[duxuser] Re: A couple of general Duxbury questions
- From: Lloyd Rasmussen <lras@xxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:41:49 -0400
I don't recommend copying stuff into DBT by means of the clipboard. It is
better to use the various file conversion facilities of DBT and your other
programs. Some experimentation is necessary.
For some ASCII files I am happy with importing them directly into DBT as
formatted text; often the results are not what I want, with too many things
interpreted as tables or with very long lines truncated. I run WordPerfect
or Word and import the ASCII file into one of those programs, then use DBT
on the resulting WPD or DOC file. I have not gotten beyond 10.4 yet.
Hope this helps.
At 03:10 AM 9/28/2007, you wrote:
Donald Roberts's message seems to have got stuck in the
system somewhere, so I am forwarding it here.
George.
Hello,
I am using Duxbury 10.4 although I doubt that the version
number
matters in this instance.
Question 1. I often have occasion to copy text from a web
page
into the windows clipboard and from there into a DXP file.
Why
is it that the apostrophe characters which are present when
I
read the web page are inexplicably stripped out after I have
pasted said material into the DXP file? And, what can I do
to
preclude this from happening?
Question 2. Did Dave Derber ever come out with the tutorial
which he was preparing regarding the creation of styles and
templates?
Question 3. In version 10.4, if I import an ascii text file
into
Duxbury, the carriage returns are stripped out. The only
way
that I have found to deal with this is to open the text
file,
copy it into the clipboard, and paste it into a DXP file.
While
this is not a big deal, is there a better way to deal with
this
problem?
Thanks in advance for feedback.
Don Roberts
Lloyd Rasmussen, Acting Head, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <http://www.loc.gov/nls>
HOME: <http://lras.home.sprynet.com>
The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent
those of NLS.
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