[duxuser] Re: any drawbacks using Swift?
- From: "Kathy Riessen" <kathy.riessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:15:58 +1030
Greetings from South Australia
We do all our editing in Word and use SWIFT to move to Duxbury.
Currently we have Duxbury 10.6 SR4, and use a Word template which we adapted
from Susan's BANA to suit our needs, and with an equivalent Duxbury template
and .mws file which "connects" the two. Being Australian we use the UEB code
which means that we don't have to think separately for maths and literary,
and have some differing formatting conventions to the BANA rules. We have
had no problems with using SWIFT in going directly from Word to Duxbury, and
have found no difference between using SWIFT or opening a file directly in
Duxbury, either method works equally well for us.
When proofreading the braille in Duxbury, we have both files open, the Word
file and the Duxbury file and as we find anything that needs adjustment,
equivalent adjustments can be made to the Word document. (alt-tab moves us
quickly between the 2 files). We use hidden text for any Duxbury codes we
may want to add, eg [kps][kpe] or [:][;] pairs in the Word document.
The great advantage we have found with this system is that we have a well
proofread and well formatted Word document which we are then able to utilise
for the production of Large Print, E-text and even Daisy (synthetic voice)
files for our students, as we often have the requests for the same text for
different students who require various formats.
Kathy
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dean Martineau
Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2008 2:30 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] any drawbacks using Swift?
I'm curious to hear from people who have tried to do the bulk of their
editing in Word, making effective use of Word styles, and then used SWIFT to
produce hard copy with little or no time spent in DBT itself. This seems to
me to be a workable scheme for much brailling. What pitfalls does one
encounter? Where does it not work without human intervention?
Thanks for any comments.
Dean
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