[duxhelp] Re: Optional hyphens
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- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:23:34 -0400
Proper or not, this has been the preferred method for getting text into
DBT for some time (years) in our shop.
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| Michael Surato |
| Resource Center for Persons |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Warren Figueiredo
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:19 PM
> To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Optional hyphens
>
> Is it proper to "paste" anything into Duxbury?
> I really didn't think that this was an option.
> Warren
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Surato
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:54 AM
> To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxhelp] Optional hyphens
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently I have been made aware of another difference between
> opening a document and a cut-and-paste operation. When a
> document contains "optional hyphens" they are printed in
> Braille as two cells containing dots 3 and 5 when
> cut-and-pasted into a document, they are dropped when opening
> the Word file directly. I have attached our current "torture"
> file for the beta process. This contains all of the
> characters we have historically experienced problems with. In
> this file there are some corrected errors as well as some
> current issues. The corrected errors are tabs and quotes
> (thank you very much). In addition to the optional hyphens,
> the apostrophe character is still giving us some trouble.
> When cut-and-pasted in, DBT translates this to two cells, one
> cell is dots 3, 5, and 6 and the other is dot 6. This is
> similar to a single ending quote, but the second cell is a
> dot 6 rather than a dot 3. While this is still not an
> apostrophe, I am wondering if this is a valid Braille
> character at all, or if this represents two issues? If it is
> a valid character, which character is it?
>
> This document was pasted into Beta 6.
>
> Thank you very much for working on this! The progress on
> these issues are very much appreciated!
>
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> | Michael Surato |
> | Resource Center for Persons |
> | with Disabilities |
> | Michigan State University |
> | 120 Bessey Hall |
> | East Lansing, MI 48824 |
> | Voice: (517) 353-9643 Fax: (517) 432-3191 |
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>
>
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