[duxhelp] Re: Optional hyphens
- From: "Michael Surato" <suratomi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:17:13 -0400
Clipbook file as requested.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Sullivan
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:55 PM
> To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Optional hyphens
>
> Mike & Michael,
>
> There is, should you care to explore it, a clipboard viewer
> program supplied with Windows XP. This program can be run by
> entering "clipbrd.exe" at the Start, Run prompt.
>
> I believe that, were Michael to run that program, he could
> save the contents of his clipboard just before attemping the
> paste into DBT. He could then e-mail the clipboard contents
> file to Mike, who could open it and then paste into DBT to
> see the problem firsthand.
>
> The ClipBook Viewer, as this program is called, requires that
> a service be running in order for it to work. However, for
> somebody with a bit of IT know-how, as you two definitely
> have, this shouldn't be a problem.
>
> - Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Gorse
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:44 PM
> To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Optional hyphens
>
> Michael,
>
> I have just mostly fixed the problem you reported with
> apostrophes not being translated correctly when pasting from
> Word, but, when I paste your document, no character shows up
> in DBT where the hyphen would be. What operating system and
> version of Word are you using? (I'm using Word 2000 under XP
> Pro.) Could you send me a .dxp resulting from pasting your
> document into DBT?
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Surato" <suratomi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:54 AM
> 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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