[duxuser] Re: question about publisher files.
- From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:17:54 +0100
Hi Lisa,
When you say "publisher's files", it can actually cover a fairly wide
spectrum, but generally speaking these days, they are tending to be in
an XML tagged format. (with the greater than and less than tags)
Duxbury can import these files, and generally speaking does quite a good
job of it. Indeed there are enhancements being made for 10.5.
Duxbury's editor is limited in what it can do. DBT is primarily a
translator, and does not have the power and performance of a full blown
word processor such as WordPerfect or Word for Windows. That said,
again there are enhancements coming along in the next release.
As regards macro capability, again this is not currently a feature,
though may well be for a future release, but not the next. Meanwhile,
there is a Macro add-on available. When Neal Kuniansky returns to the
duck pond (on 1st October) I'll ask him to post details of this.
George Bell.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Hall [mailto:LHALL10@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 September 2003 03:21
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: question about publisher files.
Thank you for my response on this matter. I was wondering how many
people on this list have dealt with publishers's files and would this be
a major problem for blind people to do Braille transcription once they
complete their certification in the Literary Braille code.
On another topic, I noticed that Duxbury doesn't have a feature that
allows something that is in uppercase to be changed to lowercase and
vice versa. I don't think that Duxbury have the ability to create
macros like you could in either Wordperfect or Microsoft Word. What do
others think?
---------
"It's not over until I win!!!"
-- Les Brown
Lisa Hall
San Antonio, Texas
e-mail and via msn at
lhall10@xxxxxxxxxxx
New personal home page:
http://home.satx.rr.com/lisahall
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:44 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: question about publisher files.
> Hi Lisa,
>
> I've been in Redmond all of the past week, and unfortunately didn't
> have
adequate communication there, so sorry this is coming late in the day.
>
> I rather suspect that what you are seeing between the greater than and
less than signs are actually HTML or XML type codes, or a derivative of
same.
>
> For example, if you see "<strong>My Text</strong>", This indicates in
> HTML
that the words "My Text" are in a bold typeface.
>
> However, without seeing the actual files in question, it's basically a
guess.
>
> George Bell.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Hall [mailto:LHALL10@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 September 2003 12:23
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: question about publisher files.
>
> When looking at these publisher's files, the codes that are in less
> than
and
> greater than, is this common in terms of letting us know where
> different sections of the book begins and ends?
> I wanted to make sure. I am sure that there will be a lot of search
> and replace things I'll need to do to clean up the file.
>
>
> ---------
>
> "It's not over until I win!!!"
> -- Les Brown
>
> Lisa Hall
> San Antonio, Texas
>
> e-mail and via msn at
> lhall10@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> New personal home page:
> http://home.satx.rr.com/lisahall
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lisa Hall" <LHALL10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "duxbury user list" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:10 AM
> Subject: [duxuser] question about publisher files.
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am in the Braille Transcription Program at Northwest Vista College
> taking
> > a course on Braille Technology 2 which focuses on various Braille
> > translation programs such as Duxbury, Braille 2000, and MegaDots. I
have
> a
> > textbook in Microsoft Word format and it contains codes to indicate
> > paragraphs, headings, subheadings, and they put them in between less
than
> > and greater than symbols. Some of these symbols have opening and
> > closing tags. This almost seems like HTML since I am taking a web
> > design course
as
> > well.
> >
> >
> > ---------
> >
> > "It's not over until I win!!!"
> > -- Les Brown
> >
> > Lisa Hall
> > San Antonio, Texas
> >
> > e-mail and via msn at
> > lhall10@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > New personal home page:
> > http://home.satx.rr.com/lisahall
> >
> >
> >
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