Hotkey Show or Delete menus to search for a hotkey 
assignment.  From within Show or Delete, press F2.  Screen Power will first 
need a special key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, or a combination), so it will display 
the Special Key menu.  Press a number from 1 to 7 to correspond to one of the 
seven special key selections.  Screen Power displays the "enter key" screen.  
Press the key to search for.  Screen Power will take you to that key and read 
the function assigned to it.  

For example, if you want to delete the hotkey you think you have assigned as 
CTRL-SHIFT-K, you can use F2 to search for the hotkey.  After you choose 
Delete in the Hotkey menu, press F2.  Screen Power takes you to the Special 
Key menu.  Since you are looking for a hotkey assignment that uses the 
CTRL-SHIFT key combination, enter the number 6 at the Special Key menu.  Next 
press the K key in response to the Edit screen's "enter key" prompt.  Unless 
you have changed the default hotkey assignment, Screen Power will tell you 
that the function assigned to this hotkey is "say and spell current word" in 
Communication mode.  You can now select to delete the key (by pressing ENTER) 
or abort the delete process (by pressing ESCape).




If Condition Menu

When you select the "If" statement while defining a macro, Screen Power takes 
you to the Macro If Condition menu.  This menu only occurs in this place in 
the Macro menu.  Use the "If" statement to tell Screen Power to perform a 
branching function.  If the macro sees one set of conditions, then it should 
take one path, that is, execute a certain command.  If the conditions are not 
met (the "Else" statement), then it should take a different path and execute a 
different command.  When you want it to stop looking for the conditions, use 
the "Endif" statement.

The options and procedures to configure this menu are identical to those in 
the Monitor String Method menu.  This is because an "If" statement is looking 
for something on the screen-usually either text or attributes.  So do 
monitors.  So the "If" statement is like a special type of monitoring.  This 
type only monitors when triggered by an "If" statement in a macro, as opposed 
to a standard monitor that monitors automatically, all the time.  We 
thoroughly discuss the items below both here and in the "Monitors" section of 
this Reference Guide.  The Macro If Condition menu has four options:

      L:  Location Options
      M:  Method Options
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

These options are identical to those in other menus.  The Location menu 
contains the following options:

      C:  Column
      R:  Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

This menu has the same options as the Location menu in the Monitors menu.  Set 
the row and column coordinates of the first character for the macro If 
statement.  

You can use the F2 key if you want to select the column and row from the 
application screen.  After you press F2, Screen Power displays a freeze-frame 
of your last active screen.  Move the cursor to the desired location, then 
select L for Location (or C for Column and R for Row), then press the ENTER 
key.  Press ESC to abort at any time.  

Next go back to the Macro If Condition menu, then to the Method Options menu.  
Its selections are:

      T:  Text String
      A:  Attribute
      B:  Both Text String and Attribute



These menu options are identical to those in the Method section of the 
Monitors menu.  Select Text String if you want the macro to find text.  Screen 
Power prompts you to enter the text string.  Select Attribute if you want the 
macro to find a screen color or video attribute (highlighting or blinking).  
Screen Power first prompts you to enter an Attribute Counter.  The Attribute 
Counter is how many character spaces your attribute must appear in.  You can 
set up to 20 characters.  Screen Power then takes you directly to the 
Attribute menu.  These Attribute menu selections are identical to those in the 
Attribute menus in Windows, Monitors, and Soft Cursor Tracking:

      F:  Foreground
      B:  Background
      H:  Highlight
      K:  Blinking
      N:  Negating
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select F if the attribute occurs in the foreground of the computer screen.  
Select B if it is a background attribute.  Foreground and background 
selections each lead you to another sub-menu of all the possible color 
choices.  They are:

      B:  Black
      U:  Blue
      G:  Green
      C:  Cyan
      R:  Red
      M:  Magenta
      N:  Brown
      W:  White
      I:  Ignore

The default is Ignore.  You can also select Blinking or Highlight (you can 
monitor both if needed).  The defaults are Ignore for both attributes.  
Highlight and Blinking each lead you to a menu where you can select Y to 
activate the attribute, N if you want to deactivate it, and I if you want to 
ignore it.  

Select N for Negating if you want to select the absence of a particular 
attribute instead of its presence.  The choices here are Yes and No.  The 
default is No, or Attribute Negating Off.  

Select Show from the Attribute menu to display your macro attribute settings.  
Then go back to the Macro If Condition menu with ESC or Q.  You can check all 
your settings by selecting S for Show.  

Note: When you complete your "If" statement, you must then set a function in 
      your macro.  In other words, if the conditions are met,


      what should Screen Power do?  You must also tell Screen Power what to do 
      if your "If" conditions are not met.  Begin this branch with the "Else" 
      statement.  Follow the "Else" statement with the function you want 
      Screen Power to execute when the "If" conditions are not met.  


Interrupt Display Options (I)

This item is in the Braille Options menu.  It has two sub-menus.  Its 
selections are:  

      T:  Timer Interrupt Display Options
      V:  Video Interrupt Display Options
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Screen Power, as does any memory-resident or braille access program, uses 
certain computer interrupts to "hook into" the computer's activities, 
including the keyboard and the video display.  Usually this results in smooth 
interaction between Screen Power and the computer's application programs.  
Sometimes, however, a program uses one of the same interrupts that Screen 
Power uses, resulting in an interrupt conflict.  If this happens, the 
computer, the application program, or Screen Power may not operate as 
expected.  Therefore, Screen Power allows you to modify the use of two 
interrupts, which usually solves such conflicts.  

The Timer Interrupt works well for Screen Power in a large majority of cases, 
so it is Enabled in the default configuration.  You will rarely need to change 
these options.  You can change either one of them to its alternate setting 
from the menu.  You can view the current settings by selecting Show.  


Key Click Options (K)

This item is in the Keyboard Options menu.  Its options are:

      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

The default is Disabled.  Choose Enable if you want audible clicks whenever 
keys are struck.  Choose Disable if you do not want this audible feedback.  
Select Show to see the current setting.  


Key Panel Options (K)



This item refers to the key panel on the refreshable braille display.  The 
items is in the Braille Hardware Options menu of the Braille Options menu.  
Its two selections are:

      R:  Key Panel Repeat Rate
      D:  Key Panel Repeat Delay

When you select R for Key Panel Repeat Rate, Screen Power prompts you to enter 
the key panel repeat rate from 1 to 10.  The repeat rate is how many times 
each panel key can repeat per second.  The default is 3, which is 30 times per 
second.  

Select D to set the Key Panel Repeat Delay.  The repeat delay is how long you 
can hold down a panel key before the repetitions begin.  The default is 7, 
which is 7 hundredths of a second.  

These commands are the equivalent of the Gateway "Panel Repetitions" start-up 
option, /PANELREP followed by two numbers (one for repeat rate, the other for 
repeat delay).  


Key Panel Repeat Delay (D)

This item is in the Key Panel Options menu.  The repeat delay is how long you 
can hold down a front panel key before the repetitions begin.  When you select 
Key Panel Repeat Delay, Screen Power prompts you to enter the delay interval 
from 1 to 10.  The default is 7, which represents 7 hundredths of a second.  A 
rate of 10 would be 10 hundredths (or one tenth) of a second.  


Key Panel Repeat Rate (R)

This item is in the Key Panel Options menu.  The repeat rate is how many times 
each key can repeat per second.  When you select Key Panel Repeat Rate, Screen 
Power prompts you to enter a rate from 1-10.  The default is 3, which 
represents 30 times per second.  A rate of 10 would be 100 times per second.  


Keyboard Options (K)

This item pertains to speech only.  It is in the Screen Power Main Menu.  Its 
options are:

      E:  Echo Options
      V:  Verbal Options
      S:  Speech Options
      K:  Key Click Options
      Q:  Quit

Keyboard mode controls how (and if) keystrokes are spoken as you type them.  
Keystrokes can be spoken a character or a word at a time, or they can be 
silenced completely (you can use Communication mode as


another way to control how typed text is spoken, by selecting one of the Text 
Options in the Verbal Options menu).  Keyboard mode also controls keystroke 
characters that do not appear on the screen, such as a key that calls up a 
Lotus 1-2-3 menu or makes a menu selection. 

Use the Echo Options menu to enable or disable Keyboard mode, that is, to 
activate or silence the verbalizing of keystrokes.  Use the Verbal Options 
menu to configure how keystrokes are spoken (word by word or character by 
character), and configure other aspects, such as verbalization of graphic 
characters and control characters.  Note that this Verbal Options menu is 
different from the Verbal Options menu in the other three modes, in that this 
one has many fewer items to configure.  The Speech Options menu is identical 
to that in all the other modes, including rate,pitch, volume, and voice 
settings.  Use the Key Click Options menu to enable or disable key clicks.  
See the entries for each of the menu items for more details.  


Line Blank Options (L)

This item pertains to speech only.  It appears in the Line Options sub-menu of 
the Communication mode and Review mode menus.  Its options are:

      I:  Ignore
      S:  Say
      P:  Pause

The default is Say.  This item handles how Screen Power treats blank lines.  
(This is different from Blank or Space Options in the Verbal Options menu, 
which handles how Screen Power treats blank spaces.)  Select Ignore if you 
want Screen Power to do nothing when it encounters blank lines; select Say if 
you want Screen Power to say "blank" when it encounters blank lines; select 
Pause if you want Screen Power to pause.  

Note: A separate menu item, "Skip Blank Area Options," controls how the 
      refreshable braille display handles blank areas of the screen.  See that 
      entry in this Reference Guide for more details.  


Line Break Options (B)

This item pertains to braille only.  It is in the Grade 2 Braille Display 
Options menu of the Braille Options menu. The options are Y: Yes and N: No.  
Select Yes to have Screen Power display line breaks.  The default is to 
display line breaks. 

Use this function to have Screen Power put a line break symbol on the screen 
to indicate the end of a line.  The symbol is a computer braille $l (the 
computer braille dollar sign, dots 1,2,4,6, plus the letter "L") followed by a 
space.  



This option is only active if two other options are also enabled.  They are 
"Grade 2 Braille Display Options" and "Multiple Line Options" (which is the 
other selection in the Grade 2 Braille Display Options menu).  The reason is 
that the line break symbol is useful when you are using Grade 2 braille in 
Multiple Line mode.  In this case, you have contracted the braille into Grade 
2, so it will probably take up less than a full line.  Therefore, you can 
select to display more than one line at a time on your braille display.  When 
you display more than one line, you will need something to tell you that one 
line is ending and another is beginning.  This is the line break symbol that 
you set using this option.


Line Number Options (N)

This item pertains to speech only.  It appears in the Line Options sub-menu of 
the Communication mode and Review mode menus.  Its options are:

      I:  Ignore
      S:  Say

The default is Ignore.  Select Say if you want Screen Power to announce each 
line number of the active window.  Screen Power treats the first line of the 
active window as line 1, no matter where it is on the screen.  For example, if 
you are in a window consisting of screen lines 24 and 25, Screen Power will 
announce line 1 and line 2.  Select Ignore if you do not want Screen Power to 
announce line numbers.  

Note: The line numbering option only works with the "Say Active Window" 
      command, CTRL-' (single quote).  If your Active Window is only line 25, 
      then line 25 is the first line of your window.  Therefore, Screen Power 
      reads it as line 1.  In Communication mode, the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN 
      keys have been pre-set as hotkeys to say the active window.  Therefore, 
      they will read line numbers.  The "continuous read" commands, CTRL-G and 
      CTRL-H, are not active window commands, so you will not hear line 
      numbers when you execute these commands.  See the section on Active 
      Windows for more information.  


Line Options (L)

This item pertains to speech only.  It appears in the Communication and Review 
mode menus.  It is identical in each.  Its options are:

      P:  Line Pause Options
      N:  Line Number Options
      B:  Line Blank Options
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit



Line Options all deal with how the speech output handles the lines on the 
computer screen.  Line Pause Options gives a choice of having Screen Power 
pause speaking at the end of a line or not.  Use Line Number Options to have 
Screen Power read the line number (1 to 25) of the window you are in before it 
reads each line.  Use Line Blank Options to tell Screen Power to say "blank" 
at each blank line or to remain silent.  See the entries for each of the menu 
items for more details.  


Line Pause Options (P)

This item pertains to speech only.  It appears in the Line Options sub-menu of 
the Communication mode and Review mode menus.  Its options are:

      Y:  Yes
      N:  No

The default is No.  Select Yes if you want Screen Power to pause its speaking 
at the end of each line.  Select No if you do not want Screen Power to pause 
at the end of each line.  


Link Display with Cursor Options (L)

This item pertains to the refreshable braille display.  It is in the Braille 
Display Options menu from the Braille Options menu.  This is equivalent to the 
Gateway command CHORD (wh) or EXECUTE to link or unlink the window.  Its 
options are L: Link Display with Cursor or U: Unlink Display with Cursor.  The 
default is Enable.  This command links or unlinks the braille display with the 
computer cursor.  When linked, the braille display follows the cursor on the 
screen.  When unlinked, the cursor moves independently of the braille display.  
When the cursor moves, the braille display will not follow it.  This is a good 
command to set a hotkey for (see the entry on "Hotkeys" in this Reference 
Guide).  In fact, several default hotkeys exist for this function.  The front 
panel hotkey toggle is the concave key-press it once to unlink the braille 
display from the cursor; press it again to link them.  The braille hotkey is 
chorded dots 1,5,6.  This is also a toggle.  


Location Menu (L)

The Location Menu appears in the Place Markers menu, when you select the 
String method of monitoring, and when you activate the If Condition menu by 
using an "If" statement in a macro.  Its options are:

      C:  Column
      R:  Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit



You will use this menu to select an exact row and column location on the 
screen.  When setting place markers, you must set each to a specific screen 
location.  When setting the String method of monitoring, before you tell 
Screen Power what text string or attribute to monitor, you must first tell it 
where on the screen to begin monitoring.  Do both of these steps in the 
Location menu.  

This menu (and concept) differs from the Boundary Menu.  Use the Boundary menu 
when you need to set a screen area, which can be as large as the entire 
screen.  Use the Location menu when you need to set a precise point on the 
screen, which is always just one character in size.

The F2 key in the Location menu allows you to set your location via cursor 
positioning in your application screen.  After you press F2, Screen Power 
displays a freeze-frame of your last active screen.  Move the cursor to the 
desired location, then select L for Location, then press the ENTER key.  Press 
ESC to abort at any time.  You can also individually select the row and column 
settings by pressing R and L.  


