[duxuser] Re: forcing a contraction
- From: "Dave Durber" <d.durber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:57:17 -0000
Hello Jean:
Insert the DBT code [cz] before the first character you do not want DBT to
transcribe. Type the characters exactly as you want them to appear in the
braill document, using the qwerty or six key entry. Enter the DBT code [tx]
immediately after the last character. When you transcribe the file, the text
between the [cz and the [tx will be as you entered it in the Word document. Do
this for any text you do not want DBT to transcribe, using its transcription
tables.
HTH
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
----- Original Message -----
From: Jean Menzies
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:34 PM
Subject: [duxuser] forcing a contraction
Working with the BANA Word template, version 1.11 SR 4 and UEB. What is the
code to use to force a contraction? I have a vague recollection it has to do
with slashes, but I can’t find it.
The reason for wanting this is I have an italicized group of two words
followed by an unspaced dash and more text. DBT is putting the italic passage
indicator in front of the first word, and the end italic passage after the
second word. That’s not right. Complicating this is that these words are
bacteria names, and DBT recognizes them as Latin and wants to uncontract them.
The agency wants them contracted. Therefore, I need to enter the italic codes
as Exact Translation
. But DBT is still uncontracting the words.
If I could remember that shortcut for forcing contractions, it would save me
looking up those SymBraille exact contraction characters for the rest of the
word.
Jean
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