[duxuser] Re: dxb braille files
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:28:02 +0100
I hate to say this, but from your description, it does
rather appear that the file is not really being saved as a
proper Duxbury .dxb file and indeed is little more than a
.brf.
By the sound of it, your suggestion of back-translating and
re-styling in Word may probably be the best option in this
case.
George.
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jean
Menzies
Sent: 13 September 2008 15:42
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] dxb braille files
I normally don't work directly with dxb braille files, but I
have been asked to edit one at work. I have some questions.
This file was originally a Braille 2000 ABT file. It was
converted to dxb format in Braille 2000's Save As where you
can choose Duxbury dxb. When I open the file in Duxbury
10.7, I first get the warning about the file being created
with an earlier version of DBT ... that's fine. Then when I
look at the file there are virtually no codes. Maybe line
break codes, but nothing else. Headings are centred with
spaces. Page numbers are there as text as they would be in a
BRF file. The file is little more than a BRF file, and
editing will be very tedious.
I am pretty sure dxb files created via DBT contain codes. Am
I right with that? But is this normal for a so-called
conversion like this? My temtation is to back translate to a
DXP print file, copy and paste it back into Word and reapply
the codes, basically starting from scratch. It will mean
ignoring the braille work someone else did, but I think it
might be faster to follow the hard copy braille and reapply
styles once I remove all the endless blank lines and spaces.
Is there a better way to work with different types of
braille files from different programs like this? I can't
always be "redoing" files, and I'd like to get comfortable
with working directly in DBT for the times when that might
be the best option. But this one just looks to messy for my
liking.
Jean
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