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Duxbury DBT Win Complete Release History

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Version / Build Created Date (Released Date)

Announcing Duxbury DBT Win 12.7 sr3

DBT 12.7 sr3
2024-04-11 (2023-04-17)

Duxbury Systems continually revises DBT to add new features, support new and updated embossers, and fix problems, as well as to respond to the latest revisions in braille rules, operating system updates, and third party changes.

Below you will find our advances and improvements since the prior release.

For more sources of information, please take advantage of "Check for Updates" from your DBT Help menu. Or, visit the Duxbury Website for both new information and historical information about DBT features and updates.

Service Release SR3 is free to all licensed users of DBT 12.7. It includes these fixes as improvements.

• JAWS scripts have been updated to fix reading of hard space characters in Formatted View.
• JAWS scripts handling of Find and Replace dialogs for braille documents has been corrected.
• Chuvash, Ingush, and Udmurt are identified as European, not Asian languages.
• Some uncommon contraction errors in English/Unified (UEB) have been corrected.
• Support for Cherokee and Navajo has been added.
• Croatian support has been updated and improved to match the latest specifications we have. Uncontracted braille is now the default.
• Swahili translation has been adapted specifically for Kenya. DBT now offers a Swahili (Kenya) template that supports a contracted braille code that appears to be used only in Kenya, and a Swahili (General) template for use elsewhere.
• We have increased the range of characters that can be imported into DBT, with particular increases in the characters to be imported into the Arabic, Hindi, and Devanagari scripts.
• DBT now imports the long division symbol (U+27cc) properly from MathType. In addition, the Nemeth Code templates properly translate the long division sign and barred brackets from print to braille and back to print again.
• Styles in the English BANA pre-UEB templates have been adjusted so that documents containing math give better support for Nemeth Code.
• There is a new template specifically for uncontracted UEB with Nemeth, to avoid the problem of switching into contracted braille following math segments.
• There are five fonts packaged with DBT: Braille, SimBraille, Braille Français, SimBraille Français, and Swell Braille. Each of these has been updated to version 3.1, incorporating these improvements:
• Encoding of Unicode Braille Patterns characters U+2800 through U+283F as well as Unicode U+2011.
• Improved appearance when ClearType is enabled. This change also applies to display of braille documents in DBT. Please note that disabling ClearType remains preferred.
• Technical fixes that may sometimes have prevented proper rendering, particularly of Braille, Braille Français, and Swell Braille.
• Braille-Build has been fixed and updated to generate version 3.1 fonts.
• Use of <esc>Pnn for Braillo 650SW embossers is restricted to values of nn 01-99. This corrects a problem with embossing certain larger documents.
• We have fixed a problem with single-sided output on classic Enabling Technologies embossers when a page contains graphics.
• The columnar table formatter is better able to handle tables with a few columns, some of which have lots of text.
• A bug that caused unnecessary "failsafe" formatting of tables has been fixed.
• A bug has been fixed to correct formatting of tables on pages witih antipicatory page headings, as used in the UK.
• The Word importer now correctly imports certain Word text boxes that were previously missed.
• The translated line display has been improved, to allow display of all or most codes. Use the "Formatted View Translated Line Codes" control in the Gobal View Preferences dialog to set this up.
• The translated line display for BANA with Nemeth documents eliminates spurious display of shall and which.
• DBT command line processing has been fixed. DBT will now exit now after processing files with /brf option or similar options, unless one or more files is opened using the command line as well.
• On some computers, DBT was prone to crashing when selecting certainly Edit menu items after closing a document. This has been corrected.
• An [mfcs] code without a corresponding [mfce] code will no longer cause DBT to lock up.

DBT 12.7 sr2
2023-10-03 (2023-10-02)

Service Release SR2 is free to all licensed users of DBT 12.7. It includes these fixes as improvements.

• Additional UI Automation and JAWS script improvements have been made, particularly improving the stability of DBT when running with UI Automation enabled and the JAWS screen reader in use.
• Handling of Nemeth in two templates, English (BANA Pre-UEB Textbook DE) - BANA and English (BANA Pre-UEB Textbook DE) - BANA Nemeth, has been corrected.
• English/Unified (UEB) braille-to-print translation has been improved. The same improvements are included in all the learning tables.
• Croatian braille-to-print translation has been improved.
• Serbian braille-to-print translation has been improved.
• Placement of the second page of a two page table has been corrected.
• When importing math as UEB with Nemeth, a problem in DBT 12.7 caused the loss of the space after problem numbers in a list of problems within the Nemeth switches. This problem has been fixed.

