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1. Bridge User Manual ADVANTAGESOFIWARE 925 Central Parkway www eclipsecat com Stuart Florida 34994 772 288 3266 800 800 1759 FAX 772 288 1737 2007 Advantage Software Inc Copyright 2007 by Advantage Software Inc AlI Rights Reserved Worldwide This manual contains information and trade secrets proprietary to Advantage Software Inc It 1s intended for use by Advantage Software customers only No part of this manual may be copied or distributed transmitted transcribed stored in a retrieval system or translated into any human or computer language in any form or by any means whether electronic mechanical magnetic manual or otherwise or disclosed to third parties without the express written permission of Advantage Software Inc TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents DS CUD WEE Sall ssd tue oi O oa NI leo osa p o ooo ol te Basic PROCeGUt E NA GETING STRATED Iso p dB das on i ads ob Total EclipseM Setup ProCe CUure ccccessecsccveveesescvaveueueeeaveveusuuavavanses Beginning a Realtime Bridge SeSsion lt lt lt ssss lt THE BRIDGE LWINDOW ccccccccsccccccccccccccccccccccccccecccccccccccccccccccccecees NAVIGATING IN BRIDGE ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccecceccees EE pada TNE VIEW Menezes EE Reie TEEN TNS ee duu nea E neon Abd BCAA ocasu ada 17 REID Ko 5 s PO nds sats ede onsen Gen an a dees ain eae E E A 17 Oe l2. say vou have a word like lataa la You press TELH once for each stroke or hours minutes seconds and tenths of a second z li a tm du EAHA Veb ak v EE EAR G How do vou global in more the la 2g4 53 06 A Let s say you have a word la 25 14 09 You press TELH once for each stroke Line Numbers Toolbar button ME This option toggles the display of line numbers on or off Example Line Numbers and Timecodes on e Oeil Bea 244G mh b S dl HE How do vou global 1n more th 14 44 53 06 10 A Let s say you have a word SME l4 You press TELH once for each stroke Line Numbers off DH PAROU AALA Tht ap Ue S l3 C How do vou global in more th A a A be A Let s say vou have a word lai 2o 14 09 You press CTEL G once for each stroke Marks Toolbar button E This option toggles the display of marks on or off 14 Font Toolbar button A This menu choice opens the Font dialog box From here you can select preferences for Font Font style Regular Bold Italic Bold italic Size Effects Strikeout and or Underline Color Script Western or Hebrew Font style Regular O Curlz MT F Dauphin Denmark Desdemona F Directions MT Effects Strikeout Underline AaBbYyaz Color B GL Script western F Zoom In and Zoom Out Zoom in magnify M Zoom out A You can Zoom in and Zoom out which works similarly to using successively
3. 19 Find next Find the next instance of the text or mark NENNEN 19 Find previous Find the previous instance of the text or mark NN 19 About Display program information version and Copyright lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt seeessrr1 19 Play Play the audio or video for this SeCLiION lt lt lt lt lt lt e 6 c6ccccc0 c70 or sr rrx 19 FIPPENDIX B SHORTCUT TABLE za 400d soon OI I bs Va sad S odd 20 INDEX EE 2 111 INTRODUCTION Waart is BRIDGE Bridge 1s a tool for viewing and interacting with a realtime data stream from CAT software SETUP The Bridge user s computer is connected to the Court Reporter s computer by a cable that connects their serial ports Multiple Bridge users may connect to a single court reporter by splitting the cable Other transmission setups are also possible and the Bridge user may call up transcripts from files stored on the user s own computer or network FEATURES When following a realtime transcript the Bridge user may interact with the transcript in a variety of ways When the reporter makes editing changes the program 1s able to refresh the transcript in realtime With little effort or distraction the user may make a simple mark insert a note attach a file a Word processing document a graphic file a spread sheet etc or set a coded issue mark at any point in the transcript Files can be saved and multiple files can be viewed w
4. 9600 19200 38400 Choose the highest setting Bridge and the CAT software can both go 38400 1s usually a good default value File sharing radio button Check this when running Bridge on the same computer as Total Eclipse or across a network Total Eclipse will save data into a file and Bridge will read data from that file in realtime Note column specifies an arbitrary horizontal position for notes expressed in number of characters The default setting 1s 60 but can 1t be adjusted larger or smaller depending on how wide the margins in your CAT software tend to be Multimedia Opens a Multimedia settings dialog to control the settings for the audio file Multimedia settings X Timecode offset 00 00 00 00 WAN EEC 1 OOO Start time for this file EEN Alternate media tile path When finished with settings click OK to choose them or Cancel to exit without saving the changes Connect Hotkey Ctrl T Toolbar button This opens the Open file dialog box where you can choose the bridge file you wish to view You will use Connect to view a realtime file Open to view a previously saved file Print Hotkey Ctrl P Toolbar button 8 This will print the entire Bridge file exactly as 1t appears on the screen including the font and other display information such as whether or not to show timecodes This printout will also include a report at the end which lists the marks and notes and the page and line numbers w
