[duxuser] Re: Automatic paragraph styles in 10.5
- From: "Foxworth, Ann" <Ann.Foxworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:19:03 -0600
Well, I'm the biggest dummie in the world because, even after all the
advice you all have given me about how to create such a style, I still
can not do it in real life. I wonder why there aren't any styles
already available in Duxbury to address differing paragraph styles. I
hope that in some future version, the Word importer will either have a
choice for the ones most commonly used or a "none" setting so that we
can expect Duxbury to utilize the paragraph style we set up in our Word
docs.
Ann Foxworth, Braille Consultant
Div. for Blind Services
4800 N. Lamar BLVD
Austin, TX 78756
PH: 512-377-0471,
E-mail: ann.foxworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Behalf Of Dave Durber
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:22 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Automatic paragraph styles in 10.5
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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