[duxuser] Re: Dilemma, How to Train Sighted Staff to Do Braille using DBT

  • From: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:59:55 -0400

So if I turn smart quotes off (assuming I can find it) then that ~ problem
will go away when I import MS-Word and more particularly WordPerfect files
into DBT? WordPerfect is still the processor of preference around here. If
not then what? is this a characteristic of DBT that users prefer? If so,
Why? if not then can it be got rid of?

If DBT can consistently turn the ', however misused into a ~ then surely it
could equally well turn it into an '.

Do people really have the opposite problem?

Thanks.

Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario
dleavens@xxxxxxx
     Home of the Polar Bear Express!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dresser" <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 8:51 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Dilemma, How to Train Sighted Staff to Do Braille
using DBT


On Sunday 4/27/03 17:07 Dale Leavens wrote:
>why must DBT regard the apostrophe as a tilde character?
It doesn't.  However, many people use the apostrophe for a single or double
quote, which they should not.  Also, many people have smart quotes turned
on in Word, which causes a single quote to be used in place of the
apostrophe.

Steve


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