[duxuser] Re: question about publisher files.
- From: "Lisa Hall" <LHALL10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 05:07:20 -0500
Thank you for that information. I look forward to hearing more about the
macro being referred.
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-- Les Brown
Lisa Hall
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:17 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: question about publisher files.
> 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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