Hi Everyone,
I do want to thank Aaron and each one who responded to my message
about NotePad Plus Plus.
I'm going to ditch that program.
How does Jarte and Ed sharp work with .doc and .docx files? I know
they both work with Window-Eyes, as I have them both installed on my computer.
I guess I'll just bring my documents into DuxBury and edit them
before brailling them.
For some reason, when I try to open a Word document, Adobe
Acrobat reader opens now, or tries to open, I did not intend for
this to happen, but I've botched something up.
I know that WordPad isn't as good as Microsoft Word 2010, but I
thought I might use it for a while. I do own Microsoft Office 2010,
and I suppose I should install it, but I would do it reluctantly. <grin> lol.
I do like the way that Window-Eyes works with Duxbury.
You see, I'm trying to braille a few songs with the chords under each
line of text. Now the chords are only like F AM, and so on. I've got
a lot to learn about Duxbury, but it's kind of fun. It sure beats
brailling all these songs by hand. lol.
We learn by doing.
Thanks a bunch.
Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
At 02:43 PM 4/19/2012, you wrote:
Pat and others,
It appears to me that when I access the NotePad++ preferences menu,
I can make it accessible by finding
the "Show Close Button on Every Tab" check box with the mouse
pointer and then unchecking it. After
that, I seem to have to close the preferences with ALT F4 or from
the system menu. Also, I have not
found a way to save the preference that does not include the close
button on every TAB. Jeff, maybe if
what I have found works, the developer would be willing to make it
easier to not have a close button on
every TAB or look at why that particular option seems to mess
everything up. I only did this a few
minutes ago so I don't know if there are other limitations.
As others have mentioned, NotePad++ really won't process Word
documents very well. I tried one
document, and when one turns word wrapping on, much of the text does
display. However, what has not
been mentioned is that Duxbury takes advantage of Word styles to do
formatting, and you would loose much
of that by trying to edit a document in NotePad++. However, you can
do some editing of Word Documents
directly within Duxbury itself. Unless I am missing something, you
would be best off learning about
Duxbury's edit features if you are planning on editing documents
from others that are created in Word.
If you are creating your own documents for brailling, using
Duxbury's editor might not be a bad way to
go as well, also. Obviously, you could look at creating a text
document with NotePad++ and then either
including Duxbury commands or bringing your text into Duxbury and
applying formatting there. I think,
though, that it is worth giving some thought to all this and perhaps
experimenting before settling on a
solution. I don't think associating DOC, DOCX, and other such
extensions to NotePad is the answer.
Associating them with Duxbury might work, though. Also WordPad may
work for some of these.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:29:39 -0500, Pat Ferguson wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>I'm using the latest version of Window-Eyes with the text editor
>called NotePad Plus Plus. This is free.
>I'm trying to associate all my doc and docx files with it, so that it
>will open them in their proper format, instead of using either
>NotePad or WordPad. I'm using the latest version of Window-Eyes, but
>the menus don't appear to be accessible in the Preferences menus. I
>kind of like the program. I'm using it because I'm avoiding Microsoft
>Word like a plague. I don't like it, and I'm not going to use it. <smile>
>I have to keep my files in their proper format, to translate and
>braille them with Duxbury.
>Any help with NotePad Plus Plus and Window-Eyes is greatly
appreciated, please.
>Or if anyone has another better editor that will correctly read .doc.
>and .docx file, with Window-Eyes, I would greatly appreciate this
so very much.
>Thanks much.
>Pat Ferguson
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