Macros (M)

This item is in the Communication and Review mode menus.  The selections are 
identical in each mode.  When you select Macros, the system prompts you to 
enter a macro number.  You can set up to 100 macros in each of Communication 
and Review mode, for a total of 200 macros. 

Screen Power macros are like any other macros: they execute a number of tasks 
(or functions) with one command.  However, Screen Power macros are not 
restricted to Screen Power functions.  They let you combine and execute Screen 
Power commands with non-Screen Power commands.  

Another difference between Screen Power macros and most other macro systems is 
that Screen Power macros separate the macro statements from the key used to 
trigger the macro.  When you define a Screen Power macro, you are defining 
only the statements (functions) that go into it.  Independently from that, you 
define a hotkey to trigger the macro.  That gives you significantly more 
flexibility and control over fine-tuning your system to any application.  


What Are Macros?

Macros allow you to automate your system.  They are like super-hotkeys in that 
they allow you to perform multiple functions with one key sequence.  When you 
execute a macro by giving a single command, all of the commands stored in that 
macro are executed, just as though you had typed them in one at a time.  



Screen Power's macro system is built in, so it is available to you at any time 
while you are using your computer.  Macros can contain any valid keystroke, 
including DOS commands and commands for your application program.  For 
example, you can combine DOS commands to display files with Screen Power 
commands to  monitor the screen for a particular filename and unlink the 
braille display from the cursor. 

You can set a macro that looks for certain text or colors on the screen (such 
as those that indicate a spell-checker is active), and reads one window if it 
finds the text or colors, but reads a different window if it doesn't.  You can 
assign a hotkey to trigger the macro (for example, in WordPerfect, you can 
assign CTRL-F2 as a hotkey that both (1) triggers a macro to initiate spell 
checking and (2) activates a monitor that watches for the red background in 
line 13 that signifies spell checking).  

You can execute a macro from a hotkey or a monitor.  You can have a macro call 
another macro from within it.  The second macro can call a third.  You can 
chain as many macros as you want this way.  With macros and monitoring, you 
can create automatic reactions to changes on your screen.  This gives you 
great flexibility and control over your computer and your application 
programs.  


Defining a Macro

After you enter a macro number from 1 to 100 at the prompt in the Macros menu, 
Screen Power displays the following macro selections:

      D:  Define
      C:  Comment
      S:  Show
      R:  Reset to Undefine
      Q:  Quit

Select D to define a macro.  Select C to add a comment string to a macro.  
Select R to delete a macro.  Select S to have Screen Power show you the line 
statements of the current macro, one by one.  

When you select D, Screen Power displays the Define Macro screen.  All macros 
contain at least one statement: the "End of Macro" command that must go at the 
end of every macro.  An undefined macro has only this one statement.  You will 
add commands in front of this one.  The Define Macro screen displays the macro 
statements one at a time and takes two lines.  The "End of Macro" statement 
for Macro 10 will look like this:

          Define Macro        10

          Macro Entry:        1
          Communication Mode        End of Macro



"Define Macro" is the name of the screen.  The number 10 to the right 
indicates that we are defining macro number 10.  The number 1 to the right of 
the phrase "Macro Entry:" means that this is currently statement number 1 (of 
course, it is also the only statement in the macro at this point).  The bottom 
line says "Communication Mode" then "End of Macro".  The phrase "End of Macro" 
is the command that Screen Power automatically inserts as statement number 1.  
Usually you will be setting Communication mode macros, so Screen Power has a 
Communication mode "End of Macro" function.  A statement is an instruction, so 
a macro will be a list of instructions for Screen Power to execute.  

You can insert, delete, and edit macro statements in the Define Macro screen.  

To Insert:  Press the INS key or the letter "i" to insert a new statement.  
            Screen Power will always insert your command directly before the 
            statement that is displayed.  

To Delete:  Press the DEL key or the letter "d" to delete the statement that 
            is displayed.  

To Edit:    Press the ENTER key or the letter "e" to edit the statement that 
            is displayed.  

You cannot delete or edit the "End of Macro" statement, so if you press the 
ENTER key, Screen Power assumes you want to edit the macro to add another 
statement before the "End of Macro" statement.  In this case, pressing the 
ENTER key allows you to insert a statement.

To add a new command to a macro, press the ENTER or INS key on the computer 
keyboard.  Screen Power will insert your command directly before the "End of 
Macro" statement displayed.  If your macro has 5 statements and you want to 
add another statement between statements 2 and 3, step through the macro until 
you reach statement 3, then type "i" or press the INS key.  In this case, you 
must use the insert command.

Screen Power will then display the Select Function screen.  The braille 
display will show the first function in Screen Power's list while the speech 
reads it.  You can browse through the functions or use Screen Power's Search 
key (F2) to find the function you want.  

To use the Search key, press F2.  Screen Power says "Starting searching" and 
displays it on your braille display.  Now you should enter the text string you 
want to find.  You can use a text string up to 20 characters, but the shorter, 
the better.  As you type each letter, Screen Power moves to the first 
occurrence of a function containing your text string.  The function is 
displayed on your braille display.  Keep checking until the function matches 
the one you want.  Next press the ENTER key (on the computer keyboard or on 
Power Braille 40 or Navigator) to select the function.  Screen Power takes you 
back to the "Define Macro" screen,


where you will see your macro statement listed as the new statement number 3.  
Press the ESC key to abort the search at any time.

You can browse through the functions one by one using the DOWN ARROW or 
SPACEBAR key on the computer keyboard to move down, and using the UP ARROW or 
BACKSPACE key to move up.  You can also use Power Braille 40's LEFT ROCKER 
SWITCH to move up and down through the list of functions (or use the 
equivalent Navigator front panel key).  Many people will prefer to use the 
Power Braille 40 (or Navigator) panel keys for as many menu commands as 
possible.  The advantage of using the arrow keys is that they are intuitive 
commands, going up and down.  The advantage of using the SPACEBAR and 
BACKSPACE keys is that you don't need to move your hands from the home 
position on the keyboard.  

You can browse through the function list category by category (instead of 
function by function) using the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys on the computer 
keyboard.  You can move directly from mode to mode by pressing CONTROL-PAGE UP 
or CONTROL-PAGE DOWN.  The modes are Communication, Review, Screen, Keyboard, 
Braille, and Global.  

When you find the function you want to add to your macro, press the ENTER key 
on the computer keyboard or on Power Braille 40 or Navigator.  Screen Power 
returns you to the "Define Macro" screen, where you will see your macro 
statement listed as the new statement number 3.  

When you have completed all the statements in a macro, don't forget to set a 
hotkey to trigger the macro.  For example, if you are defining Macro 10, you 
should set a hotkey for the function "Execute Macro 10."  Also, if your macro 
has any windows, monitors, or place markers, you must set those before the 
macro will work.  


Advanced Macro Functions

Most of the macro Select Function items are identical to monitor and hotkey 
functions.  However, additional macro functions exist.  These include "If," 
"Else," "Endif," "Pass Macro Hotkey," "Send Keys," "Set Resume Rate," "Send 
Messages," "Call Macro," and "Jump to Macro."  Each is discussed in detail 
below.

The "If" statement should be paired with the "Else" statement to create 
conditional commands.  It usually ends with an "Endif" statement.  For 
example, if a red background appears in the top half of the screen, then read 
the 14th line, else read changes in the 25th line.  The "If" statement is 
thoroughly discussed below in the section titled Using "If" Statements: The If 
Condition Menu.




"Pass Macro Hotkey" Function

If you are defining a macro to work in an application program, you will often 
need to use the "Pass Macro Hotkey" function.  This function allows you to put 
an application command inside your macro, passing it along to the application 
program.  For example, if you define a macro to automate WordPerfect's spell 
checking, you should set the WordPerfect spell-checking command, CTRL-F2, as 
the hotkey to trigger your macro.  Using the example above, you would set 
CTRL-F2 as a hotkey with the function "Execute Macro 10."  

In Macro 10, the first command would be "Pass Macro Hotkey."  This passes the 
CTRL-F2 command along to the application, so that the first thing your macro 
does is to give the WordPerfect command for spell checking.  You can continue 
the macro with specific instructions of what to display so that you can check 
your spelling easily and quickly.  

In this way, the command CTRL-F2 doubles as the Screen Power hotkey to trigger 
Macro 10 and as the WordPerfect function to check spelling.


"Send Keys" Function

Select the "Send Keys" function when you want to forward one or more computer 
keys to the computer, such as F4 for indent in WordPerfect, a DOS command like 
"dir," or any other text string.  You can send almost any key, including all 
alphanumeric keys, punctuation, function keys, and cursor keys.  You cannot 
send keys such as SHIFT, CTRL, ALT, and CAPS LOCK.  If you send function keys 
or cursor keys, you must first type Screen Power's "pass-through" key, the 
forward slash (/).  This is because Screen Power uses the function and cursor 
keys in the menu system.  For example, the F2 key is Screen Power's search 
key.  If you want to send the F2 key, you must first type the / (forward 
slash) key, then type the F2 key.  If you want to send the F2 key twice, type 
a / before each occurrence of the F2 key.

This differs from the "Pass Macro Hotkey" command.  "Pass Macro Hotkey" can 
forward only the key that triggers the macro, while "Send Keys" forwards 
whatever keys you designate in the macro.  You don't need to designate the 
"Pass Macro Hotkey" key, because it is always the trigger key.  You do need to 
designate the "Send Keys" key or keys.  The "Pass Macro Hotkey" is usually the 
first command in the macro, while the "Send Keys" command is usually somewhere 
in the middle of the macro.


"Set Resume Rate" Function

This function controls how long Screen Power waits after passing a key (set 
through the "Pass Macro Hotkey" or "Send Keys" functions) before executing the 
next command in the macro.  The values are 1 through 9.  No resume rate is set 
in default mode.  The higher the number, the


longer the macro waits before resuming its next command.  Once you set the 
resume rate, it stays set through the macro, then defaults back to an 
undefined state as soon as the macro ends.  If you use the "Call Macro" or 
"Jump to Macro" functions, you are still working within your first macro, so 
the resume rate holds.  If you use the "Execute Macro" command, the resume 
rate does not stay, because you are leaving the current macro permanently when 
you use the "execute" command.


"Send Messages" Function

Select the "Send Messages" function to enter a message string to send to the 
braille display.  


"Call Macro" and "Jump to Macro" Functions

While you are in a macro, you can execute another macro.  This is a form of 
branching.  Two functions exist to execute a macro from within a macro.  One 
is "Jump To Macro."  When you insert this function into a macro, you are 
leaving the first macro permanently-you're not coming back.  

The second function is to temporarily leave the first macro, execute a second 
macro, then return to the first macro where you left off.  This is the "Call 
Macro" function.  When you call a macro, you are executing it from within your 
first macro.  This is equivalent to the DOS "call" statement you can use in 
batch files.  There is almost no limit to the number of Call Macro or Jump to 
Macro statements you can use in a macro.  

Warning!  It is possible to have a macro that calls a macro that calls the 
          original macro.  This is called "recursion" or "circular reference."  
          It may also be called an endless loop.  You should avoid this type 
          of macro definition.  To break out of this type of loop, press any 
          key (except ALT, CTRL, or SHIFT.)  However, if you use an endless 
          loop, it may hang up your computer before you get a chance to break 
          out of it.  You will then need to reboot your computer.


Using "If" Statements: The If Condition Menu

When you select the "If" statement, Screen Power takes you to the Macro If 
Condition menu.  The options and procedures to configure this menu are 
identical to those in the Monitor String Method menu.  This is because an If 
statement is looking for something on the screen-usually either text or 
attributes.  So do monitors.  So the If statement is like a special type of 
monitoring.  This type only monitors when triggered by an If statement in a 
macro, as opposed to a standard monitor that monitors automatically, all the 
time.  We thoroughly discuss the items


below both here and in the "Monitors" section of this Reference Guide.  The 
Macro If Condition menu has four options:

      L:  Location Options
      M:  Method Options
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

These options are identical to those in other menus.  The Location menu 
contains the following options:

      C:  Column
      R:  Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

This menu has the same options has the Location menu in the Monitors menu.  
Set the row and column coordinates of the first character for the macro If 
statement.  Then go back to the Macro If Condition menu, then to the Method 
Options menu.  Its selections are:

      T:  Text String
      A:  Attribute
      B:  Both Text and Attributes

These menu options are identical to those in the Method section of the 
Monitors menu.  Select Text String if you want the macro to find text.  Screen 
Power prompts you to enter the text string.  After you enter the text string, 
Screen Power takes you to the Macro Monitor Text String Negating Menu, where 
you can select Yes to negate the string or No to use the string as it is.  If 
you select Yes, it means you want Screen Power to act if it DOES NOT find the 
text string you just specified.  Select Attribute if you want the macro to 
find a screen color or video attribute (highlighting or blinking).  Screen 
Power first prompts you to enter an Attribute Counter.  The Attribute Counter 
is how many character spaces your attribute must appear in.  You can set up to 
20 characters.  Screen Power then takes you directly to the Attribute menu.  
These Attribute menu selections are identical to those in the Windows/Soft 
Cursor Tracking/Method/Attribute sub-menu:

      F:  Foreground
      B:  Background
      H:  Highlight
      K:  Blinking
      N:  Negating
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select F if the attribute occurs in the foreground of the computer screen.  
Select B if it is a background attribute.  Foreground and background


selections each lead you to another sub-menu of all the possible color 
choices.  They are:  

      B:  Black
      U:  Blue
      G:  Green
      C:  Cyan
      R:  Red
      M:  Magenta
      N:  Brown
      W:  White
      I:  Ignore

The default is Ignore.  You can also select Blinking or Highlight (you can 
monitor both if needed).  The defaults are Ignore for both attributes.  
Highlight and Blinking each lead you to a menu where you can select Y to 
activate the attribute, N if you want to deactivate it, and I if you want to 
ignore it.  

Select N for Negating if you want to select the absence of a particular 
attribute instead of its presence.  The choices here are Yes and No.  The 
default is No, or Attribute Negating Off.  

Select Show from the Attribute menu to display your macro attribute settings.  
Then go back to the Macro If Condition menu with ESC or Q.  You can check all 
your settings by selecting S for Show.  


Margin Bell Options (M)

This item appears in the Screen Options menu.  Its options are:

      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      C:  Column
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

The default is Disabled.  Choose Enable if you want Screen Power to set a bell 
sound whenever you reach the right margin on your screen, rather like the bell 
sound typewriters issue at the right margin.  Choose Disable if you do not 
want to be notified when you reach the margin.  You must tell Screen Power 
where the right margin is.  Use the Column selection to do this, entering a 
number no greater than 80.  


