[duxuser] Re: Kurzweil and Duxbury
- From: Dave Durber <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:21:21 -0400
One of the main problems with saving a file to text format, is that
you can lose the layout of most of the text formatting elements such
as: lists and outlines, paragraphs and headings. You definitely lose
attributes including: bold, italics and underline, that were detected
by your OCR/scanning program such as K1000 or OpenBook.
This is especially true if there was only one hard return placed
between each paragraph, between items in lists and outlines, and
between headings and the body of text that follows.
As I have said in a previous message, if this is the case, all of the
single hard returns are usually thrown away when this file is imported
into word processing programs such as Word, WordPerfect and DBT. So,
the likely hood is, that you will end up with one huge long continuous
block of text, out of which you then have to decide: where paragraph
breaks should occur; decide how the indented levels are shown between
items in lists and outlines; decide the level of each heading, etc.
Not an easy task! and not a job to be undertaken without a lot of work
and effort.
On the other hand, if there are two hard returns placed at the
appropriate places to separate the types of text elements, mentioned
above, when the file is saved, then importing formatted text files
will usually preserve the basic text elements.
For this reason, I agree with Steve Dresser, that it is a much better
idea to save the file to a Word formatted file. You have a much
better chance of preserving the basic type of text elements, as
mentioned previously. While you may have to change an outline style
to a list style, for example, the chances are that you will not have
to work so hard to produce an output braille file that will meet a
reasonable standard and quality.
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:58:35 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi. Here's what I did to add Duxbury to the Launch menu in k1000 V8.01.
>
>1. Go to the file menu of k1000 and select the launch sub menu.
>2. Press enter on add.
>3. In the program name edit box type Duxbury, or whatever you want it to
>show up as in the menu..
>4. Tab until you get to the Browse button and press the spacebar.
>5. Locate the dbtw.exe file, usually located in c:\Duxbury. Select okay.
>You will be placed back on the launch menu name edit box.
>6. Confirm that the program has been added properly by tabbing once. You
>should have the full path to the Duxbury program.
>7. Make changes to the other options as desired by pressing the spacebar to
>toggle between yes and no for the options. The settings I chose are:
>Command line arguments was left blank, a document name will be passed to
>DBT, K1000 will be minimized when the new program is launched, and the open
>file will be passed with formatting as a .txt file.
>8. Before pressing Okay, press spacebar on the search button. This will
>physically search to make sure that the path name specified exists.
>9. Press enter on the okay button.
>
>Now when you go to the launch menu, you should have Duxbury listed as an
>option. Good luck.
>
>Caroline
>
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