[duxuser] Re: trouble with transcribing book
- From: "Warren Figueiredo" <warrenfigueiredo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:14:49 -0500
Dave
There are provisions in BANA's Braille Formats for distinctive emphasis when
it is needed. See http://www.brl.org/formats/rule03.html
There you will see: (1) Boldface. When it is necessary, represent boldface
print by the boldface indicator (456, 46) or the double boldface indicator
(456, 46, 46). The rules of usage for these indicators are the same as for
braille italic indicators.
DBT allows for this with a translation table entitled English/American
Distinct Emphasis.
Warren
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dave Durber
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:50 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: trouble with transcribing book
As far as I am aware, in both the "English American" (BANA) and
"English British" (BAUK) braille rules, bold, italic and underline
attributes are all represented as dots 4-6 in the output braille file.
So therefore, regardless as to whether your .dxp file contains the
beginning and ending codes for bold, italic and underline attributes,
they are all treated in the same way when the file is transcribed to a
.dxb file.
If, at some later date, you decide to open the .dxb file and
back-transcribe the file, regardless as to whether the .dxb file
contains the beginning and ending codes for bold, italic and underline
attributes, when you back-transcribe the file to a .dxp file, the
bold, italic and underline attributes are all represented by the dots
4-5-6 character, in both the "English American" and "English British"
DBT templates.
This can be very confusing, especially when the author of the document
used the three attributes interchangeably within the same piece of
text.
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:17:23 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>stageberg.susan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of Foxworth, Ann
>Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 11:12 AM
>To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [duxuser] Re: trouble with transcribing book
>
>
>The dots 4,5,6 is an underling indicator.
>
>
>Ann Foxworth, Braille Consultant
>Div. for Blind Services
>4800 N. Lamar BLVD
>Austin, TX 78756
>PH: 512-377-0471,
>E-mail: ann.foxworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>-----Original Message-----
>From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of Scott Berry
>Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:54 AM
>To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [duxuser] trouble with transcribing book
>
>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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