[duxuser] Re: New user needs basics - Right alignment.

  • From: Dave Durber <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:50:09 -0500

Hello George:

I hope that the beer was a lot less cloudy in those glasses that you
drank from the night before than your mind was when you wrote the
style.

Smile.

Sincerely:

Dave Durber

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:42:04 -0000, you wrote:

>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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