[duxuser] Re: Learning to use Dbt win
- From: dg140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles Pond)
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:26:46 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Donald. How do you bring in the ASCII file? The DBT importer should
have a setting to handle paragraphs or line reaturns with and without
carriage rturns. Have you tried to save that text file in a wordprocessor
which DBT recognizes, and then import that file into DBT?
I'v done this successfully when importing text files generated either by a
Braille Lite, or files which were originally generated in WP and then
saved as ASCII.
Charles
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>Hello,
>
>Although I bought this program well over a year ago, for me at least,
>learning to use it has been a totally frustrating experience. While I do
>not wish to be too quick to blame the program's documentation, it doesn't
>seem to me that the docs begin at the beginning and then have a logical
>progression including meaningful examples. However, to be honest, I haven't
>read that much of the documentation, possibly because I learned braille as a
>child and have used both Nfbtrans and Turbo Braille without difficulty for
>many years.
>
>I won't waste your time generalizing because I wanted to bring up a specific
>situation for which I just cannot figure the solution. I have an
>alphabetized list of phone numbers which is perhaps 18 K in size which was
>written as a dos ascii text file, one name and number per line. When I
>imported this file into Dbt Win version 10.4, all of the crlf pairs had been
>removed. This was true regardless of whether I said that the file was
>formatted ms dos or formatted windows. When I turned on reveal codes or
>whatever you call it with alt f3, no line breaks were shown.
>
>So what am I missing? So how soon will Dbt for dummies be available? I
>understand how to set up the embosser and printer, etc., it is just this
>business of styles which I find somewhat daunting. Stated another way, the
>process of translation and embossing works fine for me. Conversely, proper
>formatting is for me a real challenge.
>
>Thanks for listening.
>
>Don Roberts
>
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