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 > >* * * >* This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org. >* To unsubscribe, send a blank message with >* unsubscribe >* as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may >also >* subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other >subscription >* options by visiting //www.freelists.org. The list >archive >* is also located there. >* Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com >* * * > > > >This Message has been scanned for viruses by McAfee >Groupshield. >* * * >* 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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