[duxuser] Re: New user needs basics
- From: "Terri Pannett" <pann1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:44:35 -0800
Dear Ray,
I know it takes time to learn DBT. But it will do almost everything you
want it to.
I'm sure that George can help you and that he would agree with me that (1)
styles will accomplish the same thing as codes do and they do a better job
of it; (2) You can always use Word to straighten out the print document
and then import that same document into DBT. In the DOS days, I used to
import files from good old WordPerfect 5.1. Now, I edit all my files using
my BrailleNote, export them to WP5.1 and import them into DBT.
I'll explain the centering codes and flush right. To center text:
1. Place your cursor at the beginning of the text you want to center.
2. Press control plus left bracket. If you have the codes view turned on,
you'll see your cursor is between two brackets.
3. Type the letters hds. Press right arrow to get out of the brackets and
press enter.
4. Go to the end of the text you want centered and press control left
bracket.
5. Type the letters hde, get out of the brackets and press enter.
To flush right text:
1. Go to the text you want to be on the right side of the paper.
2. If the text has more than one word, you must delete the normal space
between words and use the hard space or binding space. To make a hard
space, press alt plus f2.
2. After you replace the spaces with hard spaces, go to the beginning of
the text and press shift f7.
I hope my instructions weren't too confusing!
Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Dawson" <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 2:25 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: New user needs basics
> In article <00e001c525e1$8c6473f0$f07a94d1@teri>, Terri Pannett
> <pann1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Duxbury will automatically translate paragraphs correctly. But for
> > some reason unknown to me, it offen interprets ASCII text documents as
> > poetry. But the poem code can be deleted.
>
> > Actually, centering text is simple. Place your cursor at the beginning
> > of the text to be centered. Press f8 to bring up the styles list.
> > press h. That should bring you to the heading style. Press enter.
> > Your text will be centered like a heading. You don't have the
> > highlight anything to get the style to work.
>
> Thanks Terri. Perhaps I should explain the way I work at present - which
> is on a different platform to Windows.
>
> Most of the documents I receive for brailling are print which I scan to
> extract the text.
>
> I then go through the text inserting codes - all of which are on
> keystrokes - to tell the braille software to centre, right align, or
> italicise. I can also put a code in front of characters which need
> lettersigns etc.
>
> I then skim through the braille file in computer braille to remove widows
> and orphans etc.
>
> It's a very quick process.
>
> However, my current braille software hasn't been supported for years and
> in the UK we have some major changes to English braille. I'm looking for
> Windows software that has either adopted the changes already, or will be
> in the near future. Neither of the other two braille software packages in
> the UK intend to make those changes and Winbraille doesn't even produce
> braille to the current English rules.
>
> I was hoping that DBT would be suitable, but so far haven't managed to
> make it do simple things. I have been through the Help file, but can't
> find ways of doing simple things. For Italic, it says no keystroke. For
> Centering, highlight and press Shift F7. For Right Align it seems to
> require separate codes inserted, but so far I can only align one word.
> There doesn't seem to be a keystroke for what is a basic facility.
>
> I have set up the embosser options for A4 paper 30 chacters wide, but the
> DBT translation comes out at 40 characters.
>
> What I was looking for in the Help, or elswhere was a list of keypresses
> - or the means of setting them up - to do my basic requirements. Once I
> know that DBT can do them I would purchase it and progress to using it
> for Word documents etc.
>
> I also haven't yet found a way of adding exceptions and changing rules
> etc. Is there a way of doing this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ray D
>
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