Menu System

Screen Power uses a sophisticated menu system to select and activate commands.  
Activate the menu system with CTRL-V.  

Use the following Power Braille 40 panel keys in the menu system:



Left rocker bar UP                  Move up in menu choices
Left rocker bar DOWN                Move down in menu choices
Convex key                          Select menu item
Concave key                         Return to previous menu level
Convex & concave keys               Activate on-line help

If you have Navigator hardware, use the following panel keys in the menu 
system:

Left panel UP key                   Move up in menu choices
Left panel DOWN key                 Move down in menu choices
LEFT execute key                    Select menu item
RIGHT execute key                   Return to previous menu level
LEFT & RIGHT execute keys           Activate on-line help

You can also use the following computer keyboard keys in the menu system:

DOWN ARROW or SPACEBAR              Move down in menu choices
UP ARROW or BACKSPACE               Move up in menu choices
ENTER                               Select menu item
ESC                                 Return to previous menu level
CTRL-Q                              Quit menu system
F1                                  Activate on-line help system

We recommend using the panel keys when you are in the menu system because you 
can make your selections and read the changes on the braille display without 
moving your hands from the braille display.

If you prefer to use the computer keyboard, note that although the UP ARROW 
and DOWN ARROW keys are intuitive commands (that is, they go up and down along 
with the menu items), using the SPACEBAR and BACKSPACE keys means you don't 
need to move your hands from the home position on the computer keyboard.  
Choose whichever method better suits your needs.  

You can explore any menu screen using the right rocker bar on Power Braille 40 
or the Right Panel UP and DOWN keys on Navigator.

You can select menu items using the direct select method by entering the 
letter code for the menu item (for example, type B for Braille Options, or K 
for Braille Keyboard Options).  Most menus have sub-menus and many even have 
sub-sub-menus.  Most menus also have a Q choice for Quit.  

Many menu functions have Select Function screens.  These screens display the 
Screen Power function along with other information, depending on the menu 
system (for example, the Hotkeys screen also displays the hotkey assignment).  
You can use the same navigation keys in these screens as in the rest of the 
menu system.  PAGE DOWN and PAGE UP scroll through groups of functions, and 
HOME and END go directly to the end and beginning of the function list.  



In addition, you can use the F2 key, Screen Power's Search Key, to select a 
function for a hotkey or macro.  You can also use the F2 key to display a 
freeze-frame of your last application screen to use when setting screen 
locations or boundaries.  


Modes

Screen Power Integrated contains five modes of operation.  They are 
Communication, Review, Screen, Keyboard, and Braille.  Each has a 
corresponding menu with sub-menus.  

Most of the time, you will be using Screen Power in Communication mode.  You 
could call this "live action mode."  In this mode, you can enter text, 
activate Screen Power's menu system, and execute Screen Power commands through 
hotkeys and macros.  Screen Power has several other modes.  Review mode lets 
you review all areas of the screen without fear of accidentally changing or 
erasing anything.  You cannot enter data in Review mode.  Activate Review mode 
with CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER.  Exit Review mode and return to live action with the 
ENTER key.  See the entry in this documentation on "Review Mode" for more 
information and commands.  

Use Screen mode options to control how information is spoken when it is 
displayed on the screen.  Use Keyboard mode options to control how keystrokes 
are spoken as you enter them (as word or character at a time or silent).  Use 
Braille mode options to configure aspects of the braille display, braille 
feedback, and braille processing, including braille place markers and windows.  


Monitor Rate Options (M)

This item is in the Global Options menu.  Its options are Monitor Rate 1 
through Monitor Rate 9, Show, and Quit.  The default is Monitor Rate 2.  
Select 1 to change the Monitor Rate to 1, 3 to change it to 3, and so on.  The 
fastest rate is 1, which is almost instantaneous; the slowest is 9, which is 
quite long.  Monitors check the monitored area (the boundaries you set) at a 
regular rate.  They do this by putting everything else on hold while they look 
for changes.  The more often they do that, the faster their rate is.  

This selection determines how fast Screen Power monitors the screen for the 
changes you have selected.  If Screen Power is monitoring very quickly, but 
your computer is very slow, Screen Power may complete its look at the screen 
before all the changes take place.  In this case, you should set the monitor 
rate to a higher (slower) number.  The reverse is also true: if you have the 
monitor rate very slow and your computer is fast, Screen Power may not 
complete its monitoring before the screen changes again.  The monitor rate has 
some flexibility built in to it, so you will probably not need to change it.  
It is usually satisfactory for


286, 386, and 486 computers ranging from 8 mHz to at least 40 mHz.  We 
recommend that you not change the default setting unless you know you are 
experiencing problems.  


Monitor String Menu (S)

You can only access the Monitor String menu through the Location menu, which 
is reached by selecting S for String method in the Monitor Method menu.  The 
Monitor String menu has the following options:

      T:  Text String
      A:  Attribute
      B:  Both Text String and Attribute

Select Text String if you want to monitor text.  Screen Power prompts you to 
enter the text string.  After you enter the string, Screen Power takes you to 
the Monitor String Negating Menu, where you can select Yes to negate the 
string, that is, to monitor for the absence of the text string instead of its 
presence.  Select No if you want to monitor for the presence of the text 
string you specified.  This is the default.  

Select Attribute if you want to monitor a screen color or video attribute 
(highlighting or blinking).  Screen Power first prompts you to enter an 
Attribute Counter.  When you set an attribute to monitor, you must tell Screen 
Power how many character spaces your attribute must appear in.  You can 
monitor up to 20 character spaces, so you should enter a number from 1 to 20.  
Screen Power then takes you directly to the Attribute menu.  These Attribute 
menu selections are identical to those in the Attribute menu in the Soft 
Cursor Tracking Options when you set a window:

      F:  Foreground
      B:  Background
      H:  Highlight
      K:  Blinking
      N:  Negating
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select F if the attribute you need to monitor occurs in the foreground of the 
computer screen.  Select B if you need to monitor a background attribute.  
Foreground and background selections each lead you to another sub-menu of all 
the possible color choices.  They are:  



      B:  Black
      U:  Blue
      G:  Green
      C:  Cyan
      R:  Red
      M:  Magenta
      N:  Brown
      W:  White
      I:  Ignore

The default is Ignore.  You can also select Blinking or Highlight (you can 
monitor both if needed).  The defaults are Ignore for both attributes.  
Highlight and Blinking each lead you to a menu where you can select Y to 
activate the attribute, N if you want to deactivate it, and I if you want to 
ignore it.  

Select N for Negating if you want to monitor the absence of a particular 
attribute instead of its presence.  The choices here are Yes and No.  The 
default is No, or Attribute Negating Off.  

Select Show from the Attribute menu to display your monitor attribute 
settings.  Then go back to the Monitor menu with ESC or Q.  

Monitors (O)

This item is in the Communication Options menu.  When you select Monitors, the 
system prompts you to enter a monitor number.  You can set up to 100 monitors. 


What Are Monitors?

A monitor is a watchdog over areas of your computer screen.  Monitors build on 
and expand the concept of windows, so if you do not thoroughly understand this 
concept, you should review it before you get involved with monitors.  Monitors 
watch for pre-defined areas, characters, or attributes that may appear on the 
screen.  Whenever the characters or attributes appear, or whenever changes 
occur in the pre-set area, the Monitor system performs your pre-set function.  
For example, you can monitor the beginning of line 25 of the WordPerfect 
screen so that if the word "Typeover" appears, Screen Power will automatically 
move the braille display there.  This can be helpful if you, like many people, 
accidentally hit the INSERT key and unexpectedly switch WordPerfect from 
Insert to Typeover mode. 

If you like to enter text in braille mode, you will have the braille keyboard 
enabled.  However, when you use WordPerfect's List Files or spell-checker, you 
may want to be in QWERTY keyboard mode.  You can set a monitor to 
automatically disable braille keyboard mode whenever Screen Power detects 
highlighted red background in the upper half of the screen.  This background 
is used in many WordPerfect


functions, including spell-checking and List Files.  You can set another 
monitor to enable braille keyboard whenever it detects the return of the 
standard WordPerfect editing screen.  This could be done by monitoring the 
right side of line 25 to look for the characters "Doc 1" or "Doc 2."  When 
those characters appear, Screen Power would switch you back to Grade 2 braille 
mode.  

If you want to do several things at once, such as enable the braille keyboard, 
switch to Grade 2 braille, and display the window position in the last four 
characters of the braille display, you should use a macro.  Screen Power's 
flexible programming allows you to set a monitor to activate a macro.  Your 
"Doc 1" monitor can trigger a macro to do the above tasks.  See the "Macros" 
entry in this Reference Guide for detailed information about setting and using 
macros.  

Monitors can also take you to a place marker.  You can set a place marker 
where WordPerfect puts the recommended spellings in its spell-checker.  Then 
your monitor can go to that place marker.  See the "Place Markers" entry in 
this Reference Guide for detailed information.  


Setting a Monitor

After you enter a monitor number from 1 to 100 after the monitor prompt, 
Screen Power displays the following monitor selections:

      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      M:  Method
      F:  Function
      C:  Comment
      S:  Show
      R:  Reset to Undefine
      Q:  Quit

Select E to enable your monitor.  The default is disabled.  You must set the 
method and function for each monitor you enable.  Select M to set the method.  
Two monitoring methods exist: Region and String.  


Region Method (R)

The region method asks you to define a rectangular area of the screen.  Do 
this via the Boundary menu.  This Boundary menu is identical to the one in the 
Windows sub-menu.  It contains the following items:



      E:  Entire Screen
      L:  Left Column
      T:  Top Row
      R:  Right Column
      B:  Bottom Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select E to monitor the entire screen area.  Use the other four options, Left 
Column, Top Row, Right Column, and Bottom Row, to set the four corners of your 
rectangular monitor area.  The default is "Entire Screen," with all four 
corners "Undefined" until you set boundaries.  The Show selection displays the 
boundaries of the current monitor.  You must set boundaries for your monitor 
if you want it to be something other than the full screen.  When you finish 
setting boundaries, you can check them with the Show selection.  You must then 
return to the Monitor menu so that you can set the monitor function, i.e., 
what Screen Power should do when it detects a change in the region you have 
just set.  


String Method (S)

Select S if you want to monitor particular screen or text changes (called a 
string in this menu), rather than just any change in a given screen area.  
Screen Power asks you first to set the location of the string (through the 
Location menu), then set the type of string (through the Monitor String menu).  
This is one atypical instance in which Screen Power takes you directly from 
one sub-menu to another.

The Location menu has the following options:

      C:  Column
      R:  Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Use this menu to set the row and column to monitor.  Remember that you will 
look for particular screen or text changes beginning with this area.  After 
you set the column and row, check your settings with Show, then press Q or ESC 
to exit this menu.  Screen Power takes you directly to the Monitor String 
menu.

The Monitor String menu has the following options:

      T:  Text String
      A:  Attribute
      B:  Both Text String and Attribute

Select Text String if you want to monitor text.  Screen Power prompts you to 
enter the text string.  After you enter the string, Screen Power takes you to 
the Monitor String Negating Menu, where you can select Yes to negate the 
string, that is, to monitor for the absence of the text


string instead of its presence.  Select No if you want to monitor for the 
presence of the text string you specified.  This is the default.  

Select Attribute if you want to monitor a screen color or video attribute 
(highlighting or blinking).  Screen Power first prompts you to enter an 
Attribute Counter.  Enter a number from 1 to 20.  Screen Power then takes you 
directly to the Attribute menu.  These Attribute menu selections are identical 
to those in the Attribute menu in the Soft Cursor Tracking Options when you 
set a window:

      F:  Foreground
      B:  Background
      H:  Highlight
      K:  Blinking
      N:  Negating
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select F if the attribute you need to monitor occurs in the foreground of the 
computer screen.  Select B if you need to monitor a background attribute.  
Foreground and background selections each lead you to another sub-menu of all 
the possible color choices.  They are:  

      B:  Black
      U:  Blue
      G:  Green
      C:  Cyan
      R:  Red
      M:  Magenta
      N:  Brown
      W:  White
      I:  Ignore

The default is Ignore.  You can also select Blinking or Highlight (you can 
monitor both if needed).  The defaults are Ignore for both attributes.  
Highlight and Blinking each lead you to a menu where you can select Y to 
activate the attribute, N if you want to deactivate it, and I if you want to 
ignore it.  

Select N for Negating if you want to monitor the absence of a particular 
attribute instead of its presence.  The choices here are Yes and No.  The 
default is No, or Attribute Negating Off.  

Select Show from the Attribute menu to display your monitor attribute 
settings.  Then go back to the Monitor menu with ESC or Q.  You can check all 
your monitor settings (the monitor number, whether it's enabled or disabled, 
the method, and all attribute settings) by selecting S for Show.  The Show 
Status screen also tells you what function your monitor performs.  If you have 
not yet set a function, this will be set to Undefined.  Once you set a 
function, the function will be shown here.  




Function (F)

After you set the monitor method, you must set a function.  Set the function 
you want Screen Power to execute when it detects the changes you are 
monitoring (you can actually set the function before the method if you want).  
When you select F for Function, Screen Power takes you to the Select Function 
screen, where you choose from over 1400 items (including functions for 100 
windows, monitors, macros, and place markers in Communication and other 
modes).  These items include "Spell Next Word," "Say Numbers as Pairs," "Go to 
Place Marker," "Enable Grade 2 Braille," "Enter Review Mode," "Execute Macro," 
and many others.  You can even set your monitor function to enable or disable 
another monitor, thus daisy-chaining monitors.  Step through the options until 
you come to the one you want.  

You may enter a comment string if you want.  Comments strings may be up to 20 
characters.  This may help you distinguish one monitor from another and 
remember why you set the monitor.  The comment string only appears in the Show 
Status screen.  


Multiple Line Display Options (M)

This item pertains to the refreshable braille display.  It is in the Grade 2 
Braille Display Options menu of the Braille Options menu. The options are Y: 
Yes and N: No.  Select Yes to have more than one line display on the braille 
window.  The default is to show single lines.  With this item selected, Screen 
Power will bring characters from the next computer line onto the current 
braille display to fill up as much of the braille display as possible.  You 
can think of this new feature as a continuous braille reading mode.  

This option is tied to two other options: "Grade 2 Braille Display Options" 
and "Line Break Options" (which is the other selection in the Grade 2 Braille 
Display Options menu).  When you Enable Grade 2 braille, the braille will 
probably take up less than a full line.  Therefore, you can select to display 
more than one line at a time on your braille display.  When you display more 
than one line, you will need something to tell you that one line is ending and 
another is beginning.  This is the line break character you set using the 
"Line Break Options" selection.  


