[duxhelp] Re: Strange file containing brackets
- From: "Westmoreland, J. R." <jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 10:37:49 -0600
George,
I have had strange issues with the text being bold versus italics but
not for a while.
I have enough versions of things installed now I have to go back and
check to see what and where I did it. <grin>
Peter, might this be a case of possibly doing an ignore emphasis in the
.mws file for these kinds of input?
J. R.
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:33 AM
To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Strange file containing brackets
Peter,
I fear we have perhaps stepped into a veritable mine field with this.
I've just done a quick experiment with a couple of Word's Headings. DBT
seems to ignore Bold and Italics, not just for the entire heading, but
for individual words selected and changed "for emphasis", such is the
second line of the attached.
George.
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Sullivan
Sent: 09 May 2006 17:24
To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Strange file containing brackets
George,
I haven't gone back to visit David's file since receiving some extra
information from him this morning.
But what you propose does make some sense as a possible source of the
trouble.
The goal of DBT's importer is to indicate emphasis, not to show
typographical convention.
Consider the case of a level-two heading style in Word, where text set
in the style is automatically italicized.
The italics should not normally be shown in braille (at least not per
the rules with which I'm most familiar) because the italics are a
typographical convention, not an indication of emphasis. Instead, the
braille should show un-emphasized text set as a level-two heading.
But further consider that the user wants to italicize text within the
line
-- to indicate a word or two that are particularly emphasized within the
heading. The print convention for this is to revert the emphasized
words to the non-italicized form. DBT attempts to indicate the emphasis
then by looking for places where the text is in a typographical form
distinct from what is defined for the paragraph style in which it is
defined.
All of which is to say that the code is attempting to be be pretty
"smart"
in cases that we considered during the design phase of the Word
importer; and it may simply be getting tripped up on itself when it
encounters the case that David brought to our attention.
- Peter
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:15 PM
To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Strange file containing brackets
Hi David and Peter,
This appears to be one of those nasty, nasty Wordisms that has driven us
bonkers for ages.
If you look very closely at the Bold version of the file, you will see
that ONLY the letter is italicised.
Now highlight (A) and click on the Italic Icon.
Note how the A is no longer Italicised.
I could be wrong, but in removing the Italics and Bold (per David's
non-bold file), I suspect what Word is actually doing, is to put an
"Invert Character Attribute" code in (which perhaps DBT is not picking
up), rather than "removing" the attribute itself.
Then again, as the colloquialism goes, I could be "away with the
fairies".
George.
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Spybey
Sent: 09 May 2006 16:06
To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxhelp] Strange file containing brackets
Peter
Most of the material that I prepare starts off as a print file for our
partially sighted pupils and it is usually in large print and bold. I
sometimes forget unbold the whole document before translating it hence
the bold version of the file I got the strange results with. As a rule I
would expect all the bold and other unnecessary emphasis marking to be
removed as it is not helpful to the Braille reader.
In the file I sent I can see that the capital A is in italics but I
would still not expect to get what is happening but rather
7.,a7
Whilst I might prefer it to have no italic sign at all I would not
expect DBT to understand my preference if I am perverse enough to ask it
to translate a file that I have provided with italics in it!
There is clearly something peculiar about the files I sent but I cannot
see what it is.
David Spybey
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Sullivan
Sent: 08 May 2006 19:36
To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in documents
David,
Thanks for sending the .tex files (off-list). As you mentioned, these
aren't really necessary to my analysis, because the problem shows up
also
(or perhaps exclusively) when importing from Word.
I'm now puzzled about what you want in the translation in this case.
You
mention that you would expect (A) to be: 7;,a7
Does that mean that you expect emphasis markings to be ignored in this
case?
- Peter
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[mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Spybey
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:34 AM
To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in documents
Peter
The file that caused the problem is attached. However I need to amend
what I
have said slightly.
I used Word2Tex, as I usually do, to change the file into a .tex file
that
SN will read. I did not check the SN file before using DBT and got the
result I mentioned. Looking more closely at the WORD original the A was
italic not the closing bracket. In SN this came out as the opening
bracket
in text the A and the closing bracket in Math and hence the result I got
in
DBT. I should have spotted this fact so apologies for giving a false
impression of the problem.
I was going into SN because of all the mathematics that was in the WORD
file
in MathType and the route I follow gets that into reasonable braille
mathematics. However, if you ignore the mathematics issues and just got
straight into DBT from the files I have attached the The results of
going
straight into DBT
The version with (A) in bold gives
7..,a.'.17.'
And the version witgh (A) in non bold gives
.7.,a.17.'
Whereas I would expect (A) to be
7;,a7
as happens in other files. So there must be something rather peculiar
about
the two WORD files that I have attached. I have looked at them but
cannot
see what would cause such peculiar results.
David
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Peter Sullivan
Sent: 04 May 2006 16:56
To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in documents
David,
Do you have a sample file in the format from which you started (e.g.
Word,
Scientific Notebook, text, or HTML)?
- Peter
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Spybey
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:02 AM
To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in documents
Peter
It is strange how mistakes show up errors!
I have just had
(A)
translated as
7,a>
rather than 7,a7
I could not understand why until I realised that the closing bracket was
in
italics by mistake. However I am not sure why DBT translated this as it
did.
David Spybey
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