[duxuser] Re: Duxbury Questions
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 22:18:12 -0400
Hi Richard,
Now that I have five minutes to myself here in the States,
let me try to address your question about the Standard
English Separator line. For everyone perhaps a little
afraid of getting into creating Styles and Templates, this
could be an interesting exercise which will not break your
computer.
Since the Standard and Text Book Templates cannot be
modified, we can however create new Templates based on same.
We'll also add a Style which will place a row of 12 dots 2,5
centered on the page.
1) Open a New document using which ever Template you want
to copy. Let's say for now, it's Standard.
2) Go to the Document menu, and select Add Style.
3) You need to give your Style a name. So let's call it
"separator." - That's without quotes, but with a period or
full stop. Press Enter. (The full stop tells DBT that this
is a Paragraph Style.
4) You will now be presented with a dialog asking you to
enter a Beginning code and Ending code for the separator.
Style.
5) With your cursor in the Beginning codes: text box hold
down the Ctrl key, and press [ (left square bracket) A pair
of these brackets will appear, with your cursor between
them.
6) Type hds and then press the end key to move to the right
of the ] (right square bracket) This effectively starts a
centered heading.
7) Hold down Ctrl again, and tap left square bracket.
8) Type q~333333333333 - that is q, then a tilde, followed
by 12 number 3s. This code ultimately causes twelve 3's to
sent to the embosser, which will produce dots 2 & 5.
9) Press the Tab key to move down to the Ending Codes: Text
Box.
10) Type hde - which says that you have ended the centered
heading.
11) Click on the OK button to return to the blank document.
12) Go to the Document menu, and select "Create Template".
13) Give your Template a name, bearing in mind that it will
appear alphabetically in the Templates list. So, if you
want it to appear before say "Standard", you might want to
call it "MyStandard"
14) Click on the OK button to save the Template.
15) Save the open document in a suitable folder calling it
"MyStandard" - DBT will automatically add a .dxp file
extension. If you plan on doing this again, you may just
wish to create a folder called Templates in your c:\duxbury
folder so that similar masters can be stored in one place.
16) Close this file.
17) Open a new document, but when you do, make sure that you
select "MyStandard" from the List of Templates.
18) Type a few words at the beginning, then press the return
key to go onto a new line.
19) Go to the Layout menu and select - Insert Style. Chose
the Style called "separator." and click on OK. You should
see a row of 12 centered number 3s appear.
20) Control + t to translate, and you should now see that a
row of 12 dots 2 & 5 have appeared at the foot of the text.
So what if it goes pear shaped, or you want to make further
changes?
A) Open the MyStandard.dxp" file.
B) To modify the Style, go to the Document menu, select
Modify Style, select the style you want to modify, and click
OK. You will again be presented with the Beginning Codes
and Ending Codes Text Boxes where you can make changes.
When you have made them, click OK and follow the prompts to
save the changes.
C) Select Document, then "Create Style". At this point the
name will show as "Untitled Template". Navigate to the
Templates List. Down or up arrow to the "MyStandard"
Template. Note that even if you are on this Template to
start with, you will have to move away from it, and back to
it again for it to then appear in the Name for New Template
box.
D) Click on OK. You will get a warning that you are calling
it the same name as an existing template, and asking if you
still wish to proceed. Answer yes.
E) Close your open document, answering yes to saving the
changes.
All things being equal, when you open a new document, and
select the modified Template, it will reflect any changes
you have made.
George Bell
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George
Bell
Sent: 24 April 2003 18:07
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Richard,
Old saying - "Only silly question is one you don't ask -
dummy!" - (Big
smile)
I'm afraid I flagged your message to look at later, and
(seriously red
face) have just got back to it.
As I'm just about to head off to the States, forgive me
again for a briefish reply.
1) A code/Style needs to be added to do this. However I
agree this needs to be added to the UK default templates.
Having said that, it is an issue that comes up world-wide.
2) You are the second person to ask why capitals cannot be
turned off in the Table of Contents? Why would you do this,
and have the rest of the document contain capitals?
3) Wow! Have you graduated to adding DBT Codes yet? Also
need more information about what you want to do, but the
code [pntr] will change next number to Roman and the code
[pnta} to Arabic.
George Bell.
________________________________
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Richeena@xxxxxxx
Sent: 18 April 2003 10:28
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear All,
I use DBT to translate scanned documents into English
uncapitalised Braille after editing in Word. Please can
anyone advise
whetehr:
(1) there is a quick way of generating the normal English
Braille separation line, i.e. twelve dots 2-5 centred;
(2) there is a way of turning off U.S. capitals in the Table
of Contents generator; and
(3) there is a way of switching from roman numeral
page-numbering to araic without creating a new document.
If these questions seem silly, put it down to my being a
very new duxuser.
Richard Cowan
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