[duxuser] Re: trouble with transcribing book

  • From: Steve Dresser <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:29:32 -0400

Don,

Maybe Susie has a better answer, but here's what I do:

1. Import the document into DBTW and press Alt-F3 to reveal codes. This is important, and if you don't reveal the codes, the rest of the procedure won't work.

2. Then press Control-F to bring up the find dialog. When prompted for "Text to find?" press Control-Left Bracket and insert the code you want to remove ([fts~b] for bold, [fts~i] for italics, or [fts~u] for underline). Then press Enter. This places your cursor on the first offending code, and you should then press Delete to remove it.

3. Then, press Control-I to find the next occurrence of the code and delete it as described above.

4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 until DBT tells you that it has reached the end of the document.

Repeat the entire procedure for each type of code you want to remove. Note that I used the Find instead of the Find/Replace. This is because codes for bolding, italics, and underlining come in pairs, and DBT removes the ending code if you remove the beginning code. Unfortunately, the automatic removal doesn't work if you replace each code with a null string, which means that you would have to find and replace both the beginning and ending codes, thus doubling the amount of work.

I realize this sounds like a lot of work anyway, and I'd be interested to know if there's an easier way to do this.

Steve

On Saturday 9/24/05 23:57 D Hansen wrote: 
Susie:

How does one go about getting rid of all that junk? I get Word documents all the time that have bolded, italisized, or underlined text in them. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks

Don

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If there is underlining, when you reveal codes in DBT, you should see
something like [fts~u] and [fte~u]. Looking at the codes should solve
many mysteries about this document. Often people who do Word documents
"pretty them up" with all kinds of eye candy that doesn't need to be
there for Braille-reading purposes. In general I take all that stuff
out, I don't care what it is. Seek and destroy all eye candy!

Susie


Susie Stageberg
Project ASSIST with Windows
Iowa Department for the Blind
(515) 281-1351
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The dots 4,5,6 is an underling indicator.


Ann Foxworth, Braille Consultant
Div. for Blind Services
4800 N. Lamar BLVD
Austin, TX 78756
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Hello there list,

I am having a problem transcribing a home owner book which I need to get
at least in to a .brf file.  The first things I notice is when I import
it from Word in to DBt 10.5 the translator seems to think that I have
bold and something else on.  It is dots 4-5-6.  I think this is an
indicator.  I would like to remove this.  Secondly, the actual file came
from Quark Express and I then had it imported to a pdf which I then took
and made .doc files out of.  The problem I see is that the Table of
Contents is not formatting properly.  It is carying the dopt 5 which
indicates the line for the page number over way too many lines.
I think I counted that being three lines.  Is there anything I can do
about this?  Thanks for the help.

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