Navigation Commands

You can customize Screen Power's navigation commands by assigning them to 
hotkeys on the Power Braille 40 (or Navigator) front panel keys and the 
computer keyboard keys.  You can assign computer keyboard hotkeys in QWERTY 
mode and in braille mode.  If you have a BrailleMate connected to Power 
Braille 40, you can also assign BrailleMate hotkeys.  



When you load Screen Power for the first time, you will find that we have 
already programmed quite a few navigation commands into each of the hotkey 
types.  Feel free to add to them or change them.  Use the  "Show" menu 
selection for each hotkey type to find the default hotkey command assignments.  
Then use the "Add" hotkey selection to add new ones.  If you want to change an 
existing key assignment, you must first delete the existing hotkey, then add 
the new one.  See the various hotkey menu entries in this Menu Reference Guide 
for more information about setting hotkeys.  All the navigation functions can 
be used in monitors and macros, also.

You can save your navigation (and other) hotkeys in a special file called an 
environment file.  Do this through the File Options sub-menu in the Global 
Options menu.  Refer to the entries titled "Environment File Options" and 
"Default File Options" for instructions and more information about saving and 
using environments.  


Number Options (N)

This item controls how Screen Power verbalizes numbers.  It is in the Verbal 
Options sub-menu in the Communication mode, Review mode, and Screen mode menus 
(the Verbal Options menu in Keyboard mode is different and does not contain 
this item).  Its options are:

      D:  Digit
      P:  Pair
      F:  Full
      W:  Word

The default in Communication and Review mode is to say numbers as Pairs.  The 
default in Screen mode is to say numbers as Digits.  The Numbers option 
determines the way in which numbers are spoken when text is read.  Choose 
Digit if you want Screen Power to pronounce a four-digit number, such as 
"1234," as "one two three four."  Choose Pair if you want Screen Power to say 
"twelve thirty-four."  This mode is most useful for pronouncing dates.  

Full and Word are rather similar.  Use Full mode to separate a series of 
numbers that has (for example) commas between each number.  Word mode will 
include the commas as part of the number. Full mode applies to any number 
series with separators such as decimal points, commas, or dashes.   Their 
differences are best illustrated in examples with decimal points or commas.  
Decimal points and commas can be used either as parts of one number or as a 
means to separate a series of numbers.  

The number 1,234 (with a comma) in Word mode is pronounced as "one thousand 
two hundred thirty four."  You would not use Full mode to say this number 
because Full mode would make the number into a series of two numbers separated 
by a comma.  The first number would


be the number 1.  The second number would be the number 234.  Therefore, in 
Full mode 1,234 would be spoken as "one comma two hundred thirty four."  

If you have several numbers, such as a list of test scores or temperatures, 
separated by commas, such as 100,95,58,83,89, you should use Full mode.  In 
Full mode, this series will be spoken as "one hundred comma ninety five comma 
fifty eight comma eighty three comma eighty nine."  Word mode would try to 
make sense of this as one number, with limited success depending on the actual 
numbers in the series.  

Use Word mode if you have a number that includes a decimal point, such as 
123.45.  Word mode pronounces this number as "one hundred twenty three point 
four five," which is traditionally correct.  Full mode would try to make the 
number into a series of two numbers separated by the period as a delimiter.  
Therefore, the number would be pronounced "one hundred twenty three period 
forty five."  


Panel Keys Hotkeys (P)

This item is in the Braille Options menu.  Its menu items are:  

      A:  Add
      D:  Delete
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Panel Keys are the keys on the front and top of the refreshable braille 
display unit.  


Description of Panel Keys

On the Power Braille 40 hardware, six keys on the front and top comprise the 
panel keys.  The two keys on the top panel to the left and right of the 
braille display are referred to as the left button key and right button key.  
In default mode, they move the braille display left or right 40 cells at a 
time.  On the front panel are two rocker switches, called the left rocker 
switch and right rocker switch.  In default mode, the left rocker switch moves 
the cursor up or down one line.  The right rocker switch moves the braille 
display up or down one line without affecting the cursor.  There are two keys 
between the rocker switches.  The left key is convex, that is, it bulges out.  
The right key is concave, that is, it curves in.  We call these keys the 
convex key and the concave key.  In default mode, the convex key functions as 
a computer ENTER key.  The concave key is used to link or unlink the braille 
display with the computer cursor.  

On the Navigator hardware, two groups of five keys provide mirror images of 
one another.  Four in each group are oval-shaped.  The fifth key in each group 
is a small round button toward the middle of the


braille display unit.  The keys in the left group of four are referred to as 
Cursor Panel keys, because in default mode they are equivalent to the four 
arrow keys on a computer keyboard.  They are called Cursor Panel L, Cursor 
Panel R, Cursor Panel U, and Cursor Panel D.  The right group of four oval 
keys is called the Display Panel group, because in default mode they perform 
movements that affect only the braille display, not the cursor.  They move the 
braille window up or down a line or left or right one braille window width.   
These keys are called Display Panel L, R, U, and D.  The round buttons are 
known as Execute keys; Screen Power labels them Left Execute and Right 
Execute.  The Left Execute key functions as a computer ENTER key.  The Right 
Execute key is used to link or unlink the braille display with the computer 
cursor.  


Setting Panel Key Functions

All the default panel key functions are hotkeys.  The key functions listed 
above were set through the panel key hotkey menu.  We have set other hotkeys 
for combinations of panel keys, such as pressing the convex and concave keys 
at the same time (this is a hotkey to toggle Grade 2 on and off).  

You can change the functions that have already been set and set new functions 
for new panel key combinations through the Panel Keys hotkey menu.  To change 
an existing panel key function, you must first delete the current function 
assignment, then add the new assignment.  

There are two kinds of panel key hotkeys.  One is a hotkey that executes a 
Screen Power function.  An example of this is the concave key on Power Braille 
40 and the right execute key on Navigator, each of which is a hotkey to 
execute the Screen Power function "Link/Unlink Braille Display to Cursor."  
The second type of panel key hotkey is one that duplicates a QWERTY keystroke 
command.  An example of this is the convex key on Power Braille 40 and the 
left execute key on Navigator, each of which is a hotkey to duplicate the 
QWERTY ENTER key.  

Note: For more information about hotkeys, refer to the "Hotkeys" entry in this 
      Reference Guide.

To add either type of panel key hotkey, select A for Add.  Screen Power will 
prompt you to enter a panel key.  You must press the actual panel key (or key 
combination) you want to assign.  Screen Power then presents you with another 
menu with the following selections:

      K:  Key
      F:  Function

This is the menu from which you select one of the hotkey types.  To set a 
hotkey to execute a Screen Power function, select F for Function.  To set a 
hotkey to duplicate a QWERTY key combination, select K for Key.




Function Menu

When you select F for Function, Screen Power takes you to the Select Function 
screen.  Here you can select from over 1400 Screen Power functions (including 
functions for 100 each windows, monitors, place markers, and macros), such as 
Link/Unlink Display with Cursor, Enable/Disable Grade 2 Braille, Go to Place 
Marker, Enable Monitor, Execute Macro, and many others.  

You can use the F2 key to search for and select your hotkey function.  Press 
the F2 key and then enter a word, words, or partial word from the function you 
want.  Screen Power will take you to the first occurrence of that word in its 
function list.  It is usually sufficient to type the first word to find your 
function.  You can press the TAB key to go to the next occurrence of the text 
string; press SHIFT-TAB to go to the previous occurrence.  Press ENTER to 
select the function.  Press ESC to abort at any time.  See the "Search" entry 
in this Reference Guide for more information about using the F2 key.  

When you have selected the function with the ENTER key, Screen Power takes you 
back to the Hotkey menu.  


Key Menu

When you select K for Key, Screen Power takes you to the Special Key menu.  
Use the Special Key menu to select which "special key" you will use, that is, 
CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, or a combination of those keys.  The special key selections 
are:

      1:  Alt
      2:  Control
      3:  Shift
      4:  Alt-Control
      5:  Alt-Shift
      6:  Control-Shift
      7:  None

With these different special keys to use along with many of the QWERTY keys, 
you have a virtually unlimited supply of hotkeys to define and use.  

After you select which special key to use, Screen Power prompts you to enter a 
key.  This is the key you will press along with the special key you just 
selected.  If you want the hotkey to be CTRL-ALT-I, choose 4 from the Special 
Key menu, then enter the letter I.  Screen Power then takes you back to the 
Panel Key Hotkey menu.  Remember that when you set this type of hotkey, you 
are setting a QWERTY key alone or with a special key to execute a QWERTY 
(application program or DOS) command.  

Other Panel Key Hotkey Selections




Select S for Show to step through all the hotkeys and their functions.  Select 
D to Delete a hotkey.  Screen Power will bring up a Status screen that 
displays the active BrailleMate hotkeys.  Step through them using the DOWN 
ARROW (or SPACEBAR), UP ARROW (or BACKSPACE), HOME, and END keys.  When you 
come to the one you want to delete, press the ENTER key.  

You can use F2 in the Hotkey Show or Delete menus to search for a hotkey 
assignment.  From within Show or Delete, press F2.  Screen Power will first 
need a special key (CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, or a combination), so it will display 
the Special Key menu.  Press a number from 1 to 7 to correspond to one of the 
seven special key selections.  Screen Power displays the "enter key" screen.  
Press the key to search for.  Screen Power will take you to that key and read 
the function assigned to it.  

For example, if you want to delete the hotkey you think you have assigned as 
CTRL-SHIFT-K, you can use F2 to search for the hotkey.  After you choose 
Delete in the Hotkey menu, press F2.  Screen Power takes you to the Special 
Key menu.  Since you are looking for a hotkey assignment that uses the 
CTRL-SHIFT key combination, enter the number 6 at the Special Key menu.  Next 
press the K key in response to the Edit screen's "enter key" prompt.  Unless 
you have changed the default hotkey assignment, Screen Power will tell you 
that the function assigned to this hotkey is "say and spell current word" in 
Communication mode.  You can now select to delete the key (by pressing ENTER) 
or abort the delete process (by pressing ESCape).

For more information about hotkeys, including a definition and more examples, 
please refer to the "Hotkeys" entry in this Reference Guide.  You can also 
refer to the "Hotkeys" sections in Chapter 2 of the User Guide.  


Pause Options (P)

This item pertains to speech only.  It appears in the Punctuation Options 
sub-menu of the Verbal Options menu in the Communication mode, Review mode, 
and Screen mode menus (the Verbal Options menu in Keyboard mode is different 
and does not contain this item).  Its options are Y: Yes and N: No.  The 
default is Yes.  This means Screen Power will insert a pause after each 
punctuation mark to produce a more natural-sounding speech flow.  When working 
at the DOS level or in other situations when text is not in sentence format, 
many users prefer to change this setting to No.  Most users keep the setting 
at Yes for all situations in which they must read for content.  

Place Markers (P)




The item appears in the Braille Options menu and the Review Mode menu.  When 
you select Place Markers, the system prompts you to enter a place marker 
number.  You can set up to 100 place markers in each mode for a total of 200.  

Note: In the Braille Options menu, select Place Markers with the letter "M" 
      instead of "P."


What Are Place Markers?

A place marker is a way to mark a place on the screen so you can refer to it 
later.  A place marker is a fixed set of screen coordinates.  Think of it as a 
tag you place somewhere important, somewhere you will want to come back to.  
For example, if you use a data base program or some other program that 
requires you to fill in blanks on the screen, place markers will probably come 
in handy.  You may have a field titled "Name" and another titled "Address."  
If you want to check what is already in the "Name" field, you can set a place 
marker at the first character of the field.  You can then go to this screen 
position at any time with one command.  

After you enter a place marker number from 1 to 100 at the Place Markers menu 
selection, Screen Power displays the following selections:

      L:  Location 
      C:  Comment
      S:  Show
      R:  Reset to Undefine
      Q:  Quit


Setting a Place Marker

To set a place marker, you must tell Screen Power what row and column position 
it resides at.  Screen Power stores the row and column coordinates of this 
place.  Select L to set the place marker coordinates.  Screen Power displays a 
menu with the following selections:

      C:  Column
      R:  Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

You must set both a column and a row number.  The column range is 1-80; the 
row range is 1-25.  Select S to show the coordinates.  

You can use the F2 key if you want to select the location from the application 
screen.  After you press F2, Screen Power displays a freeze-frame of your last 
active screen.  Move the cursor to the desired location, then press L for 
Location, or press C and R to enter the column


and row coordinates separately.  Press ENTER to confirm your selection.  Press 
ESC to abort at any time.  

You may enter a comment string if you want.  Comments strings may be up to 20 
characters.  This may help you distinguish one place marker from another and 
remember why you set the place marker.  The comment string only appears in the 
Show Status screen.  Select R if you want to cancel the current place marker 
settings.  This resets the place marker to an undefined state.

You can assign hotkeys to go to place markers for quick access.  For instance, 
you could set a hotkey to assign the task "Go to Place Marker 1" to the key 
combination CTRL-ALT-1.  You could assign the task "Go to Place Marker 2" to 
the key combination CTRL-ALT-2, and so on.   You can also make place markers 
part of monitors and macros.  For instance, you can set a monitor function so 
that when WordPerfect's spell-checker displays a misspelled word, the braille 
display moves to a pre-set place marker at the position of the first spelling 
correction.  


Punctuation Options (P)

This item controls how (and if) punctuation is spoken.  It appears in the 
Verbal Options sub-menu of the Communication mode, Review mode, and Screen 
mode menus (the Verbal Options menu in Keyboard mode is different and does not 
contain this item).  Its options are:

      I:  Ignore
      A:  All
      M:  Most
      S:  Some
      R:  Repeat Punctuation Options
      P:  Pause Options

The default is All.  With this setting, all punctuation is pronounced.  Select 
Ignore to have Screen Power pronounce no punctuation.  Select Most to have 
Screen Power pronounce everything but periods, question marks, and exclamation 
marks.  Select Some to have Screen Power pronounce everything but periods, 
question marks, exclamation marks, colons, semi-colons, single quotes, left 
and right parentheses, left and right brackets, and left and right braces.  

Use the Repeat Punctuation Options to tell Screen Power how to handle repeated 
punctuation symbols, such as three asterisks in a row.  You can have Screen 
Power say repeated punctuation once, twice, three times, four times, or tell 
you how many of them there are.  The default in Communication and Review mode 
is twice.  The default in Screen mode is Say All Repeated Punctuation.  See 
the entry titled "Repeat Punctuation Options" for more information. 



