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1. Click the Start button
on the Task Bar OR: Type the windows start button
2. Choose Programs
3. Select the "Duxbury"
Program Group
4. Click the "DBT Win"
Icon OR: Using the arrow keys, move to the "DBT Win" option and
type the enter key
1. Select "File: New"
from the menu OR: use the shortcut command CTRL-N by typing the key marked
"Ctrl" and the letter "t" at the same time.
2. Select "Print"
and "Standard Format" in the dialog box
3. Click "OK"
Shortcut
key commands are listed next to the corresponding menu command. For instance,
when you select "File: New" from the menu, you can also type CTRL-N.
This option is listed directly to the right of the menu command Shortcut
key options are an easy, quick way to carry out commands which can take
much longer if you use the menu.
To
create our first document, we are going to type a letter. Type the following:
|
Dear
Mother, Love, |
That's
all - it's that simple!
1. Select "File: Translate"
from the menu or type CTRL-T.
2. That's all! You've translated
your document!
1. Type CTRL-E, or select
"Emboss" from the "File" Menu. IMPORTANT: IF YOU DO
NOT HAVE AN EMBOSSER SET UP, DO NOT USE THE "EMBOSS" COMMAND!
2. Click "OK" or
type the enter key
There
are three ways to close a document. Be sure to close the document, not the
application.
1. Select "File: Close"
from the menu
2. If DBT asks whether you
want to save the document, click "Discard."
1. Click the document's "Close"
button
2. If DBT asks whether you
want to save the document, click "Discard."
1. Type CTRL-F4
2. If DBT asks whether you
want to save the document, click "Discard."
1. Select "File: Save"
from the menu, or type CTRL-S.
2. Type "letter.dxp"-
the extension ".dxp" tells DBT that this is going to be a DBT
print document.
3. Be sure to save your document
in the "dbtdocs" directory.
4. Click "Save"
or press the enter key.
When
you exit DBT, the application first closes any open documents. If you have
made changes to a document and have not saved those changes, DBT will ask
you if you want to save your changes. DBT also saves the position of your
cursor. If your document is a long one, you may find that the next time
you open the document, you can't see the beginning of it. In order to avoid
confusion, type CTRL-Home, to place your cursor at the beginning of the
document, before saving. If you want to remember where you stopped working,
then don't move the cursor to the beginning of the document before saving
it.
First, we need a Microsoft
Word document. This portion of the tutorial uses Microsoft Word. If you
don't have Microsoft Word, please disregard this section for your own use.
However, if you are receiving MS Word documents from another person for
you to translate into Braille, you might want to show them this section
of the tutorial so that their documents will be easier for you to translate.
1.
Close any open documents
and exit DBT.
2.
Start Microsoft
Word.
3.
Choose "New"
from the "File" menu
4.
Select blank document
or "Normal" if you are prompted to select a template.
5.
Select "Style"
From the "Format" menu
6.
Be sure "All
Styles" is selected from the "List:" option
7.
Select "Heading
1"
8.
Click "Apply"
9.
Type "Title"
10.
Type the Return key
11.
Select "Style" from the "Format"
menu
12.
Select "Heading 2."
13.
Click "Apply"
14.
Type "Chapter 1"
15.
Type the enter key twice.
16.
Type "This text was centered using tabs and spaces."
17.
Placing the cursor at the beginning of the line, center
the text as best you can by typing the tab key a few times, and then the
space key a few times.
18.
Save the Microsoft Word document in the \dbtdocs directory
as "Styles.doc"
Note: if you are using Word 2000 you must save your file with a Word6/Word95
File type
19.
Close the document, and exit Word.
Open the document in DBT
1.
Select Open from
the file menu OR: Type CTRL-O
2.
Open "Styles.doc"
OBSERVE: DBT recognizes the word document
3.
Select "OK"
or type the enter key
OBSERVE: DBT applied its own styles to the first two lines. The
corresponding styles are listed in the status bar. DBT removed the skipped
line directly following the second line. The appearance of a skipped line
remains, however, due to the formatting of the "h" style, which
skips a line at the end of the paragraph. The style "para." was
applied to the paragraph, and the sentence may or may not appear centered.
In order to see what really
happened, view codes by typing ALT-F3 or selecting "Codes" from
the "View" menu. DBT has applied styles ("es~para."
and "ee~para." mean "start normal paragraph style" and
"end normal paragraph style"), and kept the spaces and tabs.
4.
Translate the document
to Braille. It will look very similarly formatted as compared with the print
version, but no Braille document will ever look exactly the same as a print
document. This is because of differences in formatting conventions and because
Braille simply takes up more room than a print document. Always check your
Braille document for formatting accuracy rather than assuming that the Braille
will look like the print does. Just because your print document looks a
certain way doesn't mean your Braille document should look the same!
The above materials have
been adapted from Duxbury Online Tutorial at http://www.duxburysystems.com/tutorial/
with the permission of the author.