Speaking of Word files, editing, and DBT translation, Catherine
suggested it would help to use a refreshable braille display to see
exactly how things are lining up. I find that my Brailliant indicates
left justified line beginnings in different cells. Sometimes in cell one
and other times in cell 3 or 5. I know I'm not getting an accurate
report about that. In Duxbury, however, the Brailliant shows me exactly
where things are.
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On Behalf Of Brian Lingard
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 9:44 PM
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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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