OK so this is the dry non marketing announcement. . .
As of Thursday, May 9th, we have released DBT Win version 10.4
UPDATE OR ADD DBT WIN 10.4 to your braille production team now. For more
information just contact us or check out our web site:
http://www.duxburysystems.com
Please direct any inquiries to <[log in to unmask]>. Our heartfelt thanks to
beta testers and others who helped us with this long-awaited update, with
special thanks to Techno-Vision for outstanding work on the "help" files and
the "SWIFTER" facilities for Word-to-DBT, WORD-to-Braille and more right
from your MS Word document.
-- There is now an automatic facility for generating a table of contents in
a braille document. The process can work simply from common heading styles,
or custom methods can be designed.
-- The "help" facility has been greatly extended and improved (with thanks
to Techno-Vision, Duxbury's UK distributor, for the bulk of this work)
-- JAWS and Window Eyes screen readers now read highlighted text.
-- Braille Math is now even easier to produce. The LaTeX importer has been
improved so that a wider range of file coding styles can now be imported
successfully.
-- Supported Embossers now include the BRAILLE PLACE from Enabling, the
Tiger Advantage, Elekul, and Nippon TeleSoft BMP. A number of other
embossers, formerly listed only generically, are now more clearly identified
according to manufacturer and model name as well as other new embossers.
-- The Microsoft Word file import facility has been extensively improved,
notably to map "character" styles as well as "paragraph" styles, and to
permit control over the handling of hard and soft page breaks and multiple
skipped lines. Automatic mark up of email and other "computer braille"
items.
-- An "English/American Textbook" translation table has been added, to
accommodate the differences between general literary practice and the former
"Textbook Formats" manual (now called "Braille Formats"). The unqualified
"English/American" table continues to support the standard literary base
code defined in "English Braille American Edition." The "Textbook" template
now refers to this new American Textbook table.
-- Control-down arrow and Control-up arrow now allow movement down and up in
a DBT document by paragraph.
-- Incremental typing is now supported in all list boxes.
-- A "hard hyphen" can now be imported and has been implemented in various
contexts, e.g. to prevent splitting up number ranges across lines.
-- It is now possible to export print text using Windows encoding for
accented letters etc.
-- The formatted braille (BRF) file import now imports ED-IT PC braille
files.
-- The option to install British templates is now presented as an
installation option for new installations.
-- Braille fonts are now generated on the fly for Windows. DBT maintains a
special table that controls the link between ASCII characters in the DBT
braille file and the way in which the braille is displayed on the screen
and on a braille device.
-- The English/British translation tables have been changed so that computer
notation is now done according to BAUK conventions instead of the BANA
Computer Braille Code (CBC).
-- An English/Australian translation table has been added, in which literary
material follows British practice while computer notation is handled
according to BANA CBC.
-- Both the Cymraeg (Welsh) and Irish Gaelic translation tables now have
both "with Capitals" and "without Capitals" forms.
-- The French table now has an "Uncontracted" as well as the regular
(contracted) form.
-- Bulgarian/Uncontracted translation tables have been added.
-- Greek (Modern)/Uncontracted translation tables have been added.
-- Vietnamese/Uncontracted translation tables have been added, with an
experimental extension for math.
-- There have been minor corrections, updates and improvements in virtually
all areas of DBT.
-- Although not directly a part of DBT, the distribution CD now contains an
enhanced version of SWIFT, a Word macro that lets you send a file directly
to DBT from within Word. (SWIFT and the newer SWIFTER were produced by
Techno-Vision, Duxbury's UK distributor.)
Sincerely,
Neal Kuniansky
Email: [log in to unmask]
TEL: + 978-692-3000 Fax: + 978-692-7912
Duxbury Systems, Inc.
270 Littleton Road, #6
Westford, MA 01886 USA
General Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.DuxburySystems.com
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