Pat,
Four things, recognizing that in the end you need to do what is
comfortable for you. If you take text out of a word document with
Notepad++ or other
editor, you lose the ability for Duxbury to do some of the automatic
formatting for you from formatting that is build into word documents.
Second, the
Microsoft converters that Jart needs are probably the free ones and
can probably be downloaded. Third, why not see what you can do with
documents
within Duxbury itself? You don't have to have Word to import a Word
document directly into Duxbury. Finally, and you are probably glad by
this point, if
you have Duxbury and you install Word, I am told that Duxbury will
install some styles right into Word that will let you handle some of
the braille formatting
needs from inside Word. It just seems to me that if you already have
paid the money for Duxbury, which is way more expensive than Microsoft
Office, that
using NotePad++ for this throws away some of the strengths of Duxbury
and I don't see what you are gaining.
Having said all this, I will restrain myself from saying more as there
are obviously things about what you are trying to do that I don't
understand.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:11:49 -0500, Pat Ferguson wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>I guess I can use NotePad Plus Plus. It seems to be working, and I
>don't have to associate any files. I just do the context thing arrow
>down to edit with notepad Plus Plus, andit opens it.
>I can edit these files pretty good, and take out all the "null null"
>and stuff. Window-Eyes does pretty good with NotePad Plus Plus, as
>long as I stay out of the menus.
>Jarte didn't work, as it will not open Word 97 and Word 2003 files
>without some kind of Microsoft converter.
>Do I have an older version of Jarte?
>Thanks much.
>Pat Ferguson
>At 08:42 PM 4/19/2012, you wrote:
>>Jarte should work fine for you. Be sure your default for saving the
>>file is Microsoft Word.
>>
>>Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Ferguson"
<[email protected]>
>>To: "Steve Jacobson" <[email protected]>
>>Cc: <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:09 PM
>>Subject: Re: Window-Eyes and NotePad Plus Plus
>>
>>
>>>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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