[duxuser] Re: Automatic paragraph styles in 10.5
- From: Dave Durber <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:21:39 -0500
Hello Steve, Ann and Listers:
While Steve's suggestion is probably the correct solution for a
document that will contain block paragraphs from beginning to end, it
is cumbersome if a document is to contain a mixture of standard
formatted braille paragraphs and block braille paragraphs.
The reason for this, is that you would have to remember to insert the
[svprgn:n] code before each paragraph code or style when you wanted to
change from one paragraph type to the other, as follows:
[svprg0:1]
prior to starting block paragraphs, so that all paragraphs are blocked
to the left margin and have a blank line before and after each block
paragraph; and
[svprg3:0]
prior to starting standard formatted paragraphs, where the first line
of each paragraph is indented to cell 3 and there is no blank line
before and after each paragraph.
The beauty and advantage of creating styles which contain the correct
codes built into them, is that if you construct the style correctly to
produce the desired result, you do not have to remember anything else,
except apply the correct style at the appropriate places throughout
any document where you want those types of styles.
This is why when I am preparing documents for transcription to
braille, I style code documents as much as possible instead of
manually coding documents.
Some of the advantages of using styles, are as follows: virtually
eliminates the mistyping the syntax in codes; minimizes the
possibility of leaving out a code in a string of codes; avoids having
to search for strings of codes in order to make changes especially if
you do not enter a string of codes in the same order throughout a
document.
On the other hand, if you want to change a code or parameter within a
code that is contained in a style to alter the output, you only have
to edit a code or codes contained in a style to affect the output
globally throughout a document, where that style is used.
In 1995, I transcribed the "JAWS for DOS" manual". I manually coded
the file from beginning to end. I took nearly four weeks to produce
the completed work. It contained 6 volumes and had approximately 700
sides of braille.
Last year, I transcribed "Verbal View of Word Basics". Except for a
few codes that needed to be entered manually, I used styles 98% of the
time to produce the finished book. It contains 7 volumes and has 986
sides of braille. It took me 10, 8 hour days to produce the book.
The two examples, do not include the proofreading time.
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
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