[brailleblaster] Re: Format Contents
- From: Brandon Roller <brandon.r.roller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:39:43 -0400
Should that really be part of formatting? The others seem to be related to
line margin. Personally, I think alignment and justifying should be
seperate fields, but I guess that is a whole other issue.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think it treats it as computer braille and honors new-line chars, kind
> of like the <pre> element in HTML. I' not sure if it includes the start and
> end computer braille symbols. I suppose it does.****
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> *From:* brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Brandon Roller
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:06 PM
> *To:* brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [brailleblaster] Re: Format Contents****
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> LOL, well I had read that but was hoping someone could explain it in a
> clearer manner. So it is an adjusted index based on the margin is that the
> gist of it?****
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> Also, how exactly is computer code formatted in braille? ****
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> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx> wrote:****
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> From the manual although the language is pretty bad:****
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> The format setting controls how the text in the style will be formatted.
> Valid values are `leftJustified', `rightJustified', `centered', `
> computerCoded', `alignColumnsLeft', `alignColumnsRight', and `contents'.
> The first three are self-explanatory. `computerCoded' is used for
> computer programs and similar material. The next two are used for tabular
> material. `alignColumnsLeft' causes the left ends of columns to be
> aligned. `alignColumnsRight' causes the right ends of columns to be
> aligned. `contents' is used only in styles specifically intended for
> tables of contents. ****
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> The contents1, etc. styles all have the format contents setting. This is
> a variant of the leftJustified format. It has been necessary to change
> the way firstLineIndent is handled to accommodate multilevel lists. Up
> till now, if firstLineIndent was negative, the first line would start at
> the real left margin, regardless of the value of leftMargin. Now the
> value of firstLineIndent is simply added to leftMargin. This means that
> if it is negative it is really subtracted. For example, if leftMargin is
> 4 and firstLineIndent is -2 the first line will start in cell 2. If the
> result of adding these two values is negative it is set to 0. ****
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> *From:* brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Brandon Roller
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 31, 2013 1:04 PM
> *To:* brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [brailleblaster] Format Contents****
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> I am looking at the nimas.cfg file. What does format contents and also
> format computer coded mean?****
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