[duxuser] Re: Word Perfect - was: Another item for the wish list
- From: "Lloyd G. Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:37:26 -0500
I sometimes use DBT's Word importer to good effect. I now have a template
which includes styles for stairstep format (altering the [hi] so an outline
has no additional indent in runover lines). I defined [h3] to skip a line
and start in cell 1 (it doesn't work properly if the line then begins with
tabs). [h4] acts like a normal paragraph, and [h5] acts like a paragraph
which starts in cell 5.
But these styles can be used, whether the file came from Word, WordPerfect,
ASCII, HTML or XML. I still don't own Word. Instead, I try to keep up
with WP and am using WP 10 with its Service Pack 3. I'm glad you're not
planning to drop WPD support, although I understand if Word gets the lion's
share of the attention. Since Word is going to change their format to XML
later this year, and most of us don't know what that XML will really look
like, the race will continue.
I still find Word files which WP can't import (it reads most of them), and
sometimes neither DBT nor WP understands the numbering in lists. Sometimes
WordPad helps and sometimes it crashes.
I very often use WP 10 to import a file, convert it to "ANSI Generic Word
Processor" format, import that back into WP, save as WPD (so I have tabs,
hard returns, extended characters and hard pages but not much else) and
start applying tabs and styles.
I don't think anyone should expect to use DBT as their editor for producing
print. But for producing larg print, there might be some interesting
possibilities. But let's try to stay focused on making DBT a good braille
production tool; it is needed.
I never heard that acronym expansion before; I'm going to pass it along.
At 02:51 PM 1/28/03 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi Susie,
>
>>We are talking here about doing away with WordPerfect and only using
>Word and Duxbury to do our editing;
>
>Absolutely not!! Word Perfect is, and will continue to be, supported by
>DBT. However, at this moment in time, by far the overwhelming demand is
>coming from Word users.
>
>But things could change, especially if the following acronym holds any
>water. (smile)
>
>MICROSOFT = Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools
>Teenagers.
>
>George Bell
>Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
Braille is the solution to the digital divide.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <lras@xxxxxxx>
<http://www.loc.gov/nls>
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The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent
those of NLS.
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