[duxuser] Re: Symbols

  • From: "Karina Gregory" <Karina.Gregory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:04:32 -0000

Dear Steve,

I have seen the at sign written as the t h e sign in email addresses.  Is
there no way of getting Duxbury to translate that way?  Most publications
use it in their email addresses.

Any help is much appreciated.  Thanks.

Karina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dresser" <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:58 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Symbols


> Karina,
>
> What you've described is normal behavior for DBTW because there are no
> representations for these characters in translated braille.  If you want a
> character such as the at sign to remain untranslated, you could use the
[q]
> code to force DBTW to write out the symbol.  For example, to write the at
> sign, you would code [q~@].  This also means that you could write anything
> you want in place of the at sign by using it as the parameter of the [q]
code.
>
> Steve
>
> On Sunday 11/28/04 12:08 Karina Gregory wrote:
>
> >Dear List Members,
> >
> >Please can someone advise of what I can do to enable DBT 10.5 to
recognise
> >symbols such as @ and backslash, as at the moment it is writing them out
> >in words.
> >
> >Thank you for your help and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
> >
> >Karina
>
>
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