5. Force margins This option allows you to change the margins on the Bridge display When this option 1s off the default setting the text on the display conforms to the paragraph margins set in User Settings Paragraph d All caps This option sets the Bridge display to all capital letters 6 e Flush word delay This option controls the amount of time in milliseconds for example 2000 milliseconds 2 seconds the system will wait before transmitting the very last word written Each word will wait until the following space is transmitted before it 1s displayed Setting this to zero turns the option off and causes the system to wait indefinitely You can set this delay so that you will have the opportunity to delete a word the viewer has not yet seen f Maximum WPM This option sets a maximum speed that words are allowed to display on the screen If the written rate goes too high this option will begin intentionally pausing slightly between each word displayed When the written rate slows down the display will continue and will catch up with the reporter When finished with the output settings close the User Settings dialog boxes BEGINNING A Rennme BRIDGE SESSION 1 ee A ae Connect your writer to an available COM serial port on your computer Connect the Bridge user s computer to yours via serial ports or log on to network to which the output file will be transmitted Press Alt T to open the Translate notes dialog
6. Annotation dialog box Annotation Attach pen Cancel The default Issue is General which will be indicated by a blue dot between the line number and the text You can add any number of issues by typing an issue name into the drop down list text field and each issue will be indicated by a different colored dot In the example below each mark denotes a different issue 10 CLASS bre Bridge File Edit View Help ek B ean QQ ZA NA Mm oe v 12 24 04 How do vou global in more then one stroke 14 44 10 A Let s say vou have a word like oxygen 1 4 12 C How do vou global in a plece of 12 25 13 punctuation like a comma For Help press Fl Page 1 Line 11 12 25 12 09 ssue2 A mark can include a note typed into the multi line edit box The note will be included when the line containing the mark is copied and pasted into word processing software as long as the toggle to display marks 1s on If there is enough room with the current display settings any notes that are written will appear on the right side of the text The notes will wrap to several lines if necessary These same notes will appear on the printout The note column will also have Page NNN displayed at the beginning of each page in the document so you can tell where you are in the document Also you can attach one or more document graphic or spreadsheet files Once a file is attached you can open it by double clicking on the file name i
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8. Mark the Realtime radio button Click OK to begin the realtime job At this point you or the other user s can open Bridge and connect to your output The Bridge user simply goes to File Connect Ctrl T See below for additional Bridge settings When you are finished writing realtime press Shift Alt T or use the Production menu Stop translation command Note The realtime settings can be made once and left alone for subsequent realtime jobs You do not need to reset them each time you open a realtime file HE Dome WINDOW The Bridge Window consists of the Menu bar the Toolbar the text area and the Status Bar The Toolbar and Status Bar can be toggled on or off by selecting or deselecting them in the View menu Menu bar Toolbar Status Bar CLASS Bri ge Seles File Edit View Help Deh BSK A QQ LA U Mm ake S BEE O How do you global in more then one stroke l2 45 57 10 10 A Let s say you have a word like oxygen l2 245 57 10 11 You press TELH once for each stroke ee ao LU lz a How do vou global in a plede of 1 5511510 1 punctuation like a comma For Help press Fl Page 1 Line 9 1225 5710 General NAVIGATING IN BRIDGE Using Bridge to follow the creation of a transcript in Realtime you can move around in the document using the following keys 1 The up 7 and down arrow keys move the cursor up or down one line 2 The Page up and Page down keys move the cursor up or down on
9. e screen 3 The Home key moves the cursor to the beginning of the transcript 4 The End key moves the cursor to the end of the transcript If a Realtime session 1s in progress the cursor goes to the end and continues to follow along as text is created 5 Pressing the Enter key opens the Annotation dialog box to place a mark on the line containing the cursor 6 Pressing the Space bar places a General mark on the line containing the cursor If there is already a specific issue mark on the line pressing the Space bar changes it to a General mark Pressing the Space bar again on the same line or on another line containing a General mark removes the mark Menus There are four drop down menus in Bridge File Edit View and Help THe Fie Menu Hotkey Alt F The File menu controls functions that affect the entire document Use the File menu to create New Open Save Print rename Save As or Export a document The File menu also offers the options to Setup your connection settings and Connect to a realtime session The File menu also keeps a list of recently opened documents a handy shortcut for getting to frequently used files To open one of the listed files simply click on the filename appearing on the recent documents list New Hotkey Ctrl N Toolbar button R This option opens a new blank document Use this when you want to start a new session If vou already have a document loaded when you hit the connect button