Use Pause Options to tell Screen Power whether to pause at punctuation or not.  
The default in Communication and Review mode is Yes.  The default in Screen 
mode is No.  Most people prefer pauses at punctuation when reading for 
context, as this produces a more natural-sounding speech flow.  See the entry 
titled "Pause Options" for more information.  

Quit (Q)

Most menus have a Quit option.  The option will read "Quit Communication 
Menu," "Quit Window Menu," "Quit Dictionary Menu," etc.  Pressing Q for Quit 
always takes you to the next higher (or previous) menu.  

If you want to Quit the menu system with one command, use CTRL-Q.

Region Method (R)

This item is a selection in the Monitors menu in Communication mode.  Use the 
Region method if you want to be notified of any change in a particular screen 
area.  The region method asks you to define a rectangular area of the screen.  
Do this via the Boundary menu.  See the entries titled "Monitors" and 
"Boundary Menu" for complete information about using the Region method.  


Repeat Graphic Character Options (R)

This item pertains to speech only.  It is in the Graphic Character Options 
sub-menu of the Verbal Options menu in Communication mode, Review mode, and 
Screen mode (the Verbal Options menu in Keyboard mode is different and does 
not contain this item).  Its options are:

      A:  All
      1:  Once
      2:  Twice
      3:  Three Times
      4:  Four Times
      C:  Count

The default is twice.  Use Repeat Character Options to tell Screen Power how 
to handle repeated upper-ASCII graphic symbols. Often you will encounter a 
long series of graphic characters used as a border.  You do not want to hear 
"graphic" spoken 70 times, but you may want to know that there are 70 of them.  
In this case, select Count.  Screen Power will say "seventy graphic."  You can 
instead have Screen Power say repeat graphic characters once, twice, three, or 
four times.  For example, if you select the default setting, Twice, Screen 
Power will say "graphic graphic" whether there are two, ten, or 80 graphic 
characters.  This just lets you know there are more than one graphic 
characters.  You can also select All to have Screen Power read each repeated 
graphic character,


regardless of how many there are.  In the above example, Screen Power would 
say the word "graphic" 70 times. 


Repeat Punctuation Options (R)

This item pertains to speech only.  It is in the Punctuation Options sub-menu 
of the Verbal Options menu in Communication mode, Review mode, and Screen mode 
(the Verbal Options menu in Keyboard mode is different and does not contain 
this item).  Its options are:

      A:  All
      1:  Once
      2:  Twice
      3:  Three Times
      4:  Four Times
      C:  Count

The default in Communication and Review mode is twice.  The default in Screen 
mode is to Say All Repeated Punctuation.  Use Repeat Punctuation Options to 
tell Screen Power how to handle repeated punctuation symbols, such as three 
asterisks in a row or an entire line of dashes.  Often you will encounter a 
long series of identical punctuation marks used as a border or to divide one 
section of text from another.  You do not want to hear "dash" spoken 70 times, 
but you may want to know that there are 70 of them.  In this case, select 
Count.  Screen Power will say "seventy dash."  You can instead have Screen 
Power say repeat punctuation once, twice, three, or four times.  For example, 
if you select the default setting, Twice, Screen Power will say "dash dash" 
whether there are two, ten, or 80 dashes.  This just lets you know there are 
more than one of a given punctuation mark.  You can also select All to have 
Screen Power read each repeated punctuation mark, regardless of how many there 
are.  In the above example, Screen Power would say the word "dash" 70 times.  


Reset

Many Screen Power functions or menus contain a "Reset" entry.  Most of the 
time, it is called "Reset to Undefine."   Areas where this occurs include 
Windows, Monitors, Macros, and Place Markers.  Select this item if you want to 
cancel all your settings for the current window, monitor, or other item.  This 
resets them to an undefined state.  

In the Speech Options menu, the item appears as "Reset to Previous Settings."   
Select this item to set the speech settings back to their settings immediately 
before your latest changes.  

Reset to Undefine (R)




Many Screen Power functions or menus contain a "Reset to Undefine" entry.  
Areas where this occurs are Windows, Monitors, Macros, Text Searching (in 
Global Options), and Place Markers.  Select this item if you want to cancel 
all your settings for the current item.  This puts the settings back to an 
undefined state.  


Review Options (R)

This item is in the Screen Power Integrated Main Menu.  Its options are:

      A:  Set Active Window
      V:  Verbal Options
      S:  Speech Options
      L:  Line Options
      W:  Windows
      P:  Place Markers
      H:  Hotkeys
      M:  Macros
      Q:  Quit

Review mode temporarily freezes the computer screen so that nothing on it can 
be changed.  You cannot change anything on the screen while you are in Review 
mode; you can only review information on it.  Review mode lets you read 
information on the screen without fear of accidentally erasing something.  

Use this menu to set Review mode hotkeys, windows, place markers, and macros.  
These Review mode hotkeys, windows, and macros are different from those you 
set for Communication mode.  You can set 100 of each of windows, place 
markers, and macros.  You can set a Review mode hotkey for any Screen Power 
function you want.  All hotkeys, windows, monitors, and macros are saved in 
the same environment files that hold your Communication mode settings 
(accessed through the File Options sub-menu in the Global menu).  See the 
individual entries on "Hotkeys," "Windows," "Monitors," and "Macros" for 
complete information on these topics.  

You can customize many aspects of Screen Power's operation and feedback via 
the Verbal Options, Speech Options, and Line Options menus.  These entries and 
their menu selections are identical to the those in Communication and Screen 
modes.  

Verbal Options include Text Options, Capital Letter Options, Number Options, 
Punctuation Options, Graphic Character Options, Dictionary Options, and 
others.  See the "Verbal Options" entry for more information about these 
items.  Verbal Options are saved in environment files.  Speech Options are the 
traditional speech settings: Rate, Pitch, Volume, and Voice.  These items are 
saved in an a


configuration file (also accessible through the File Options sub-menu in the 
Global menu).  Line Options include Pause Options, Number Options, and Blank 
Options.  Line Options are saved in environment files.  See the "Speech 
Options" and "Line Options" entries for more information about these items.


Right Cells Past Right Edge Options (R)

This item is in the Braille Display Options menu from the Braille Options 
menu.  This is equivalent to the Gateway "Off Right" command line option 
(/OFRIGHT).  Its options are E: Enable and D: Disable.  The default is 
Disabled.  

This option lets you move the beginning of the braille display to positions up 
to the right edge of the screen.  Normally, Screen Power stops advancing the 
braille display when it gets near the right edge of the screen, because cells 
after the 80th screen position would be blank.  The "Right Cells Part Right 
Edge" option allows you to move the first cell up to even the 80th screen 
position.  The cells after the 80th screen position are blanked.  

This option is necessary for setting place markers near the right edge of the 
screen.  Then when you jump to that place marker, the braille display puts the 
place marker in the first cell of the display, where you can tell where you've 
moved.  See the entry in this Reference Guide on "Place Markers" for more 
information on this subject.  


Route Delay (R)

This item is in the Global Options menu.  You will be prompted to enter a 
number from 1 to 100.  The default is 50.  Use Route Delay if you are having 
trouble routing the system cursor to your braille window.  The higher the 
number, the more Screen Power will slow itself while routing the system 
cursor.  This will make your system more accurate but slightly slower, so 
don't change the route delay unless you are experiencing trouble with cursor 
routing.  


Screen Options (S)

This item is in the Screen Power Integrated Main Menu.  Its options are:

      E:  Echo Options
      V:  Verbal Options
      S:  Speech Options
      B:  Boundary Options
      A:  Attribute Filter Options
      I:  Silent Window Options
      M:  Margin Bell Options
      Q:  Quit



Screen mode controls how information is spoken as it is displayed on the 
screen.  Screen mode speaks everything that goes through BIOS (Basic Input 
Output System).  BIOS is used by DOS and some application programs.  Programs 
like WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 do not go through BIOS, which is why that 
information is not spoken as it appears on the screen.  Screen mode echoes 
information as it appears on the screen, where Keyboard mode echoes your 
keystrokes.  An example of Screen mode information is the filenames and 
information that scroll on the screen when you give the DOS command DIR.  

Use the Echo Options menu to enable or disable Screen mode, that is, to 
activate or silence the verbalizing of information coming through the screen 
BIOS.  You can customize many aspects of Screen Power's operation and feedback 
via the Verbal Options and Speech Options menus.  These entries and their menu 
selections are identical to the those in Communication and Review modes.  

Verbal Options include Text Options, Capital Letter Options, Number Options, 
Punctuation Options, Graphic Character Options, Dictionary Options, and 
others.  See the "Verbal Options" entry for more information about these 
items.  Verbal Options are saved in environment files.  The Speech Options 
menu is identical to that in the other three modes, and includes the 
traditional speech settings: Rate, Pitch, Volume, and Voice.  These items are 
saved in an a configuration file (also accessible through the File Options 
sub-menu in the Global menu).  

Use Boundary Options to limit the active boundaries of the screen in Screen 
mode.  Use the Attribute Filter Options menu to filter screen colors or 
attributes in or out.  These menus are identical to those in other places in 
Screen Power, including Monitors.  See the "Boundary Options" and "Attribute 
Filter Options" entries for complete information.

Silent Window Options and Margin Bell Options are both unique to Screen mode.  
Use Silent Window Options to suppress the automatic speaking of screen areas.  
If your application has a status line or clock that constantly refreshes and 
speaks to you, you can use Silent Windows to block out that area of the 
screen.  You must set boundaries for your Silent Window and you can enable or 
disable it.  See the "Silent Window Options" entry for more information.  

Use the Margin Bell Options if you want Screen Power to set a bell sound 
whenever you reach the right margin on your screen, rather like the bell sound 
typewriters issue at the right margin.  See the "Margin Bell Options" entry 
for more information.  

Search




Screen Power has extensive search capabilities.  Two important search types 
exist.  One is to search for a text string on your application screen.  
Activate this type of search from the Text Searching Options menu in the 
Global Options menu.  For complete information, refer to the "Text Searching 
Options" entry in this document.  

The other search type is for use in Screen Power's menu system.  The Search 
key in the menu system is the F2 key.  Use F2 to search for a function in the 
Hotkeys, Windows, and Macros menus.  You can also use F2 when setting an 
attribute, boundary, or screen location in the Windows, Monitors, Place 
Markers, and Soft Cursor Tracking menus.  See those entries for details about 
that use of the F2 key.  The use of the F2 key to search for a function is 
detailed below.  

Certain keys are active in all F2 functions.  

      Use the ENTER key to accept your selection.  
      Use the BACKSPACE key to delete a character.  
      Use the ESC key to abort your search activity.  
      Use the four cursor keys to move through the freeze-frame screen while 
      defining locations, boundaries, and attributes.  


Using F2 to Search for a Function

You need to select a function for all hotkeys, monitors, and macros.  You can 
use the arrow keys and PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys to do this, but searching 
through all of Screen Power's more than 1400 functions can be tedious.  The F2 
key streamlines the function selection process.  

Press F2 when prompted to select a function.  Screen Power prompts you to 
"enter search string."  You can type any characters that occur in the function 
name.  Screen Power will take you to the first occurrence of the search 
string.  For example, to search for the function, "Show Cursor Position," you 
can type the word "Show."  Screen Power takes you to the first occurrence of 
that word.  As you continue typing, Screen Power refines its search.  By the 
time you have typed "Show Cur" Screen Power will find the correct function.  
If you want, you can stop typing when you finish the word "Show," then use the 
TAB key to move to the next occurrence of the word.  You can also press SHIFT 
TAB to move to the previous occurrence.  Or you can continue to type, entering 
the word "cursor" to continue to refine your search.  After you find the 
function you want, press the ENTER key to select it.  Screen Power returns you 
to the previous menu.  

Set Active Window (A)




This item appears in the Communication, Review, and Braille Options menus.  
Its selections are:

      E:  Entire Screen
      W:  Window
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

This command allows you to set the active window that Screen Power uses.  
Select Entire Screen if you want to use the entire screen as your active area.  
This is the default setting.  Select Window if you want to limit the active 
screen area to one of your pre-defined windows.  

This command allows you to set the active window that Screen Power uses.  
Screen Power is always in a window.  When you first run Screen Power each day, 
it is in a full-screen window.  You can switch to any pre-defined window at 
any time.  This is called the Active Window.  The window can be the entire 
screen or any rectangular, pre-defined portion of the screen.  When you are in 
the active window, Screen Power only reads information within its borders.  It 
is as though that window is the entire screen.  In other words, you can set a 
virtual screen to be any portion of the screen that you need at the moment.  
If you issue a navigation or reading command to look outside the Active Window 
boundaries, Screen Power will not read.  It will only read or move to areas 
inside the Active Window.  

When you first run Screen Power, the active window is the entire screen, which 
is the default.  If you always want to use the entire screen, you will not 
need to set an active window.  

See the entry in this chapter on "Windows" for more information on how windows 
work and how to set them.  


Set Direction (D)

This item is in the Text Searching Options menu.  The Set Direction menu 
selection sets the direction of the search.  It is either Forward or Backward.  
The default is Forward.  


Set Search Method (M)

This item is in the Text Searching Options menu.  Use this item to tell Screen 
Power what type of searching methods to use.  

The Set Search Method item includes the following options:

      E:  Exact
      M:  Mix
      W:  Word
      P:  Partial



Exact and Mix refer to whether you use a case-specific search or not.  Exact 
means an exact upper- and lower-case search; Mix means the search is not 
case-specific.  Word and Partial refer to whether you search for whole words 
or partial words.  Word means to search only for the whole word; Partial means 
to search for the text string whether it is a whole word or part of a larger 
word.  

You may set two options here-either Exact or Mix, and either Word or Partial.  
Each of these two parts is set individually, that is, you can't set both with 
one command.  For example, if you want to select "Exact" and "Word" methods, 
first you select the "Exact" method, then you must go back to the Set Search 
Method menu again, then select "Word" method.

The default settings are Mix and Partial.  For example, a Partial search for 
"Vulcan" will also find the word "Vulcans."  If you select Word instead of 
Partial, you will not find the word "Vulcans."  If you select Exact search for 
"Vulcan," you will not find the word if the initial "V" is not capitalized.  


Show (S)

Most Screen Power functions or menus contain an item called "Show."  Select 
this item to see a status display of the current settings for an item.  For 
example, if you select Show in the Verbal Options menu, the screen will 
display the word STATUS, followed by the status of each of the Verbal Options, 
one per line.  If you select Show in the Windows menu, the screen will display 
the boundaries and attributes for the window you are working with.  


Silent Window Options (I)

This item appears in the Screen mode menu.  Its options are:

      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      B:  Boundary
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

The default is Disabled.  Select Enable to activate your Silent Window.  You 
must set its boundaries through the Boundary menu.  Select Show to see the 
current settings.  

