[brailleblaster] Re: Compiled
- From: François Ouellette <braille@xxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:21:04 -0400
Vic: See my earlier reply to John about HTML and/or XML formatted
extract. I think it's a must. I will follow-up. I think we're getting
somewhere!
About the Recent Documents I found a little bug when we open an
existing UTD socument that we saved with text and Braille, the Braille
does not show up in the braille view. Easy fix.
François
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> François,
>
> I think this would be much preferred. Why would I even import anything Word
> would open and lose the formatting when I can convert it to XML from within
> Word and have the formatting preserved when I open it in BB. This seems
> great but I am a little confused about the purpose. If I import a document
> and get just a large lump of text, how can I create well formatted Braille
> out of it? Is BB going to have other methods for doing this? If the
> paragraphs are lost in importing, would I have to go back through the entire
> document and re-insert the paragraphs to get them in the translated Braille?
> Maybe I'm being dense, but I don't understand.
>
> I did just open a couple PDF documents. One didn't do so well and the other
> did great. The one that did great was in block style when it came up, i.e.
> blocks of text with a blank line between. When I translated it into Braille
> I got the same formatting. The blank lines were in the Braille and the first
> line of the new paragraph wasn't indented. Is this just something that needs
> worked on yet?
>
> BTW: The Recent Files dialog is better now. The Open dialog also seems
> better than it was. I still get some sluggishness but not as much. Now it
> seems that it is just when I am in the actual list of files. Before it was
> even tabbing between the controls.
>
> Great work François!!!!!! This is a leap forward!
>
>
> Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
>
> Vic
> E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of François Ouellette
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 3:04 PM
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Compiled
>
> (follow-up on previous email)
> Vic: it seems like we can produce formatted XML or HTML from the
> extraction, in which case we could retrieve the main formatting
> elements and replicate them in BB. Let me check on this.
>
> François.
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> John and François,
>>
>> I got it to compile. I opened a Word 2010 document with it. It seemed the
>> format of the text was missing. I don't think the paragraphs were still
>> intact.
>>
>> I will do more testing later. I am a little under the weather today and I
>> think I am going to go rest now. More later. Looks good so far.
>>
>>
>> Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
>>
>> Vic
>> E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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