[duxuser] Re: DBT Wish List

Do Somebody speak spanish and write spanish?

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De: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
En nombre de George Bell
Enviado el: Jueves, 24 de Octubre de 2002 12:19 p.m.
Para: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [duxuser] Re: DBT Wish List


Hi Alan,

Replies after brief requote.

> 1. (like everyone else; but it's worth while re-iterating)  UNDO! 
> UNDO! UNDO! UNDO! UNDO! ... A.S.A.P

Well up the list, but may not make this design of DBT.  
 
> 2. Wouldn't it be nice if the cursor stayed in the same position in 
> the Braille file after translation from the print file? It's annoying 
> if you want to check (e.g.) formatting quickly, to continually have to

> search thru from the start of the file.

I do agree here, and that's speaking from personal experience of having
to handle large files where you want to check the effect of a specific
change.
 
> 2. I do most of my transcription in direct entry (six key) because (a)

> I am fluent in Braille and (b) I do lots of maths (Australian code) 
> and chemistry which requires strange and scary formatting, and (c) I 
> don't need to use anywhere near as many codes etc. to do that 
> formatting.  However it also means that it is near impossible to 
> back-translate from the Braille file to a print file 'cos it drops a 
> lot of the formatting when you do. Could you fix this problem?

Did you ever see the British program called, "Jim 'll Fix it"?  Well I
rather suspect Jim would have more luck here!  (Smile) Back translation
of plain old text braille is tricky, but add maths and chemistry, and
you open a hornet's nest.  That's not to say it will never be possible,
but personally I'd have to ask how long it would take to recover the
cost of development.

> 3. I would like to edit a code by putting the cursor on the number & 
> changing it. E.g. [tabX] to [tabY] without having to re-enter the 
> whole code each time.

That issue has been added to the database of feature requests.  I'd hope
it will make the next release.

> 4. I would like to delete a series of codes thru the whole file even 
> though they have a different value. E.g. [svpfd12],[svpfd13],[svpfd14]

> etc.

Not impossible to add wildcards, I just don't know how tricky it would
be, but I'll ask.

> 5. I have a bug (I think it's a bug!) where if I minimize and then 
> maximize the program I get a really small view which contains about 3 
> pages of braille. This is really handy for checking overall formatting

> across the file and would be good to have in the menu. E.g. "View" 
> menu full page (100%) > multi page (25%).

No no no!  DBT doesn't have bugs!  It's a feature - don't you know?
They just didn't tell you about it.  (Huge smile!) Seriously though, the
concept is good, and in fact a feature of Word for Windows which lets a
sighted person get an overall visual picture of the document.

George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd 
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