[duxuser] Re: duxuser opens file but, not being displayed rite

  • From: "John Sanders" <starmy22@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:04:01 -0500

Hi, a couple of other things I forgot to tell you.  The file is in a .brf 
format. I also got the file off of
the web braille service.
Does that help you any?
Sincerely,
John Sanders

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Durber" <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:30 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: duxuser opens file but, not being displayed rite


> If you have already tried the suggestions that have been made by other
> listers, then in my opinion, I have 1 more idea to throw into the pot
> as to why your screen reader is not reading the file correctly.
>
> When files are created in word processors such as Word, WordPerfect
> and DBT, they are created in 2 different ways.
>
> One way is to type headings, paragraphs, outlines and lists etc., and
> pressing <ENTER> twice to separate one block of text from another.
>
> The other way is to type headings, paragraphs, outlines and lists
> etc., with the use of styles.
>
> When using a style, such as a paragraph style, in Word or WordPerfect,
> you can have it insert a blank space between each paragraph measuring
> the distance equal to that of a blank line.  Because styles can be
> programmed to do this, you only need to press the <ENTER> key once to
> separate each paragraph and not twice.
>
> The problem arises when the file is save to a .TXT file format.  When
> styles are used, only 1 hard return is placed at the point where the
> <ENTER> key is pressed and not 2.  The programmers of these word
> processors have not been intelligent enough to work out that, if a
> style has been set to force such a space between units of text, then
> that feature of the style should be replaced with a second hard
> return.
>
> Now the problem is compounded when the saved .TXT file is imported
> into another word processor, such as DBT.  In many cases, most, if not
> all of the hard returns are stripped away and they are replaced with
> the space character.
>
> Like me, if you have come across this situation and you have imported
> a file into a word processor and it appears as if it is one huge block
> of text, there is no fast fix solution to solve this problem.  Like a
> bad storm, you have to grit your teeth and go through the file and
> format the file as you go along.  As far as I know, that is the only
> way.  I'm sorry about that.
>
> Sincerely:
>
> Dave Durber
>
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 18:23:17 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >BlankHi, when I open up a .txt file in to duxbury, it doesn't display rite. 
> >In other words, my screen reader
isn't reading it rite. How should I go about fixing it?
> >Sincerely,
> >John Sanders
> >
>
>
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