David, By abbreviations, I assume you mean acronyms. The SWIFT utility (an add-in to Word) is made to handle these in a pre-processing pass. To do the job without SWIFT, you should make sure that such text is put in the <acronym> style. For a few acronyms in long documents, this is easily done with search/replace. But I do understand that the job becomes more burdensome as the number of different acronyms relative to the whole document size starts to increase. Best Regards, Peter -----Original Message----- From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Spybey Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:19 AM To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [duxhelp] More British Braille issues. In British Braille is there anything that can be done to deal with IT and AS which are used in sentences as abbreviations and so should not be contracted to 'x' and 'z' in Braille. David Spybey * * * * This message is via list duxhelp at freelists.org. * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with * unsubscribe * as the subject to <duxhelp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also * subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription * options by visiting //www.freelists.org. The list archive * is also located there. * Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com * * * * * * * This message is via list duxhelp at freelists.org. * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with * unsubscribe * as the subject to <duxhelp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also * subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription * options by visiting //www.freelists.org. The list archive * is also located there. * Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com * * *