[duxuser] Re: New user needs basics - Right alignment.
- From: "Terri Pannett" <pann1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 07:46:27 -0800
If you write more than one word, you must put a hard space between the
words.
Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 2:42 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: New user needs basics - Right alignment.
> 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
>
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