Karen, the person who produced the documents has "smart quotes" turned on in Word or WordPerfect or whatever. In Word this is all under "Autoformat" and you should uncheck just about all those options. If whoever produced the document is somebody over whom you have power (grin) suggest they do likewise.
Susie Stageberg Project ASSIST with Windows Iowa Department for the Blind (515) 281-1351 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karen McDonald Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 6:31 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: [Braillenote] TRANSLATION QUESTION Hi, everyone, I know that my subject is vague but I honestly don't know quite how to describe this problem. I have several ASCII files and I know that my problem has to do with Duxbury. Every time I come to a word that ends with the apostrophe s, I get stars . When I press the cursor routing button related to the particular character, I hear things like "open quotation mark" or even something like "vulgar fraction." I kid you not, that's what I read! How can I translate these documents so that when I see a word and know that there is an apostrophe in it, I'll actually see the apostrophe. I'm getting to the point that I'm pretty disappointed in the Duxbury translator. I even tried to translate the documents in to braille, but that didn't help. Hope you all can understand this. any responses would be welcome. Karen ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
