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From: "Joe Sullivan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:29 PM
Subject: duxuser: Release of DBT Win 10.4
May 9, 2002
Dear Members of the Duxnews and Duxuser lists,
As of Thursday, May 9th, we have released an update to DBT Win,
designated
DBT Win 10.4, with build date 2002-4-16. See the text appended to the
end
of this message, which contains the associated entry in the product
history, for a list of the features added and problems corrected. (As
always, the product history is maintained on our web site at
http://www.duxburysystems.com so that you may access this information,
and
also information about prior updates, at any time.)
The eligibility date for a free update by downloading from the web page
is
January 25, 2001. Please direct any inquiries about obtaining the
password, if you are eligible for a free update and don't already have
the
password, to <[log in to unmask]>. That is also the place to inquire about
obtaining the update on CD (a $25 service fee applies) or a regular paid
update if your license predates the eligibility date for free download.
Please note that your license number must be supplied for all updates.
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" Word-to-DBT macro.
--- most recent entry in DBT Win Product History:
Version / Build Date Release Date
10.4/2002-4-16 2002-5-9
-- 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 based on new codes for marking
text that is significant to the TOC (codes RPS and RPE).
-- 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.
-- 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.
-- Supported Embossers now include the Tiger Advantage and Elekul. A
number
of other embossers, formerly listed only generically, are now more
clearly
identified according to manufacturer and model name.
-- 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.
-- The formatted braille (BRF) file import has been improved so that it
can
now be used to import ED-IT PC braille files.
-- A "hard hyphen" can now be imported and has been implemented in
various
contexts, e.g. to prevent splitting up number ranges across
lines.
-- The LaTeX importer has been improved so that a wider range of file
coding styles can now be imported successfully.
-- It is now possible to export print text using Windows encoding for
accented letters etc.
-- 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.
-- 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.
-- 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.
-- 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. (This is in effect the same as the table
previously identified as English / British.)
-- 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.
-- A warning is now given when attempting to translate a file which has
already been translated.
-- 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.)
-- The "WordPort" add-in for certain file imports is no longer included
with DBT, though it will remain available in cases where updates are
installed into the same directory where an earlier DBT with Wordport is
already installed. This should only affect imports of some obscure older
file formats; current formats such as Word, WordPerfect, LaTeX, HTML and
XML, etc. are imported directly by DBT without using the add-in. (We
nevertheless encourage users with special import requirements to let us
know, as it is likely that we can suggest a solution.)
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