The Silent Window menu allows you to block off part of the screen so that its 
contents will not be automatically spoken when changes occur.  Use this to 
silence a status line or clock that speaks constantly as the screen is 
refreshed.  You must set boundaries for your Silent Window.  Do this via the 
Boundary menu.  You may select the entire screen as the boundaries, or you may 
individually set the top, bottom, left, and right boundaries.  Its options 
are:



      E:  Entire Screen
      L:  Left Column
      T:  Top Row
      R:  Right Column
      B:  Bottom Row
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select E to set the silent window boundaries to be the entire screen area.  
Use the other four options, Left Column, Top Row, Right Column, and Bottom 
Row, to set the four corners of the silent window.  The defaults are all 
"Undefined" until you set boundaries.  You must set boundaries for your silent 
window if you want it to be something other than the full screen.  The Show 
selection displays the boundaries of the current silent window.  

Note: A valuable shortcut for setting boundaries is to first select the entire 
      screen.  This sets boundaries of row 1, column 1 to row 25, column 80.  
      Then you only need to change the boundaries that differ from the entire 
      screen boundaries.  

The F2 key in the Boundary menu allows you to set boundaries via cursor 
positioning in your application screen.  After you press F2, Screen Power 
displays a freeze-frame of your last active screen.  Move the cursor to the 
desired location, then press HOME to set the top left corner and END to set 
the bottom right corner.  You can also select T, B, L, and R within the F2 
screen to set the top, bottom, left, and right boundaries. Press ENTER to 
confirm your selection.  Press ESC to abort at any time.  


Single Quote Options (U)

This item appears in the Verbal Options sub-menu in all four modes: 
Communication, Review, Screen, and Keyboard.  Its options are I: Ignore and S: 
Say.  The default is Say.  This option determines how singles quotes, or 
apostrophes, are spoken.  Select Say if you want Screen Power to say "single 
quote" when it encounters a single quote.  Select Ignore if you want Screen 
Power to say nothing when it encounters a single quote.  


Skip Blank Area Options (K)

This item pertains to braille only.  It is in the Braille Display Options menu 
from the Braille Options menu.  This is equivalent to the Gateway "Skip 
Blanks" command, CHORD (s).  Its options are E: Enable and D: Disable.  The 
default is Disable.  This option lets you have the braille display skip blank 
screen areas and advance directly to the next screen area that has characters 
in it.  



Note: To configure how speech handles blank lines, use "Line Blank Options."  
      This item is in the Line Options menu in Communication and Review modes.  


Soft Cursor Tracking Options (T)

This item appears twice in Screen Power, in the Global mode menu and in the 
Windows menu in the Braille Options menu.  This is because you can set Screen 
Power to do different things in speech and braille.  You can have the speech 
output follow a soft cursor while the braille follows the system cursor, or 
vice versa.  In braille mode, Soft Cursor Tracking is tied to each window.  
When you define a window, you also define whether it follows a soft cursor.  
The Soft Cursor Tracking options are the same in both places:

      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      M:  Method
      T:  Set Tracking Direction
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select E to Enable soft cursor tracking.  The default is Disabled.  Once you 
enable this function, you must select your method and tracking direction.  The 
tracking direction can be one of eight possible order combinations of up, 
down, left, and right.  They are found in the Set Tracking Direction sub-menu, 
and are numbered from 1 to 8.  For example, selection 1 is Top, Down, Left, 
Right.  That means Screen Power will track from top down to bottom and from 
left to right, so it will start in the upper left and track down to the lower 
right.  The first two directions are the overall heading, and the last two are 
the specific.  So Selection 1 will track specifically from left to right as it 
heads generally from the top to the bottom.  Selection 6 is Left, Right, 
Bottom, Up.  That means the large tracking movement is from left to right, 
with the specific movement from bottom to top, so it will start in the lower 
left corner and track up to the upper right corner, first from the bottom up, 
then to the right one character, then from the bottom up again, and so on.


Tracking by Character

Three methods exist to track soft cursors: by character, by attribute, and by 
a combination of character and attribute.  If you select character tracking, 
you are prompted to enter the character.  Use any ASCII character; just enter 
the ASCII value.  

You can also use the F2 key to define the character.  Press F2 and Screen 
Power will display a freeze-frame of your last active application screen.  
Move the cursor to the desired character, then press ENTER.  The


character will be displayed on the "Enter character:" screen.  Press ENTER 
again to return to the Soft Cursor Tracking Method menu.  


Tracking by Attribute

If you select attribute tracking, Screen Power displays an attribute menu.  If 
you select both character and attribute tracking, Screen Power prompts you 
first for the character, then for the attribute.  The attribute menu 
selections are:

      F:  Foreground
      B:  Background
      H:  Highlight
      K:  Blinking
      N:  Negating
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

Select F if the attribute you need to track occurs in the foreground of the 
computer screen.  Select B if you need to track a background attribute.  
Foreground and background selections each lead you to another sub-menu of all 
the possible color choices.  They are:  

      B:  Black
      U:  Blue
      G:  Green
      C:  Cyan
      R:  Red
      M:  Magenta
      N:  Brown
      W:  White
      I:  Ignore

The default is Ignore.  You can also select Blinking or Highlight (you can 
select both if needed).  The defaults are Ignore for both attributes.  
Highlight and Blinking each lead you to a menu where you can select Y to 
activate the attribute, N if you want to deactivate it, and I if you want to 
ignore it.  

Select N for Negating in the Attribute menu if you need to track the absence 
of a particular attribute instead of its presence.  The choices here are Yes 
and No.  The default is No, or Attribute Negating Off.  

You can use the F2 key to select attributes directly from the application 
screen.  Sometimes you do not know what the attributes or colors are.  Or 
there may be a combination of foreground and background colors and attributes 
that would take time to select using the menu system.  

Press F2 and Screen Power will display a freeze-frame of your last active 
screen.  Move the cursor to the desired location, then select A for


All attributes, F for Foreground, B for Background, K for Blinking, or H for 
Highlighting.  Press ENTER to return to the Attribute menu.

Check your selections through the Show menu item.  If you have soft cursor 
tracking disabled, the Show setting will not show all your settings; it will 
only show that it is disabled.  If you have enabled soft cursor tracking, the 
Show menu displays your settings for all character and attribute choices.  

WordPerfect's spell checker is a good place to use soft cursor tracking.  The 
upper half of the screen uses a highlighted background to identify the 
misspelled word.  You can set a Screen Power window for this area.  Within the 
window, set Screen Power to track a highlighted background.  WordPerfect also 
uses this type of screen display in its List Files (F5) function in lines 4 
through 22.  

Lotus 1-2-3 is another program that benefits from soft cursor tracking.  
Lotus' spreadsheet parks the system cursor in the upper left corner of the 
screen, where it displays the data you are entering into a cell.  If you want 
to read what's in the actual cell and move from cell to cell, you must follow 
a highlighted bar.  You can use soft cursor tracking to identify and follow 
this bar.  


Special Key Menu

This menu appears whenever you select the Add option in a Hotkey menu.  It 
appears in all the hotkey menus, including QWERTY Hotkeys, Braille Keyboard 
Hotkeys, BrailleMate Keyboard Hotkeys, and Panel Keys Hotkeys.  

The Special Key menu contains the following options:

      1:  Alt
      2:  Control
      3:  Shift
      4:  Alt-Control
      5:  Alt-Shift
      6:  Control-Shift
      7:  None

When you are setting a QWERTY hotkey, use this menu to define the hotkey 
itself, that is, the key combination you press on the computer keyboard to 
activate the function you set for it.  With these different special keys to 
use along with another key, you have a virtually unlimited supply of hotkeys 
to define and use.  After you select which special key to use, Screen Power 
prompts you to enter a key.  This is the key you will press along with the 
special key you just selected.  If you want the hotkey to be CTRL-ALT-I, 
choose 4 from the Add menu, then enter the letter "i".  

Speech Options (S)




This item is found in all four Screen Power speech mode menus (Communication, 
Review, Screen, and Keyboard).  It is identical in all modes.  Its options 
are:

      A:  Set Rate
      P:  Set Pitch
      V:  Set Volume
      I:  Set Voice
      S:  Show
      R:  Reset to Previous Settings
      Q:  Quit

Each selection has values from 1 through 9.  The defaults are identical in all 
four modes for Rate and Volume: Speech Rate 5 and Speech Volume 3.  The 
settings for pitch and voice are different in each mode.  This enables you to 
immediately distinguish the each mode by its unique-sounding voice.  In 
Communication mode, the Pitch is 4 and the Speech Voice is 1; in Review mode, 
the Pitch is 7 and the Voice is 2; in Screen mode, the Pitch is 3 and the 
Voice is 5; in Keyboard mode, the Pitch is 5 and the Voice is 4.  

Note: Although it does not have a menu entry, Screen Power also has a menu 
      mode voice.  The default settings for this voice are: Rate 5, Pitch 1, 
      Volume 3, Voice 3.

The terms Rate, Pitch, and Volume are self-explanatory.  "Voice" is special 
term for speech systems.  The separate voices are more distinguishable with a 
synthesizer like the DECtalk.  

Select Reset to set the speech settings back to their settings immediately 
before your latest changes.  


Start-up Options

Screen Power software offers several start-up options.  The Screen Power 
program uses default settings for start-up when you start Screen Power with no 
options.  Select the start-up options at the DOS prompt using the command:

      SPI /option1 /option2 /option3 ...

You can change options by repeating the loading command with the new options.  
This does not take any extra memory.  You can also make entries in either 
upper or lower case.  The start-up options are:



      /BCn  (where n is 1 or 2) Specifies which computer serial port, COM1 or 
            COM2, the braille display unit is connected to

      /Cn   (where n is 1 or 2) Specifies which computer serial port, COM1 or 
            COM2, an external synthesizer is connected to

      /D    Disables previously loaded copy of Screen Power

      /E    Re-enables Screen Power after a /D

      /F    Enables the swap options and swap-to-disk file option

      /Pn   (where n is 1 or 2) Specifies which computer parallel port, LPT1 
            or LPT2, the braille display unit is connected to

      /T    Enables the swap option and swaps Screen Power to extended memory

      /X    Enables the swap option and swaps Screen Power to expanded memory

Note: You can use the /D option while Screen Power is running by typing SPI /D 
      at a DOS prompt whenever you want to disable Screen Power's operation 
      and commands.  The /D option disables Screen Power but does not remove 
      it from memory.  Type SPI /E to enable it again.  

Other start-up options are available to configure Screen Power for 
synthesizer-specific settings.  Refer to the Installation Guide for complete 
information.  


String Method (S)

This item is a selection in the Monitors menu in Communication mode.  Use the 
String method if you want Screen Power to look for exact changes in an exact 
area of the screen.  The String method asks you first to define a row and 
column location on the screen via the Location menu.  Then you must define a 
text string, attribute, or both for Screen Power to look for.  Do this via the 
Monitor String menu.  See the entries titled "Monitors," "Location Menu," and 
"Monitor String Menu" for complete information about using the String method.  


Synchronization Options (Y)

This item appears in the Global Options menu.  Its options are:

      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

The default is Disable.  This item controls whether Screen Power's braille and 
speech output are synchronized or not.  Select Enable if you want to have the 
braille display follow the speech output at all times. 


Select Disable to have the braille stay put while speech reads a portion of 
the screen or document.  Whenever you give a speech reading command, speech 
moves through the portion of text to read, returning to its starting place 
when it's done reading.  When you disable synchronization, the braille display 
stays at the speech starting place.

This command is useful if you want to use speech to read a section of text 
(say, a paragraph), but you want to keep your braille where it is.  In this 
case, the braille will not scroll through the text that the speech is reading.  

This is different from the concept (and menu item) of Link and Unlink Braille 
Display from Cursor.  When you unlink the braille display from the cursor, the 
braille display doesn't follow the cursor at all.  It stays where it is, 
moving only if you use the right-hand panel keys and buttons.  When you 
disable synchronization, the braille display still follows the cursor.  It 
only stays put when you give a speech reading command.  


Text Options (T)

This item controls how Screen Power verbalizes text.  It appears in the Verbal 
Options sub-menu of the Communication mode, Review mode, Screen mode, and 
Keyboard mode menus.  Its options in Communication, Review, and Screen mode 
are:

      W:  Word
      S:  Spell
      B:  Say and Spell

The default is Word.  In Keyboard mode, the options are only W: Word and S: 
Spell.  The default is also Word.  This item handles how Screen Power reads 
text.  

If you select Spell, Screen Power will verbalize text letter by letter as you 
type it (in Keyboard mode), as it scrolls onto the screen (in Screen mode), as 
you review it (in Review mode), or as it is spoken when you give a command (In 
Communication mode).  

If you select Word, Screen Power will wait until a whole word appears before 
saying anything.  In Keyboard mode, Word mode means Screen Power will not read 
what you have typed until you type a space or punctuation mark.  Then it will 
read the word you have typed.  In Screen mode, Word mode means Screen Power 
will read whole words to you as they scroll onto the screen.  In Review mode, 
it will review word by word.  In Communication mode, Screen Power will speak 
whole words in response to your commands.  

In Say and Spell mode, Screen Power reads each character as it is typed, then 
reads the whole word after it is done.  




Text Searching Options (T)

This item is in the Global Options menu.  Its menu selections are:

      M:  Set Search Method
      D:  Set Direction
      T:  Text String
      S:  Show
      R:  Reset to Undefine
      Q:  Quit

The text searching options menu allows the selection of global searching 
parameters.  You can search for a variety of things on the screen.  Searching 
is fast and allows you to find quickly any specified set of characters.  You 
are not limited to searching for exact words.  You can also search for the 
next occurrence or numbers or punctuation.  You can search forward or 
backward.  The choices are explained in more detail below.

Text searching is a Review mode function.  It searches a static (unchanging) 
screen.  You must set up your search parameters in the menu system, but you 
will not perform the search in the menu system.  The actual search is 
initiated with a hotkey in Review mode.  You can enter the search string 
either in the menu system or in Review mode through a hotkey.  We will give an 
example at the end of this section.  

The Set Search Method entry includes the following options:

      E:  Exact
      M:  Mix
      W:  Word
      P:  Partial

Exact and Mix refer to whether you use a case-specific search or not.  Exact 
means an exact upper- and lower-case search; Mix means the search is not 
case-specific.  Word and Partial refer to whether you search for whole words 
or partial words.  Word means to search only for the whole word; Partial means 
to search for the text string whether it is a whole word or part of a larger 
word.  

