Hi Joanie, You are absolutely right. What an idiot I am! What is even more embarrassing is that I had actually created the Style first, in order to write up how to do it. I've revised the instructions below - let's just hope I am more awake this morning than I was last night! Many thanks for being so quite to spot it. George. Hi George, maybe I'm confused.... But wouldn't you want [fr] to come before [:] as what you are flushing right is the word group enclosed by [:][;]? --Joanie Hi Ray, Thank you for calling today, and hope you won't mind me replying to one of your questions for the potential benefit of others. This is regarding flush right of a line of text. You will only need to do the following once per Template. To provide this as a Style for long term use, we need to open a new file using a Template which we wish to modify. Go to DBT's Document menu, and Select "Add Style". For "New Style Name", let's call it "address." - That is without the quotes, and specifically WITH a full stop or period. Press Enter. For the "Beginning Style", press Ctrl + [ (Left square bracket) and type "fr" - without the quotes Now press the End key. Press Ctrl + [ again and this time type ":" - (colon) again without the quotes. Tab to the "Ending Style" text box. Press Ctrl + [ and type ; (Semi-colon) Press the OK button. All being well, you now have created a new Style called "address." Go to the document menu, and select "Create Template". In the Template list, select the Template you initially used at the start. Press the OK button. You will be asked if you wish to overwrite the existing Template. Yes. All being well, if you wish to right justify one line of text, you can now simply apply the address. Style to the line. George. -----Original Message----- From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray Dawson Sent: 11 March 2005 10:25 To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [duxuser] Re: New user needs basics In article <00e001c525e1$8c6473f0$f07a94d1@teri>, Terri Pannett <pann1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Duxbury will automatically translate paragraphs correctly. But for > some reason unknown to me, it offen interprets ASCII text documents as > poetry. But the poem code can be deleted. > Actually, centering text is simple. Place your cursor at the > beginning of the text to be centered. Press f8 to bring up the styles list. > press h. That should bring you to the heading style. Press enter. > Your text will be centered like a heading. You don't have the > highlight anything to get the style to work. Thanks Terri. Perhaps I should explain the way I work at present - which is on a different platform to Windows. Most of the documents I receive for brailling are print which I scan to extract the text. I then go through the text inserting codes - all of which are on keystrokes - to tell the braille software to centre, right align, or italicise. I can also put a code in front of characters which need lettersigns etc. I then skim through the braille file in computer braille to remove widows and orphans etc. It's a very quick process. However, my current braille software hasn't been supported for years and in the UK we have some major changes to English braille. I'm looking for Windows software that has either adopted the changes already, or will be in the near future. Neither of the other two braille software packages in the UK intend to make those changes and Winbraille doesn't even produce braille to the current English rules. I was hoping that DBT would be suitable, but so far haven't managed to make it do simple things. I have been through the Help file, but can't find ways of doing simple things. For Italic, it says no keystroke. For Centering, highlight and press Shift F7. For Right Align it seems to require separate codes inserted, but so far I can only align one word. There doesn't seem to be a keystroke for what is a basic facility. I have set up the embosser options for A4 paper 30 chacters wide, but the DBT translation comes out at 40 characters. What I was looking for in the Help, or elswhere was a list of keypresses - or the means of setting them up - to do my basic requirements. Once I know that DBT can do them I would purchase it and progress to using it for Word documents etc. I also haven't yet found a way of adding exceptions and changing rules etc. Is there a way of doing this? Cheers, Ray D * * * * This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org. * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with * unsubscribe * as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. 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