[duxuser] Re: Another item for the wish list
- From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:30:46 -0000
Hi Steve,
Your suggestion is certainly valid, and indeed is technically do-able.
However, where do we draw the line between a braille translation package
and a word processor? Moreover, if we were to incorporate such a
feature, consider what Word Processors DBT would more or less
mandatorially have to handle?
My own solution to this is to use Word with cut and paste. Word
contains a myriad of different file importers, so if we get the
occasional Word Perfect Document for example, we can access it.
Please don't think I'm being negative here, but things are changing
fairly rapidly on the word processing front. For example, Microsoft
Office 11 is moving towards XML. No doubt others will follow.
Once we see a more common XML platform, life will become so much easier
as regards file types. And once this happens, I have no doubt
whatsoever that braille translators will be among the first to benefit.
George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dresser [mailto:s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 January 2003 16:45
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Another item for the wish list
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to see an option in the File Menu that would allow a
> file to be
> inserted into an already existing document. To understand
> why, consider
> the following scenario:
>
> I am assembling a newsletter consisting of several articles,
> each of which
> comes to me in a separate file. Since I want the final
> result to be a DBT
> file, I start by importing the first article into DBT. For
> each subsequent
> article, I have to open the file, select all of it, copy it to the
> clipboard, close it, go back to my original file, and paste
> in the contents
> of the clipboard. While this is certainly doable, the
> process would be
> much simpler if there was an option that allowed me to insert
> each new
> article into my original file at the location of the cursor.
>
> Steve
>
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