[duxuser] Re: tables
- From: "Caryn Navy" <caryn@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:42:17 -0400
Hello Maureen.
One place with some help on tables in DBT is in the DBT help files under The
menus > Tables. There are two sub-entries, Tables: Create and Tables:
Properties.
That’s what I find at the moment.
Here is a suggestion about working with tables in DBt.
After bringing a table into DBT, you might find it instructive to switch to the
coded view (with the Alt+F3 toggle). The [htbs;...] code with various
parameters marks the start of the table, and the [htbe] code marks the end.
Each [>] code is a tab between columns. Each [<] code is a new line between
rows. As you have found, avoid pressing Enter within a table. I am guessing
that DBT thinks you are trying to add a new row within the table. But the
number of rows is already set in the table properties (from inside a table, you
can change that in the Table menu under Table properties). Pressing Enter
within a table is probably what is making DBT crash. If you want to go on to
enter more material after the table, get into DBT’s coded view. move the cursor
somewhere after the [htbe] code, to get outside of the table, before pressing
Enter.
In your question about formats approved by BANA, I don’t understand what format
you are showing.
If you want to mark a table entry as something to be filled in by the student,
you can insert four hyphens in that table entry.
I hope this helps somewhat.
Sincerely,
Caryn
Caryn Navy
Duxbury Systems
Phone: (978) 692-3000, ext. 310
E-mail: caryn@xxxxxxxxxx
Web: www.duxburysystems.com
From: Lewicki, Maureen
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 2:54 PM
To: mailto:duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] tables
Hi, All, I have been wrangling tables all morning and they won.
Is there a place where I can learn how to use them? I am using Sci Notebook,
and dxbry.
Here is what happens:
I create the table in SN, save etc. Open in dxbry, then translate. The table is
there, but if I hit return, it creates another one, with no info in it. I can
not then get rid of any of them. In fact the program often freezes.
Also, a formatting question. The charts I create are in braille in a different
format. The title is listed, and then each of the columns, then below that is
the data. Hence, it might read:
Time
Cost
1 –5
2—10
3—15
Is this the “BANA approved’ format?
Thirdly, if there is a blank space in the table, so that the child has to fill
in the chart, the program does not seem to recognize that there is a blank, so
it moves the next number into the previous column. Suggestions?
Maureen Murphy Lewicki
Maureen Murphy Lewicki
Teacher of Visually Impaired
Bethlehem Central Schools
(518)439-7681
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