DBT 12.7 sr1
2023-9-06 (2023-9-11)

DBT 12.7 SR1 has been released free to all users of DBT 12.7 to fix a few critical issues:

• A new problem causing crashes with tabular material has been fixed.
• We fixed a few crashing problems when DBT is run with JAWS and UI Automation enabled.
• For reading lines in a braille document with JAWS, the default setting is once again reading the translated line. This corrects the unwanted default setting in DBT 12.7 of reading braille lines by character.
• DBT does not crash when you set a window of fewer than 9 lines.
• Import of braille files using "Orbit Reader" no longer favors uppercase. This improves subsequent braille-to-print translation.
• There is a new template "Haitian Creole". The translation is identical to French uncontracted.
• DBT can now read characters beyond U+FFFF; it supports 54 new Unicode ranges beyond this limit. These are largely ancient languages and additional Asian scripts. The most requested scripts are Cuneiform and Ugaritic. Click here for an external web page for the details.

DBT 12.7
2023-7-19 (2023-7-24)

DBT 12.7 provides the following important improvements and fixes and more.

Accessibility

• We have changed the JAWS keystroke in DBT to read the last word on the current line from Alt+Slash to Alt+End. The keyboard entry for Alt+Slash was causing problems for some users of non-English JAWS.
• We have fixed a problem with voicing DBT codes in the fields for Find and Replace and the fields for adding and modifying styles.
• JAWS scripts ensure that the grade of braille on a braille device on the print side matches the user's translation settings in JAWS.
• JAWS voicing of keystrokes on the Cosmo Brailler is improved.

Document Importing

• Importing .docx files avoids an unusual pitfall that could cause a DBT crash.

Document Exporting

• HTML and Word exports can reconstruct hyperlinks from DBT markup when a URL is included. Importers for HTML and .docx files produce the appropriate markup, so hyperlinks can, in effect, be preserved round-trip through braille.
• HTML and Word exports can be customized.
• HTML and Word exports improve handling of many DBT styles, producing better indent and runover in the output.

Math

• Nemeth math-only print-to-braille translation has been updated to prevent insertion of unwanted script indicators in certain instances.
• Nemeth math-only braille-to-print translation has been updated for miscellaneous improvements including to the handling of typeform indicators and math styles.
• Improved recognition of the start and end of math when importing Word documents.

DBT Operations / General

• Find and Replace dialogs support limited wildcard use in codes.
• A new parameter in the [ind] code allows for right alignment of many lines of text.
• The menu and dialog in the Global menu formerly labeled Autosave Options is now labeled File Locations. You can use this dialog to set default locations for Open and Save dialogs. The dialog still allows for management of autosave options.
• DBT supports a new command line switch /resetfilesavefolder or /resetfileopenfolder for use when the Save As dialog or Open dialog will not appear, or appears only after a long delay. Please contact technical support for help using this.

Language Updates

Flag	Description
	Bashkir: print-to-braille translation support added.
	Biblical Original Languages table improved (better tables, better language switching).
	Bulgarian: improved print-to-braille and braille-to-print translation, including hypenation issues; eliminated use of English contractions for embedded English script.
	Canadian aboriginal: many languages are now supported via syllabic support when importing documents into any UEB template.
	Danish: Supporting the new 2022 rules with print-to-braille and braille-to-print translation. We also support the older 1993 rules.
	English/Unified (UEB): print-to-braille translation of several unusual words has been improved.
	English/Unified (UEB) - United Kingdom: The new template (with some improvements) is called English (UEB) - UK formatting. The prior template is English (UEB) - UK formatting (legacy). Detailed documentation is available here.
	Estonian: braille-to-print translation improved the handling of spaces following emphasis. Localized display of braille documents added.
	Fula: Revised Fula translators are now identical to the new West African languages translators.
	Japanese: handling of Kanji is greatly improved, especially for words comprising multiple Kanji characters.
	Japanese: improved braille-to-print and print-to-braille handling of embedded Latin script text and certain special characters.
	Khakas: language support added.
	Khmer: braille-to-print translation improved the handling of independent vowels.
	Korean: braille-to-print translation improved the handling of a certain character after dots 126.
	N'ko (language and script): support through West African Languages.
	Slovak: improved print-to-braille and braille-to-print translation, using the latest rule book.
	Tifinagh (language and script): support through West African Languages.
	Vai (language and script): support through West African Languages.
	West African Languages: New language added (print-to-braille and braille-to-print). This is not an official code, but intended to serve for myriad West African languages with no currently defined official code, unless and until an official code is defined. Support for many scripts (Arabic, Extended Arabic, Amhrmic, N'ko, Vai, and Tifinagh) is included. More information is available online.

DBT 12.7 adds support for about 20 additional Unicode ranges. For a complete list, see the List of Unicode Ranges (halfway down the page).

We are constantly working on improved language support. If you are interested in specific language improvements, please write to us at languages@duxsys.com.

Notice: Microsoft Windows 7

You may still find occasional references to the Windows 7 operating system in these Help pages, but be warned that Microsoft has ended support of Windows 7, and security updates ceased as of January 2020. For this reason, Duxbury cannot recommend using DBT on Windows 7 computers or on any earlier Microsoft operating system.

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DBT 12.6 sr2
2023-3-06 (2023-3-22)

This is an update to fix a number of structural problems with DBT related to installation.

