[duxuser] Re: Transcribing Web Addresses
- From: "Lloyd G. Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:18:10 -0400
I would not recommend nesting the comp-inline and the comp-display. styles.
You don't want skipped lines unless you are doing a computer program
listing. I do my transcriptions with the comp-inline code. This can cause
other problems sometimes, such as an opening parenthesis which precedes the
address appearing on one line, with the rest of the expression on the next.
If you want DBT to automatically do your computer braille line breaks,
just inside the comp-inline style, insert the [wb-cb] code, which changes
to computer braille word breaking mode. At the end of the comp-inline
style, put a [wb] code, which resumes normal word breaking. I can get that
code quite quickly with F5, w, Enter. If you want to manually put line
breaks into a very long URL, you should put a [cb-&] followed by a [l].
And if you happen to be in poetry mode at the time, after the [l] you would
want a tab or something to get you to the runover margin currently in effect.
It is quite possible to make a new style, based on the comp-inline style,
which includes the start CBC word breaking and end CBC word breaking.
But I would recommend keeping the factory default comp-inline style; its
behavior will be more rational for runn-of-the-mill e-mail and web
addresses that don't exceed 4 characters less than the line length.
To answer another question, dots 456 does represent a following capital
letter in BANA computer braille code. An underscore is indicated by two
dot 456's in a row.
At 09:09 AM 4/24/03 +1000, you wrote:
>Good Morning all,
>
>I am looking for a little help please.
>
>I am formatting a large document which contains over 200 World Wide Web
>addresses.
>
>Normally I would use the Compinline codes to indicate the address in
>computer braile and then go back and put any necessary continuation signs
>in manually. . However, does DBT have a set of codes or style which
>inserts the continuation sign of dots 456-12346 automatically at the right
>hand end of the first line of the address (when an address overflows to the
>second line) or must I enter it automatically. And, folowing from this, if
>I can have this sign entered automatically, does it break the text at a
>sensible place eg before a fullstop or slash etc, or does it just put the
>sign in the last two cells of the line depending on the line parameter
>settings as they currently are.
>
>George, if there is not a code to insert the continuation sign, is there
>any chance of getting such in the next release please?
>
>I hope all this makes sense.
>
>Cheers
>
>Christine
>
>
>
>
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