You may set two options here-either Exact or Mix, and either Word or Partial.  
Each of these two parts is set individually, that is, you can't set both with 
one command.  For example, if you want to select "Exact" and "Word" methods, 
first you select the "Exact" method, then you must go back to the Set Search 
Method menu again, then select "Word" method.

The default settings are Mix and Partial.  For example, a Partial search for 
"Vulcan" will also find the word "Vulcans."  If you select Word instead of 
Partial, you will not find the word "Vulcans."  If you select Exact search for 
"Vulcan," you will not find the word if the initial "V" is not capitalized.  



The Set Direction menu selection sets the direction of the search method.  It 
is either Forward or Backward.  The default is Forward.  

You must enter the text string you want to find.  It can be up to 20 
characters.  It is usually better to search for smaller strings.  For example, 
if you want to search for the word "Vulcan," you can probably limit your 
search to the characters "v u l c" to save entering more characters.  Select 
the Partial setting for this search.  

Select Show to display the current status of the search parameters, including 
your text string, search method, and search direction.  Select Reset to 
Undefine to reset the search string and parameters to an undefined state.


Timer Interrupt Display Options (T)

This item is in the Interrupt Display Options menu of the Braille Options 
menu. The default is Timer Interrupt Enabled.  This is equivalent to the 
Gateway start-up option, /TIM.  If you Disable the Timer Interrupt, it is 
equivalent to the Gateway start-up option /KEY.

You will not need to change this setting unless timing problems appear.  If 
this option is Disabled, Screen Power uses the Keyboard interrupt when you 
type and when it processes commands.  See the entry on "Interrupt Display 
Options" for more information about interrupts.


Tones Options (T)

This item is in the Feedback Options menu of the Braille Options menu.  This 
is equivalent to the Gateway "Tones On" and "Tones Off" start-up options, 
/TONES and /TONESOFF.  Use the Tones Options to enable or disable the tones 
that Screen Power uses to indicate such things as the status of the CAPS LOCK, 
NUM LOCK, and SCROLL LOCK keys, when you go into or out of braille keyboard 
mode, move to a new line, or reach the top, bottom, left, or right screen 
(window) boundary.  The default is to Enable tones.  


Upper Case Letter Options (U)

This item pertains to braille only.  It is in the Character Display Options 
sub-menu from the Braille Display Options menu from the Braille Options menu 
(speech output of capital letters is controlled through the "Capital Letter 
Options" selection in the Verbal Options menu).   This is equivalent to the 
Gateway "Capital Letter Indicator" command, CHORD (;).  Its options are S: 
Show and H: Hide.  The default is Show.  If you choose Show and you are using 
6-dot braille, all upper case letters will vibrate.  If you are using an 8-dot 
display, upper case letters will be indicated by dot 7.  



Note: If you are using 6-dot braille and you turn Vibration Options off, you 
      will not be able to see upper case letters, even if you have "Upper Case 
      Letters" set to Show.


Verbal Options (V)

This item appears in the Communication mode, Review mode, Screen mode, and 
Keyboard mode menus.  This menu item has many options, each one of which has 
sub-menus of its own.  The Verbal Options in Communication, Review, and Screen 
mode are:

      T:  Text Options
      C:  Capital Letter Options
      U:  Single Quote Options
      B:  Blank or Space Options
      N:  Number Options
      P:  Punctuation Options
      G:  Graphic Character Options
      O:  Control Character Options
      D:  Dictionary Options
      A:  Abbreviation Options
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

In Keyboard mode, the options are:

      T:  Text Options
      C:  Capital Letter Options
      U:  Single Quote Options
      G:  Graphic Character Options
      O:  Control Character Options
      S:  Show
      Q:  Quit

You can customize much of Screen Power's operation through Verbal Options.  
Five items are configurable through the Keyboard mode Verbal Options menu; ten 
are available through the Verbal Options menu in each of the other modes.  
These items include Capital Letter Options, through which you can tell Screen 
Power how to handle capital letters, Punctuation Options, through which you 
tell Screen Power how to handle punctuation, and Dictionary Options, in which 
you enable or disable Screen Power's pronunciation dictionary.  See the 
individual entries for each of the items for detailed information on their 
use.  


Vibration Options (V)

This item controls vibrating dots on the refreshable braille display.  It 
appears in the Braille Hardware Options sub-menu of the Braille Options menu.  
Its options are:



      E:  Enable
      D:  Disable

Choose Enable if you want to use vibrating dots.  Choose Disable to disable 
vibrations.  The default is Disabled.  

This option is applicable only with 6-dot braille.  Vibration Options control 
display of upper case letters and most upper-ASCII graphics characters.  
Whenever it encounters one of these character types, Screen Power will cause 
all dots in the cell to vibrate.  Upper case letters and ASCII characters 
160-191 vibrate fastest; ASCII characters 128-159 and 224-255 vibrate slowest.  

Note: Vibration Options does not control a vibrating cursor.  There are four 
      ways you can display the cursor character on the braille display; two of 
      these vibrate.  If you select one of the two vibrating cursors and you 
      Disable Vibration, the cursor character will still vibrate.  


Video Interrupt Display Options (V)

This item is in the Interrupt Display Options menu of the Braille Options 
menu.  The default is Video Interrupt Disabled.  

Several video interrupts control items related to the video display, such as 
refreshing text and moving the cursor.  Screen Power can use one of these 
video interrupts.  Certain application programs may use the same video 
interrupt that Screen Power uses.  If you feel you have a conflict, consult 
TeleSensory Technical Support.  They may recommend that you Enable Screen 
Power's Video Interrupt Display.  You will not need to change this setting 
unless timing problems appear.  See the entry on "Interrupt Display Options" 
for more information about interrupts.


Visual Bar Display Options (V)

This item is in the Feedback Options menu of the Braille Options menu.  This 
is equivalent to the Gateway "Hide Visual Window" command, CHORD (v).  Use the 
Visual Bar Display Options to enable or disable the visual bar that shows up 
on the computer screen to indicate where the braille display is located.  The 
default is visual bar Enabled.


Windows (W)

This item is in the Communication, Review, and Braille Options menus.  When 
you select Windows, the system prompts you to enter a window number.  You can 
set up to 100 windows.  

What Are Windows?




A window is any pre-defined rectangular screen area.  A window can be as tiny 
as one character and as big as the entire screen.  Screen Power is always 
working in a window.  The Active Window is set with the S: Set Active Window 
command from the main menu (see that entry in this Reference Guide for more 
details).  Once you set a window, Screen Power can do many things with it.  It 
can monitor the window for changes using the powerful Monitor system (see 
"Monitors" for details).  You can set hotkeys and macros to do tasks using 
windows.  

Windows can make using your application programs much easier.  For example, 
WordPerfect, like many programs, uses line 25 as the status line.  You cannot 
move the system cursor to this area of the screen.  If you set a window to 
encompass line 25, you can read that window at any time.  You can also set a 
window to be just the left side of row 25.  You can then have Screen Power 
read just that window, the left side of row 25, without reading any extraneous 
information.  

WordPerfect's spell checker divides the screen into several parts.  You can 
set the top half, which contains the highlighted misspelling in your text, to 
be one window.  Lines 14 through 23 contain the list of possible correct 
spellings.  You can set this area as a second window.  Line 25 contains the 
spell checker options (check word, check page, do a word count, etc.).  Set 
this line as a third window.  Use these three windows to make spell-checking 
more efficient and accurate.  

Note: The section on "Windows" in the User Guide contains more information, 
      including step-by-step instructions to set speech and braille windows 
      for WordPerfect.  


Setting a Window

After you enter a window number from 1 to 100 at the Windows menu selection, 
Screen Power displays the Windows menu.  The menu is identical in 
Communication and Review modes, and slightly different in Braille mode.  In 
Communication and Review modes, the menu is:

      B:  Boundary Options
      A:  Attribute Filter Options
      C:  Comment
      S:  Show
      R:  Reset to Undefine
      Q:  Quit

In Braille mode, the menu is:



      B:  Boundary Options
      T:  Soft Cursor Tracking Options
      C:  Comment
      S:  Show
      R:  Reset to Undefine
      Q:  Quit

The only differences are that Braille mode has "Soft Cursor Tracking Options" 
and does not have "Attribute Filter Options."  Communication and Review mode 
windows have "Attribute Filter Options" but not "Soft Cursor Tracking 
Options."  

Boundary Options lets you define the boundaries of the window.  You can set 
each of the four corners. You can also define a window as the entire screen 
here. 

Soft Cursor Tracking Options contains detailed menu choices to customize ways 
Screen Power can track a non-standard cursor character.  You can enable or 
disable this function.  The default is disabled.  Screen Power can track a 
specific character, foreground or background attributes, or a combination of 
the two.  It can track in any direction.  These capabilities are taken from 
TeleSensory's TRACK program.  Note that you can track something different in 
each window you define.  The combination of these two features makes this a 
very powerful program. 

Attribute Filter Options contains detailed menu options to filter in or out 
certain screen colors and attributes.  You can enable or disable this 
function.  The default is disabled.  Screen Power can look for specific 
foreground and background colors, highlighting, blinking, or a combination of 
all of these.  Note that you can set different attributes and colors for each 
window you define.  You can also set two windows with the same dimensions but 
different attributes.  

You may use the Comment menu selection to write a descriptive comment about 
the selected window.  Comment strings may be up to 20 characters.  This may 
help you distinguish one window from another and remember why you set the 
window.  The comment string only appears in the Show Status screen.  Select S 
for Show to see the current window boundaries and soft cursor tracking 
settings. 

For more information on Attribute Filter Options, Boundary Options, and Soft 
Cursor Tracking Options, please see their entries in this Reference Guide.  







                                         Appendix A: Screen Power Menu Outline


C:  Communication Options
    A: Set Active Window
       E:  Entire Screen (default)
       W:  Window
       S:  Show
           [shows settings of active window]
       Q:  Quit Communication Menu
    V: Verbal Options
       T:  Text Options
           W: Word (default)
           S: Spell
           B: Say and Spell
       C:  Capital Letter Options
           I: Ignore (default)
           S: Say
           P: Pitch
           T: Tone
           V: Volume
       U:  Single Quote Options
           I: Ignore
           S: Say (default)
       B:  Blank or Space Options
           I: Ignore (default)
           S: Say
           K: Click
           P: Pause
           C: Count Options
              I:  Indent
              A:  All
       N:  Number Options
           D: Digit
           P: Pair
           F: Full
           W: Word (default)
       P:  Punctuation Options
           I: Ignore
           A: All (default)
           M: Most
           S: Some
           R: Repeat Punctuation Options
              A:  All
              1:  Once
              2:  Twice (default)


              3:  Three Times
              4:  Four Times
              C:  Count
           P: Pause Options
              Y:  Yes (default)
              N:  No
       G:  Graphic Character Options
           I: Ignore
           S: Say (default)
           A: ASCII
           R: Repeat Graphic Character Options
              A:  All
              1:  Once
              2:  Twice (default)
              3:  Three Times
              4:  Four Times
              C:  Count
       O:  Control Character Options
           I: Ignore (default)
           S: Say
           A: ASCII
       D:  Dictionary Options
           I: Ignore
           U: Use (default)
       A:  Abbreviation Options
           I: Ignore (default)
           U: Use
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Verbal Menu
    S: Speech Options
       A:  Set Rate
           1: Speech Rate 1
           2: Speech Rate 2
           3: Speech Rate 3
           4: Speech Rate 4
           5: Speech Rate 5 (default)
           6: Speech Rate 6
           7: Speech Rate 7
           8: Speech Rate 8
           9: Speech Rate 9
       P:  Set Pitch
           1: Speech Pitch 1
           2: Speech Pitch 2
           3: Speech Pitch 3
           4: Speech Pitch 4 (default)
           .


           .
           9: Speech Pitch 9
       V:  Set Volume
           1: Speech Volume 1
           2: Speech Volume 2
           3: Speech Volume 3 (default)
           .
           .
           9: Speech Volume 9
       I:  Set Voice
           1: Speech Voice 1 (default)
           .
           .
           9: Speech Voice 9
       S:  Show Settings
       R:  Reset To Previous Settings
       Q:  Quit Speech Menu
    L: Line Options
       P:  Line Pause Options
           Y: Yes
           N: No (default)
       N:  Line Number Options
           I: Ignore (default)
           S: Say
       B:  Line Blank Options
           I: Ignore
           S: Say (default)
           P: Pause
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Line Menu
    W: Windows
       [Enter Window number 1-100, then]
       B:  Boundary Options
           E: Entire Screen
           L: Left Column
           T: Top Row
           R: Right Column
           B: Bottom Row
           S: Show
              [shows current window boundaries]
           Q: Quit Boundary Menu
       A:  Attribute Filter Options
           E: Enable
           D: Disable
           A: Attribute Options
              F:  Foreground


                  B:  Black
                  U:  Blue
                  G:  Green
                  C:  Cyan
                  R:  Red
                  M:  Magenta
                  N:  Brown
                  W:  White
                  I:  Ignore
              B:  Background
                  [same as Foreground Options]
              H:  Highlight
                  Y:  Highlight
                  N:  No Highlight
                  I:  Ignore Highlight
              K:  Blinking
                  Y:  Blinking
                  N:  No Blinking
                  I:  Ignore Blinking
              N:  Negating
                  N:  No
                  Y:  Yes
              S:  Show
                  [shows attributes for current window]
              Q:  Quit Attribute Menu
           S: Show
           Q: Quit Attribute Filter Menu
       C:  Comment
           [enter comment string...]
       S:  Show
           [shows boundaries & attribute settings for current window]
       R:  Reset to Undefine
       Q:  Quit Window Menu
    O: Monitors
       [Enter Monitor number 1-100, then]
       E:  Enable
       D:  Disable


       M:  Method
           R: Region [to Boundary Menu]
              [Boundary Menu]
              E:  Entire Screen
              L:  Left Column
              T:  Top Row
              R:  Right Column
              B:  Bottom Row
              S:  Show
                  [shows boundaries of current monitor]
              Q:  Quit Boundary Menu
           S: String [to Location Menu, then to Monitor String Menu]
              [Location Menu]
              C:  Column
              R:  Row
              S:  Show
                  [shows settings]
              Q:  Quit Location Menu
              [Monitor String Menu]
                  T:  Text String
                      [enter character]
                  A:  Attribute
                      [enter Attribute Counter, 1-20, then goes directly to 
                      Attribute Menu]
                         F:  Foreground
                             [same as for Windows]
                         B:  Background
                             [same as for Windows]
                         H:  Highlight
                             [same as for Windows]
                         K:  Blinking
                             [same as for Windows]
                         N:  Negating
                             [same as for Windows]
                         S:  Show
                             [shows attributes selected to monitor]
                         Q:  Quit Attribute Menu
                  B:  Both Text String and Attribute
                      [combines above two entry fields]
       F:  Function
           [select function from among 1400+ choices]
       C:  Comment
           [enter comment string...]
       S:  Show
           [shows settings for current monitor]
       R:  Reset to Undefine


