[BlindMath] Duxbury: changing math braille tables?

Wed Mar 20 14:35:38 UTC 2019

We might need this in the future??!
Susan

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Hi Bill.  I miss you every day!!  Hope this helps.  It's from the online
manual.

In the course of your work you may find it expedient to create some of your
own custom formatting styles. You will probably want to save them and re-use
them in other documents instead of recreating them each time, and the way to
do that is by creating a custom template.

You begin by creating a new document and selecting the template that most
closely matches your needs. If your language has only one supplied template,
that template is your likely starting point. If your language has several
templates, again, select the one that provides the best match. DBT Help
provides a list of all the DBT standard templates, with links to their
details.

You should now have a blank document on your screen. (This blank document
has already incorporated the Global Printer and Embosser settings of your
default ink printer, and your default braille embosser. These should ideally
have been defined via Global: Printer Setup and Global: Embosser Setup.
However, do not worry. They can be changed.)

Please note that from now on in your newly open document, you absolutely
must make any changes to your Printer or Embosser setup using Document:
Printer Setup or Document: Embosser Setup.

If you selected a template which uses one base language, but your custom
template requires a different base language, now is the time to make this
change. See the Document: Translation Tables menu to make your selection.

Note that there may be special considerations for languages depending on
their context. For example, although you might wish to produce a document in
Spanish or French, you must decide if you wish to present those languages as
taught in an English School or as used in the native country. There is a
difference in the braille rules applied.

Now would be a good time to save your template, as you do so, consider
whether you wish to keep it as a kind of "master template" which you can
call up later, and use to create other variations. (You may wish to name it
accordingly.)

>From the Document menu, select Create template. The following dialog will
appear.

Start of dialog box
"Create a document from current document settings"

"Create new template"

"Replace existing template"

Right below is a window with choices

Set template as default (checkbox)

Use customized wordstyle map (checkbox

Word style map: (right below is a window with choices)

Table of Contents options

Save for me only or share with others
End of dialog box

Note that this dialog provides two options: (1) Create New Template, or (2)
Replace Existing Template. If you wish to "Create a new Template" type an
appropriate name in the text box.

If you wish to "Replace an existing template", tab to the "Replace Existing
Template" list box, and select the template to be replaced. Note that you
can replace any custom template you have previously created, but you cannot
replace the standard DBT templates.

Word Style Maps are files which provide a mapping from the styles in
Microsoft Word to the styles defined in DBT when you import a file from
Word. These files have a .mws file extension. If you have a customized Word
style map you wish to use, check that box. (Setting up such a mapping for
imported Word files is a major motivation for creating a custom template.)

Finally, click on OK, or press Enter.

The following dialog appears for you to confirm the action if you are
replacing an existing template.

"A template of that name already exists.  Would you like to overwrite it?"

Click the Yes or No button. If you press Enter, No is the default.

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From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bill
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Cc: Bill Dengler <codeofdusk at gmail.com>
Subject: [BlindMath] Duxbury: changing math braille tables?

Hello,
Is it possible to edit Duxbury’s UEB braille tables such that within
mathematical expressions, numbers are represented as a letter with dot 6
added (and dots 346 for zero) instead of letters proceeded by dots 3456?
While these numbers would clash with contractions in running text, I think
this would significantly reduce the number of cells needed to represent
equations for personal use.

Thanks,
Bill
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