[duxuser] Re: styles, styles and more s

  • From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:05:56 +0100


Hi Jo,

It's good to hear that you are experimenting with Styles in Word. I
guess the main ones for anyone new to the concept are Normal, and
Headings 1, 2 and 3.  These will map to DBT's para. and h1., h2. and
h3. Styles respectively.

In Braille terms these styles usually appear (or feel) as follows.  I
say "usually" because there may be variations in DBT's non-American
Templates.

Word's Normal, DBT's para. - This is the standard braille paragraph
Style which begins in cell 3, with run over lines in cell 1.

Word's Heading 1, DBT's h1. - This is centered and followed by a blank
line.

Words Heading 2 and above, DBT's h2. and above - These will begin in
cell 5 with a blank line before.

Visually in Word, it is difficult to be certain as again it can vary,
but the Normal Style might be in the order of 10 point Times New
Roman.  Heading 1 might be Bold 16 point, Heading 2 Bold 14 point, and
Heading 3 bold 12 point.

One of the important points is that if Styles such as the above are
used in Word, DBT will see and import them for what they are - normal
text or Headings.

However in Word, if you manipulate the attributes of the text instead,
to make something LOOK like a heading, then DBT will simply see normal
text which has been made bold, underlined and/or italicised.
Consequently you will find additional, usually unwanted, font
information in braille to tell you that the text is bold etc..

So what is the point of using Styles anyway?

Well in Word, if you decide for example that you want each Heading 1
to begin a new page, it's relatively easy to change that Style, and
all occurrences will be changed.  Likewise if you don't like a styles
font, that too can be changed, and everywhere that Style is used, it
will change.

Likewise in DBT, Styles can be changed.  It's not necessarily
something for the beginner to do, but it's not exactly rocket science
either.  Hence for example, if you wanted a blank line between
paragraphs, you could modify DBT's para. Style.

And if you have a long document, you can make things more navigable by
adding a Table of Contents.  But you can only do that automatically if
you have used proper Heading Styles, be it in Word of DBT.  In Word, a
Table of Contents can have what are called "Hyperlinks", and so if you
find the subject you are looking for in the Contents, you can jump
directly to that subject.  Likewise when you build a braille Table of
Contents in DBT, you can show print or braille page numbers and find
things much quicker.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jo Taliaferro
Sent: 01 August 2009 19:41
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] styles, styles and more s



Hi everybody,
I'm a little confused here.  I keep hearing that to work with Duxbury
most
efficiently, it's important to be familiar with  using styles in Word.
Well, where does one begin to learn and become comfortable with styles
so as
to use Duxbury most effectively?  I'm using Window-Eyes and
experimenting
with the use of different levels of headings and the shortcut keys but
that
doesn't always tell me what it looks like in print or how it will
"feel" in
braille when it's translated.   Is there a reference around comparing
the
style in a Word document to its equivalent in Duxbury?  Thank you.
Jo Taliaferro

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