[duxuser] Re: Translation Question:
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- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:52:56 -0600
Warren and all,
Thanks for all your suggestions and feedback. It is all appreciated. I
am working on implementing Warren's suggestion.
Some of you certainly heard and understood my frustrations. I thank
Warren for contacting me directly and listening to my concerns about
Braille publishing and Braille standards. I am a Braille user, and the
only publishing that I do in Braille is for personal consumption. I know
that a lot of you on the list do Braille translation for groups,
organizations, students, and commercial consumption, so I do understand
where you are responding from. As a Braille user, who must both review
and write documents as part of my job, it would be extremely useful to
have Braille represent the printed document as closely as possible. The
written word that I produce is a reflection of the quality of work that
I am expected to do. The unfortunate piece is, that due to the
limitations of Braille, I do not have the use of a medium that I should
have. In other words, I have a broken tool in my toolkit when it comes
to producing and using documents as part of my work.
Again, I thank you all for your feedback to my query, and I am now aware
that I must continue on phasing out the use of Braille in my daily
routine, and become even more reliant on the spoken word to replace its
use.
Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.>
Management Systems Analyst
Information Technology #8245 | Phone: (403) 268-5527
The City of Calgary | Fax: (403) 268-2546
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-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Warren Figueiredo
Sent: 2007 April 25 4:14 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Translation Question:
I sent Stephen offlist the directions to write a Word macro that looks
for a line of two or more equal signs and replaces the entire line with
the spaced asterisks as Susan Jolly recommended and formats the
asterisks as a heading so that when it comes into DBT, it will be easier
to read. The trick to the macro is using wildcards in find and replace
which opens up a wider range of possibilities for replacements.
The find string is \={2,} which says look for a word containing 2 or
more equal signs. I didn't want it to eat any single uses of the equal
sign as in
2 + 2 = 4 if it had any.
The replacement string is * * * and the formatting style for the
replcement string is set for Heading 1.
You simply open up a copy of your Word document, run the macro, and save
the document. You then bring the document into DBT (with SWIFT if you
wish). My sample imported into DBT 10.6 OK and it is certainly much
easier than reading kazillion iterations of "equals."
Warren
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:24 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Translation Question:
Aloha,
If in fact the person uses an entire line of = signs that are not
separated by spaces, I would use find and replace to change each three =
sign with one dash. If you replace each = sign with a dash, there will
be too many to fit on one braille line. If the = signs are spaced, I
would replace each group of three = signs and the separating spaces with
one dash. I forget the exact number and all documents can have different
numbers of characters on a line, so you just have to play with it until
you have the right number of dashes that will fit on one line of your
braille document.
HTH, Betsy
At 06:02 AM 4/25/2007, you wrote:
>I would do a Find and Replace in the word file. Replace the equal
>signs with dashes.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:18 AM
>To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [duxuser] Translation Question:
>
>
>
>All,
>
>I regularly encounter MS Word documents that contain a line of equal
>signs in it. The author of these documents is obviously using the this
>as a means of separation within the document. My problem is that when I
>translate a MS Word document with a line of equal signs in it, I get
>the word equal for every equal sign used.
>So for example:
>A small line of 20 equal signs, ==================== Translates into A
small
>line of 20 equal signs, equal equal equal equal equal equal equal equal
>equal equal equal equal equal equal equal equal equal equal equal equal
>
>My question is, how do I change this to something more meaningful and
>less painful to read? For example, replacing the multiple equal signs
>making up
a
>line with a line of x's or full cells.
>
>Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.>
>Management Systems Analyst
>Information Technology #8245 | Phone: (403)
268-5527
>
>The City of Calgary | Fax: (403)
268-2546
>
> PO Box 2100 Postal Station M. | Email:
>Stephen.Dawes@xxxxxxxxxx
> Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2P 2M5 | Web:
>http://www.calgary.ca
>
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