10. ers Gi Toggle marks Show or hide the marks A Spacing Change the line spacing EJ Font Set the display font A Zoom in Magnifu the display D Zoom out Shrink the display ci Mark Create or edit a mark note annotation A Find Find text mark or note oh Find next Find the next instance of the text or mark dh A Find previous Find the previous instance of the text or mark A d About Display program information version and copyright Play Play the audio or video for this section p gt flppenpix B SHORTCUT TABLE Keystroke Function Ctrl N New file BA L Deleteamak O 20 INDEX ALLA Si kn 3 Allow backspaces 3 E Stier Ch a EE 5 10 11 12 A U CIUS s ti O one olo nt 3 EENEG 3 8 COnN C eelere 1 4 6 8 9 18 20 CODY seda ac 10 18 20 PP XID OTD ee e 9 Pile Share sz a aa 8 EE BRAN E S E M 12 19 20 Fush Word DG lay u AN 4 POM EE 15 19 Force War OI deeg 3 Grete Started ascent sonar 2 lege 6 17 DS SUNS e 1 5 10 11 12 KOV SHOW Cege a 20 Line NUMO ESI sin dan 14 reen 16 19 ATK no son k ege 1 5 10 11 12 19 20 Mark EE 4 10 19 20 Maximum WPM es see oa 4 21 Menu Dall Stash tice sates ant oc oC 5 Multimedia settngg 8 RE d PER A o v 1 3 4 8 KT 6 15 20 OPE eee ee eee ere pen eee 6 8 11 18 20 EIERE ee 2 PAST Stade a oa dea o 10 18 20 PA Vol So 19 ENEE 9 ge 1 3 4 6 8 SANE izol t oa 1 6 7 9 18 20 Searc NNOO OX GE 12 SE
11. g Mac roz starting Indentation Foreground Attribute Background Caption channel SCT Mode Encoder Hangup mode 4 From the drop down list of Comm device choose to send the output to a COM port or to send the text to a file on a network The Bridge user or users can then connect to the file on the network a Ifusing a COM port choose Com port and select Setup gt gt Choose the port you are using from the list and set the Baud rate to 38K 35400 b Ifsharing the file over a network or running Bridge on the same computer on which you are running Total Eclipse choose File sharing and select Setup gt gt The Browse for Folder dialog box will open allowing you to select the location for the shared file Browse For Folder PMAIL Program Files i Advantage Software Eclipsent j EclipseMT Backups Users 3rdTutor LH asi docs I Blocks G Hilson D w WM Make New Folder 5 Under Output characteristics you can make choices that affect the way your text will appear in the Bridge file a Apply edits When selected your editing changes will appear on the Bridge output The edits will be applied when the cursor moves to the next paragraph b Allow backspaces Leave this option off 1f you do NOT wish to allow backspace characters to back up over existing text Note that you can still delete one word in realtime even if this option is turned off c
12. here they appear Any notes that are written will appear on the right side of the text The notes will wrap to several lines if necessary Export The Export function will export the contents of a Bridge file to an ASCII file THe Com Menu Hotkey AIt E Contains commands appropriate to the file currently open Copy Hotkey Ctrl C Toolbar button You can copy part or all of the document and paste it into any Windows software Highlight the portion of the document you wish to copy using your mouse or Shift plus up or down arrow keys and choose Edit Copy or Ctrl C Then open your word processing software Notepad Wordpad Word etc and choose Paste Ctrl V to insert the selected text Whatever is visible when you highlight the text marks timecodes line numbers will be included 1n the copying process If marks are included the type of mark will be noted and any accompanying notes will also be displayed in the pasted document Paste Hotkey Ctrl V Toolbar button This option places text from the Windows clipboard into an annotation associated with a mark in Bridge First place text from any source word processor spreadsheet etc on the Windows clipboard using Ctrl C Place your cursor on the line where you want to place the mark with the information and choose Edit Paste or Ctrl V A mark will be placed on that line with the text in the note Mark soot Hotkey Enter Toolbar button This option opens the
13. it ADDS the new text to the existing document You only use New if you want to start with a blank document Open Hotkey Ctrl O Toolbar button JE Opens the Open file dialog box Look ir Bridge ee EZ CL es bro File name CLASS bg Files of type Bridge Files D bra x Cancel You use the Open option to view a previously saved file Save Hotkey Ctrl S Toolbar button KR Saves a previously saved file If the file has not been saved the Save As dialog box opens and you can name the file and save it Save as Opens the Save as file dialog box Save As Save it Bridge m EZ Bac Leg File name ELASS Save as type Bridge Files D bra Cancel This menu choice gives you the option to save the file with a different name or in a different folder Export Exports the contents of a Bridge file to an ASCII file Setup Hotkey Ctrl U Toolbar button A Opens the Settings dialog box settings Protocol LawBridge Comm port 1 Baud 38400 Note colum 60 Multimedia Cancel Within the Settings dialog box The Protocol drop down list contains these choices RT Standard format Caseview Livenote Summation ANSI LawBridge Comm port radio button spin control to choose which COM port you will use to attach to the computer running CAT software Baud rate drop down list 1200 2400 4800
