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

  • From: "Foxworth, Ann" <Ann.Foxworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:14:47 -0500

There's a bunch of things I turn off in all that autoformatting stuff in Word.  
Word assumes you don't have a clue what you want in your document and that you 
are too lazy to figure it out, so it just puts all kinds of formatting in there 
that is not friendly to Duxbury.

Ann Foxworth, Computer Braille Specialist
Texas Commission for the Blind
4800 N. Lamar BLVD Suite # 130
Austin, TX 78756
PH: (512) 377-0654


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Dresser [mailto:s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 10:10 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Dilemma, How to Train Sighted Staff to Do Braille
using DBT


Dale,

I don't know if there is a "Smart quotes" option in Word Perfect, but if 
there is, it should be turned off.  As I said, DBT isn't the problem 
here.  The problem is that people are using the wrong character for an 
apostrophe.  Incidentally, I believe the "Smart Quotes" checkbox is part of 
the Format menu in Word.

Steve

On Monday 4/28/03 21:59 Dale Leavens wrote:
>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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