If you write more than one word, you must put a hard space between the words. Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 2:42 AM Subject: [duxuser] Re: New user needs basics - Right alignment. > Hi Joanie, > > You are absolutely right. What an idiot I am! > > What is even more embarrassing is that I had actually > created the Style first, in order to write up how to do it. > > I've revised the instructions below - let's just hope I am > more awake this morning than I was last night! > > Many thanks for being so quite to spot it. > > George. > > Hi George, maybe I'm confused.... But wouldn't you want [fr] > to come before [:] as what you are flushing right is the > word group enclosed by [:][;]? > --Joanie > > > > Hi Ray, > > Thank you for calling today, and hope you won't mind me > replying to one of your questions for the potential benefit > of others. > > This is regarding flush right of a line of text. > > You will only need to do the following once per Template. > > To provide this as a Style for long term use, we need to > open a new file using a Template which we wish to modify. > > Go to DBT's Document menu, and Select "Add Style". > > For "New Style Name", let's call it "address." - That is > without the quotes, and specifically WITH a full stop or > period. > > Press Enter. > > For the "Beginning Style", press Ctrl + [ (Left square > bracket) and type "fr" - without the quotes > > Now press the End key. > > Press Ctrl + [ again and this time type ":" - (colon) again > without the quotes. > > Tab to the "Ending Style" text box. > > Press Ctrl + [ and type ; (Semi-colon) > > Press the OK button. > > All being well, you now have created a new Style called > "address." > > Go to the document menu, and select "Create Template". In > the Template list, select the Template you initially used at > the start. > > Press the OK button. You will be asked if you wish to > overwrite the existing Template. Yes. > > All being well, if you wish to right justify one line of > text, you can now simply apply the address. Style to the > line. > > George. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray > Dawson > Sent: 11 March 2005 10:25 > To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 > > * * * > * This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org. > * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with > * unsubscribe > * as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may > also > * subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other > subscription > * options by visiting //www.freelists.org. The list > archive > * is also located there. > * Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com > * * * > > > > This Message has been scanned for viruses by McAfee > Groupshield. > * * * > * This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org. > * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with > * unsubscribe > * as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. 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