14. ith each file opening in a separate Bridge window BASIC PROCEDURE A typical realtime Bridge session might include five general steps 1 Connect to the court reporter and open Bridge which creates a new document Choose preferences for working with the transcript 2 3 Connect to the transcript 4 Follow and interact with the transcript during the proceeding 5 Save the file optional GETTING STARTED Tora Ecupse Serup PROcEDURE In order to send a transcript to a user running Bridge the Total Eclipse user must first add the Bridge settings to Total Eclipse If not using Total Eclipse skip to Navigating in Bridge 1 Go to User Settings Alt U Realtime 2 Your basic Realtime settings Flush Delay Pending translation display Follow always and Division interval will apply to the Total Eclipse document and have no bearing on the Bridge document 3 In the Output format list box see if Bridge LawBridge Tele View is listed If 1t 1s select 1t and choose Change b Ifitis not listed select Add and the Output format dialog box will open From the drop down list of Output formats choose Bridge LawBridge TeleView W Output format Output format EL Z late etd ie helt Comm device File sharing wi Setup Output characteristics Apply edits All caps Auto cial Flush word delay Alo backspaces Force margins Timeout to blank Left margin Wait time to blank Sot er
15. n the edit box to select 1t and clicking on Open The Annotation sample below has both a note typed in the edit box and a text file attached Annotation EN lesue Jesus lt C Program hle Advantage Software Bridge class tks gt This i a note added to this mark To include additional information you can attach a document or other file as shown above Attach pen Cancel Quick mark Hotkey Space This option places a General mark at the cursor without opening the Annotation dialog box To change the mark to a different issue or add notes etc cursor to the line containing the mark and press Enter The dialog will open and you can edit the mark 11 Delete mark Hotkey Del This option will delete the mark from the line at the cursor position It will also delete any associated notes and attached files Find Hotkey Ctrl F Toolbar button A This option opens the Find dialog box Search for or Find lssue or Find Page f Line Search Note text Cancel Here you can search for a text string by entering the text in the Search for data field You can also use the Find Issue drop down list The list will contain all issue types used in marks You can also use the Find Page Line option to search for a particular page or line You can use the Search Note text check box to include notes in the search If the text is found in a note the search will position the curso
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17. r on the line whose mark includes the text in its note Press Enter to open the Annotation and view the note containing the text string specified Find Next di Hotkey F3 Toolbar button This option will move the cursor to the next instance of the specified text or issue Find Previous Hotkey Shift F3 Toolbar button A This option will move the cursor to the previous instance of the specified text or issue IZ THe View Menu Hotkey Alt V This menu contains commands appropriate to the file currently open Toolbar 1 Status Bar This option toggles the toolbar near the top of the page on or off Tess TU Precision ws Line Numbers Status Bar w Marks Font This option toggles the status bar at the bottom of the page on or off Zoom In zoom UE Spacing limecodes Toolbar button This option toggles the display of timecodes on or off Timecode Precision Toolbar button G i This option toggles the display of timecodes to hours eh PARA ana Gh iel m How do vou global in more then one st Le A Let s say vou have a word like oxygq Le You press TELH once for each stroke hours and minutes Zl a d Za A V ar S Lea How do vou global in more then one d A Let s say you have a word like o l2 25 You press TELH once for each stroke hours minutes and seconds 13 DSM B RMAA ALU A UM ak S A A m O How do vou global in more then JA n A Let s
18. stronger Zoom in or weaker Zoom out magnifying glasses The Zoom in and Zoom out buttons on the toolbar control zooming 15 Both buttons use a magnifying glass icon the difference is that zoom in has a plus sign on it and zoom out has a minus sign The zoom in magnifies the display to show the document in greater detail The zoom out reduces the display to show more of the document in the available display area Each click of a zoom button changes the display incrementally Spacing Choosing this menu option toggles the line spacing of the document you are viewing moving through single spacing 1 5 spacing and double spacing 16 THe Heu Menu Hotkey Alt H Helo Topics Opens the Bridge Help file About Bridge Toolbar button This menu option displays the Bridge version number and copyright information This information may be utilized during troubleshooting by ASI support 17 flppenpx A Toousar BUTTONS Connect Connect to Realtime data stream Setup Setup communications oF New Create a new document Open Open an existing document Tu Lai Save Save the active document k Print Prints the Bridge file as it appears on the screen s Copy Copy the selection and put it on the clipboard Paste Insert clipboard contents Ce loggle timecodes Show or hide timecodes Timecode precision Set the timecode display precision D loggle line numbers Show or hide the line numb
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