[duxuser] Re: Question about Word and Computer Braille
- From: "William Jolley" <wjolley@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:17:44 +1000
Hello everyone
This is mainly a question for George. Actually, there are two questions.
On Thursday May 15, George Bell wrote:
If you make the web address Courier, you can then ensure that prior to
Import, you make sure that in DBT, under Global, Word Importer, you check
"Courier to CBC".
...
If you have SWIFT, there is an option there for dealing with Hyperlinks.
George, this didn't work for me. I also cannot find reference to the Swift
option.
I made a simple file with Times New Roman as the default font. I changed
the email addresses and Web reference to Courier New. I got computer
Braille, but I got a starting dots 46, like an italic sign or underline
before the first letter. I didn't consistently get the open and close
two-cell signs, depending whether the Word document took a new line. With
the Web reference I got a blank line before it and no computer code
introduction sign. I did get the continuation symbol. I'm confused what to
do to get the email addresses and Web references to come out correctly from
an imported word file, with a minimum of manual intervention.
The Test File I used is attached, if the attachment gets through. There
were also some other anomalies with this file, such as the list. It's also
possible that some styles are slightly out of place. The numbering in the
Braille seemed a bit strange.
I am using Windows XP-Pro, Word 2000, DBT 10.4 and JFW 4.51. I'm using the
English Australian table - largely British contraction rules with the
American computer code. I also tried, through Swift, to use the Standard
template with American table. No improvement!
Hopefully, there is something simple which I am doing wrongly.
Alternatively, I hope that the treatment of email addresses and Web
references in Word can be cleaned up in DBT 10.5.
I want to crack this problem of automating email addresses and Web
references. I soon have a document to deal with, one I wrote myself, that
has to go into Braile. It is written with styles, so in theory everything
should be okay; but it contains almost 200 Web references, all of which are
currently in the default Times New Roman font as active links. I simply
want to avoid manual intervention on each one, when getting its translation
correct in Braille. Many Web references start on a new line in the print,
but I don't want a blank line preceeding them in the Braille.
Now I have a second matter to raise. I cannot understand why DBT does not
recognise the commonplace bullets used by word. Is this because Braille
doesn't have the requisite symbols to represent bullets? Can DBT be made to
simply use 99 rather than *99 to represent bullets?
all help is appreciated.
Cheers
Bill
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William Jolley
wjolley@xxxxxxxxxxx
613 9807 5137
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:19 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Question about Word and Computer Braille
> Hi Deb,
>
> If you make the web address Courier, you can then ensure that prior to
> Import, you make sure that in DBT, under Global, Word Importer, you
> check "Courier to CBC".
>
> However be warned. Nothing else in the Word document should be Courier.
>
> If you have SWIFT, there is an option there for dealing with Hyperlinks.
>
> George.
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Deborah Barnes [mailto:dbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 14 May 2003 19:50
> > To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Usually I do all my editing from Duxbury but I'm in a
> > position where I can't access my Duxbury from Word right now
> > so I have to make my changes in Word.
> > So my question is this:
> >
> > When I'm in Word can I do something to a hyperlink or Web
> > address so that when I take the document to Duxbury it will
> > translate into CBC when it's embossed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Deb B.
> >
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