[duxuser] Re: Fully Justified MS Word Files imported into DBT
- From: "Steve Dresser" <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 23:14:05 -0400
Brian,
Unless Word uses hard spaces to accomplish justification, it won't matter.
DBTW compresses spaces, which is why you never see two spaces between
sentences in the translated file, even though they may be there in the
original print document. In the DOS days, you could turn compression off
with the $nocompress code, but I don't know if that code exists in the
Windows version.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lingard" <b.lingard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 22:43
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Fully Justified MS Word Files imported into DBT
Ottawa Canada
Dear Ann and list:
If the MS Word file was fully justified (flush with both left and
right margins) I can see Word inserting spaces between words and
letters to try to smooth up the margins, or if a line is
particularly long, remove spaces between words and letters to
make it fit onto one line.
My old Diablo 630 printer was an expert at this but when it tried
to do it to a line that was half a line or less, it did some
really strange formatting but it was determined to make that line
fully justified!
Since Braille is inherently a mechanically spaced type font, I
can see where importing a Proportionally spaced document into DBT
would cause utter chaos!
Guess when preparing text for Brailing, it pays to compose it
left justified, that is with a smooth left margin and ragged
right-hand margin.
Just some thoughts about this.
Brian
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