       Q:  Quit Monitor Menu
    H: Hotkeys
       A:  Add
           [Special Key Menu]
           1: Alt
           2: Control
           3: Shift
           4: Alt-Control
           5: Alt-Shift
           6: Control-Shift
           7: None
              [for any of above selections, next enter Edit Key]
              [for any of above selections, after that Select Functions to 
              select from over 1,000 choices]
       D:  Delete
           [Select Hotkey to delete]
       S:  Show
           [shows computer keyboard hotkey assignments-can rotate among all 
           hotkeys that have been set]
       Q:  Quit Hotkey Menu
    M: Macros
       [Enter Macro number 1-100, then]
       D:  Define
           ["i" for insert, "d" for delete, or "e" for edit mode, then Select 
           Functions to select from over 1,400 choices]
           [If choose "If" as function, go directly to "If Condition Menu"]
           [If Condition Menu]
              L:  Location Options
                  [same as in Monitor String Method Menu]
              M:  Method Options
                  [same as in Monitor String Method Menu]
              S:  Show
              Q:  Quit If Condition Menu
       C:  Comment
           [enter Comment String]
       S:  Show
           [shows functions in current macro]
       R:  Reset to Undefine
       Q:  Quit Macro Menu
    Q: Quit Communication Menu
R:  Review Options
    A: Set Active Window
       [same as in Communication menu]
    V: Verbal Options
       [same as in Communication menu, except default setting for Number 
       Options is Pair]


    S: Speech Options
       [same as in Communication menu, but default Rate is 5, Pitch 7, Volume 
       3, and Voice 2]
    L: Line Options
       [same as in Communication menu]
    W: Windows
       [same as in Communication menu]
    P: Place Markers
       [Enter Place Marker number 1-100, then]
       L:  Location
           C: Column
           R: Row
           S: Show
              [shows row and column settings]
           Q: Quit Location Menu
       C:  Comment
           [enter Comment String]
       S:  Show
           [shows current place marker number and location]
       R:  Reset to Undefine
       Q:  Quit Place Marker Menu
    H: Hotkeys
       [same as in Communication menu]
    M: Macros
       [same as in Communication menu]
    Q: Quit Review Menu
S:  Screen Options
    E: Echo Options
       E:  Enable (default)
       D:  Disable
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Echo Menu
    V: Verbal Options
       [same as in Communication menu, except default setting for Number 
       Options is Digit, default setting for Repeat Punctuation Options is 
       All, default setting for Pause Options is No, and default setting for 
       Graphic Character Options is Twice]
    S: Speech Options
       [same as in Communication menu, but default Rate is 5, Pitch 3, Volume 
       3, and Voice 5]
    B: Boundary Options
       [same as in Windows and Monitors menus]
    A: Attribute Filter Options
       [same as in Windows and Monitors menus]


    I: Silent Window Options
       E:  Enable
       D:  Disable
       B:  Boundary
           [same as in Windows and Monitors menus]
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Silent Window Menu
    M: Margin Bell Options
       E:  Enable
       D:  Disable (default)
       C:  Column
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Margin Bell Menu
    Q: Quit Screen Menu
K:  Keyboard Options
    E: Echo Options
       E:  Enable
       D:  Disable (default)
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Echo Menu
    V: Verbal Options
       T:  Text Options
           W: Word (default)
           S: Spell
       C:  Capital Letter Options
           I: Ignore (default)
           S: Say
       U:  Single Quote Options
           I: Ignore
           S: Say (default)
       G:  Graphic Character Options
           S: Say (default)
           A:A:ASCII
       O:  Control Character Options
           S: Say (default)
           A: ASCII
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Verbal Menu
    S: Speech Options
       [same as in Communication menu, but default Rate is 5, Pitch 5, Volume 
       3, and Voice 4]
    K: Key Click Options
       E:  Enable
       D:  Disable (default)
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Key Click Menu


    Q: Quit Keyboard Menu
B:  Braille Options
    A: Set Active Window
           E: Entire Screen (default)
           W: Window
           S: Show
              [shows settings of active window]
           Q: Quit Active Window Menu
    W: Windows
       [Enter Window number 1-100, then]
           B: Boundary Options
           [same as in Communication mode Windows Boundary menu]
           T: Soft Cursor Tracking Options
              E:  Enable
              D:  Disable (default)
              M:  Method
                  C:  Character
                      [enter character to track]
                  A:  Attribute
                      [same as in Communication mode Windows Attribute menu]
                  B:  Both Character and Attribute
                         [combines above two entry fields]
              T:  Set Tracking Direction
                  1:  Top,Down,Left,Right (default)
                  2:  Top,Down,Right,Left
                  3:  Bottom,Up,Left,Right
                  4:  Bottom,Up,Right,Left
                  5:  Left,Right,Top,Down
                  6:  Left,Right,Bottom,Up
                  7:  Right,Left,Top,Down
                  8:  Right,Left,Bottom,Up
              S:  Show
                  [shows all current soft cursor tracking options]
              Q:  Quit Soft Cursor Tracking Menu
           C: Comment
              [enter comment string...; range 1-20 characters]
           S: Show
              [shows boundaries and soft cursor tracking settings for current 
              window]
           R: Reset to Undefine
           Q: Quit Window Menu
    P: Place Markers
       [Enter Place Marker number 1-100, then]
           L: Location
              C:  Column
              R:  Row


              S:  Show
                  [shows row and column settings]
              Q:  Quit Location Menu
           C: Comment
              [enter Comment String...; range 1-20 characters]
           S: Show
              [shows current place marker number and location]
           R: Reset to Undefine
           Q: Quit Place Marker Menu
    D: Braille Display Options
       L:  Link Display with Cursor Options
           L: Link (default)
           U: Unlink
       8:  8/6-dot Display Options
           8: Use 8-dot Display (default)
           6: Use 6-dot Display
       R:  Right Cells Past Right Edge Options
           E: Enable
           D: Disable (default)
       K:  Skip Blank Area Options
           E: Enable
           D: Disable (default)
       P:  Cursor Position Options
           L: Fixed from Left (default, at 32) 
              [enter #, range 1-width of braille display]
           R: Fixed from Right 
              [enter #, range 1-width of braille display]
           F: Floating
       D:  Display Cursor Options
           S: Show Cursor (default)
           H: Hide Cursor
           T: Cursor Type Options
              1:  All Dots Up
              2:  Dot 8 Up and Vibrating
              3:  All Dots Up and Dot 2 Vibrating
              4:  Dots 7 and 8 Up (default)
       C:  Cursor Location Options
           S: Show Location 
           H: Hide Location (default)
       B:  Braille Display Location Options
           S: Show Location 
           H: Hide Location (default)
       W:  Display Width
              [Enter Display Width...; range 10-width of braille display] 
              (default is width of braille display)
       H:  Character Display Options


           U: Upper Case Letter Options
              S:  Show Upper Case (default)
              H:  Hide Upper Case
           C: Control Character Braille Options
              S:  Show Control
              H:  Hide Control (default)
           A: Character Attribute Options
              S:  Show Attribute
              H:  Hide Attribute (default)
           G: Graphic Character Braille Options
              S:  Show Graphic
              H:  Hide Graphic (default)
       S:  Show
           [shows all active settings for braille display options]
       Q:  Quit Braille Display Menu
    K: Braille Keyboard Options
       E:  Enable Braille Keyboard
       D:  Disable Braille Keyboard (default)
       H:  Braille Keyboard Hotkeys
           A: Add
              [Enter number keys for braille dots (1-8), then directly to]
              Braille Hotkey Add Menu
                  K:  Key
                      1: Alt
                      2: Control
                      3: Shift
                      4: Alt-Control
                      5: Alt-Shift
                      6: Control-Shift
                      7: None
                      [for any of above selections, next enter Key]
                  S:  Sticky Key
                      [to Braille Hotkey Add Sticky Key Menu]
                      S: Shift
                      C: Control
                      A: Alt
                      P: Caps Lock
                  F:  Function
                      [choose from among more than 1400 functions]
           D: Delete
           S: Show
              [shows current braille keyboard hotkey assignment and 
              function-can rotate among all hotkeys]
           Q: Quit Braille Keyboard Hotkey Menu
       R:  Braille Keyboard Row Options
           T: Top Row


           M: Middle Row (default)
           B: Bottom Row
       M:  BrailleMate Keyboard Hotkeys Options
           A: Add
              [Enter number keys for braille dots (1-8), then directly to]
              BrailleMate Hotkey Add Shift Menu
              1:  Left Shift
              2:  Spacebar
              3:  Right Shift
              4:  Left and Right Shift
              5:  Left Shift and Spacebar
              6:  Right Shift and Spacebar
              7:  Left, Right, and Spacebar
              [for any of above selections, go directly to]
                  Braille Hotkey Add Menu
                  K:  Key
                      1: Alt
                      2: Control
                      3: Shift
                      4: Alt-Control
                      5: Alt-Shift
                      6: Control-Shift
                      7: None
                      [for any of above selections, next enter Edit Key]
                  S:  Sticky Key
                      [to Braille Hotkey Add Sticky Key Menu]
                      S: Shift
                      C: Control
                      A: Alt
                      P: Caps Lock
                  F:  Function
                      [choose from among more than 1400 functions]
           D: Delete
           S: Show
              [shows current BrailleMate hotkey assignment and function-can 
              rotate among all hotkeys]
           Q: Quit BrailleMate Keyboard Hotkey Menu
       S:  Show
           [shows all active settings for braille keyboard options]
       Q:  Quit Braille Keyboard Menu
    P: Panel Keys Hotkeys 
       A:  Add
           [Enter panel key, then go directly to]
           Panel Key Hotkey Add Menu
           K: Key
              [Special Key Menu]


              1:  Alt
              2:  Control
              3:  Shift
              4:  Alt-Control
              5:  Alt-Shift
              6:  Control-Shift
              7:  None
           F: Function
       D:  Delete
       S:  Show
           [shows current panel key and function-can rotate among all panel 
           key settings]
       Q:  Quit Panel Keys Menu
    G: Grade 2 Braille Display Options
       E:  Enable 
       D:  Disable (default)
       M:  Multiple Line Display Options
           Y: Yes
           N: No (default)
       L:  Line Break Options
           Y: Yes (default)
           N: No
       S:  Show
           [shows all active settings for above]
       Q:  Quit Grade 2 Braille Display Menu
    F: Feedback Options
       V:  Visual Bar Display Options
           E: Enable (default)
           D: Disable
       T:  Tones Options
           E: Enable (default)
           D: Disable
       S:  Show
           [shows visual bar and tones settings]
       Q:  Quit Feedback Menu
    I: Interrupt Display Options
       T:  Timer Interrupt Display Options
           E: Enable (default)
           D: Disable
       V:  Video Interrupt Display Options
           E: Enable
           D: Disable (default)
       S:  Show
           [shows timer and video interrupt settings]
       Q:  Quit Interrupt Display Menu
    H: Braille Hardware Options


       K:  Key Panel Options
           R: Repeat Rate
              [Enter repeat rate (1-10)] (default is 3)
           D: Repeat Delay
              [Enter repeat delay (1-10)] (default is 7)
       V:  Vibration Options
           E: Enable
           D: Disable (default)
       S:  Show
           [shows panel key and vibration settings]
       Q:  Quit Braille Hardware Menu
    Q: Quit Braille Settings Menu
G:  Global Options
    D: Define Dictionary Options
       A:  Add
       D:  Delete
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Dictionary Menu
    O: Form Processing Options
    [enter "i" to insert or "e" to edit, then to Form Processing menu]
       N:  Define Field Name
           [to Boundary menu]
           E: Entire Screen
           L: Left Column
           T: Top Row
           R: Right Column
           B: Bottom Row
           S: Show
           Q: Quit Boundary Menu
       D:  Define Field Data
           [to Boundary menu]
           [same as in Define Field Name menu]
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Form Menu
    F: File Options
       E:  Environment File Options
           L: Load
           S: Save
       D:  Default File Options
           E: Default Environment File Options
              L:  Load Default Environment Settings
              S:  Save Current Environment as Default
           D: Default Dot Tables File Options
              L:  Load Default Dot Tables Settings
              S:  Save current Dot Tables as Default
           C: Default Configuration File Options


              L:  Load Default Configuration Settings
              S:  Save Current Configuration as Default
           Q: Quit Default File Menu
       Q:  Quit File Menu
    T: Soft Cursor Tracking Options
       E:  Enable
       D:  Disable
       M:  Method
           C: Character
              [enter character to track]
           A: Attribute
              [same as in Windows menu]
           B: Both Character and Attribute
              [combines above two entry fields]
       T:  Set Tracking Direction
           1: Top,Down,Left,Right
           2: Top,Down,Right,Left
           3: Bottom,Up,Left,Right
           4: Bottom,Up,Right,Left
           5: Left,Right,Top,Down
           6: Left,Right,Bottom,Up
           7: Right,Left,Top,Down
           8: Right,Left,Bottom,Up
       S:  Show
           [shows soft cursor tracking attributes and direction]
       Q:  Quit Soft Cursor Tracking Menu
    S: Text Searching Options
       M:  Set Search Method
           E: Exact
           M: Mix
           W: Word
           P: Partial
       D:  Set Direction
           F: Forward
           B: Backward
       T:  Text String
           [enter String]
       S:  Show
           [shows above settings]
       R:  Reset to Undefine
       Q:  Quit Text Searching Menu
    R: Route Delay
       [enter Route Delay Count 0-100] (default is 50)


    M: Monitor Rate Options
       1:  Monitor Rate 1
       2:  Monitor Rate 2
       3:  Monitor Rate 3
       4:  Monitor Rate 4
       5:  Monitor Rate 5
       6:  Monitor Rate 6
       7:  Monitor Rate 7
       8:  Monitor Rate 8
       9:  Monitor Rate 9
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Monitor Rate Menu
    A: Activate Speech Options
       E:  Enable (default)
       D:  Disable
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Activate Speech Menu
    Y: Synchronization Options
       E:  Enable
       D:  Disable (default)
       S:  Show
       Q:  Quit Synchronization Menu
    Q: Quit Global Menu
Q:  Quit Screen Power Main Menu