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DBT 12.6 sr1
2022-12-8 (2023-1-12)

Duxbury Systems continually revises DBT to add new features, support new and updated embossers, and fix problems, as well as to respond to the latest revisions in braille rules, operating system updates, and third party changes.

Below you will find our advances and improvements since the prior release.

For more sources of information, please take advantage of "Check for Updates" from your DBT Help menu. Or, visit the Duxbury Website for both new information and historical information about DBT features and updates.

DBT 12.6 SR1 provides the following important improvements and fixes and more.

Reference Page Numbering

Reference Page Numbering, also known as Print Page Numbering, is an important formatting feature of textbooks and other documents where collaboration with inkprint readers is important. DBT 12.6 SR1 has made several important improvements to the handling of Reference Page Numbering:

• DBT's formatter can automatically increment reference page numbers in both print and braille documents.
• The code used to trigger automatic incrementing can be assigned to the keyboard shortcut used for introducing new Reference Page Numbers, by using the Shortcut Preferences Dialog in the Global menu.
• Importing page break locations from Word (.docx) files now works with modern desktop versions of Word and on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
• For users of Duxbury's BANA Template for Microsoft Word, we've made one other improvement. Where a RefPageNumber paragraph style is used in the middle of a list, DBT will automatically convert this to a RefPageNumberEmbed style to avoid erroneous skipped lines in the list.

Accessibility

• With the current JAWS script files, JAWS 2022 is no longer having problems with using the appropriate grade of braille on refreshable braille devices.
• JAWS no longer chatters when the user translates to braille or toggles between Formatted and Coded view in a braille document
• We have restored the JAWS ability to properly handle highlighting with Control+H in DBT 12.4 or below. [We should probably omit this item.]
• We have fixed a problem that caused JAWS to speak character entry as braille characters when using Find or Replace in print documents.
• JAWS now does more appropriate voicing for navigating through tables and matrices in DBT, including two-page tables. For appropriate voicing in two-page tables, make sure the table starts on an even numbered page (a lefthand page in interpoint braille).
• Previously JAWS cursor tracking could have problems in Coded View unless you intervened in the DBT shortcut properties under Compatibility ‑> High DPI settings. That is no longer needed, as the desired solution is now built into DBT.
• The Canute Braille E-Reader is now supported by DBT.

Document Importing

• We corrected imports of files tagged for spelling/grammar when Word uses the bidi attribute instead of the val attribute to mark the language. This affects, in particular, .docx files containing blends of English and Hindi.
• There are several fixes for importing Word documents with MathType expressions. These changes fix problems with use of the prime symbol and accidental use of a forced hyphen. Importation of function names followed by a Greek letter is also fixed.
• Custom importers (command lines specified in dbt.uit) are no longer restricted to eight-bit command lines, and the command lines are essentially unlimited in length. This makes is more generally possible to use a custom importer on any given document file, regardless of the name and location of the file.
• Custom importers may produce UTF-8 output, provided that a Byte Order Mark is placed at the start of the file. The Byte Order Mark is three bytes: 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF. DBT will not compress spaces for UTF-8 custom importer output files, as it does for customer importer output files encoded as DUSCI.
• DBT can properly import indexed roots ([ixtrs]...[ixrte]) from OpenXML (.docx) mathematics markup.
• Importing .docx files containing numerous footnotes and/or endnotes is now more stable, uses less memory, and is faster.

Document Exporting

• Korean text is exported properly to .prf files (but only when UTF-8 encoding is selected)

Math

• We have changed the math style in the templates English (BANA Pre-UEB Textbook DE) - BANA Textbook Fmt and English (BANA Pre-UEB Textbook DE) - BANA Nemeth. Instead of using the codes [ts] and [te] to switch into and out of technical notation, the math style now switches into and out of the Nemeth translation table. This change makes the translated line meaningful for Nemeth technical notation in these pre-UEB templates.
• See other math changes in the language improvements.

Embosser Support

• DBT now supports Z-fold format on Index FanFold embossers
• QuickTac and similar (.sig format) graphics may be produced on ViewPlus embossers, when embedded in a DBT document.
• A problem that caused DBT to improperly scale TactileView images on ViewPlus embossers has been fixed.
• We have fixed a DBT bug that caused excessive popup errors when embossing to Nippon Telesoft Super Gemini embossers with interline print.

DBT Operations / General

• The G1Passage style has been added to all UEB templates. This should be used for spelling lists and similar items as directed by the UEB rule books.
• We have corrected the processing of modified End Codes in Custom formatted tables of contents.
• We have corrected two issues with Replace All in the Editor. The first problem is that the Replace All logic will miss a code (or, presumably, text) that is to be replaced the second (and fourth, etc.) time where it appears immediately after itself. The second problem is a popup message that reports DBT is unable to locate a cursor when Replace All is complete.
• DBT better supports two-page tables. These are tables whose rows spread between two braille pages.
• A potential for DBT to lock up during translation has been resolved.
• Minor updates have been made in the UKAAF template to improve formatting, including of poems.

Language Updates

Flag	Description
	All Languages of India: fix apostrophe
	Assamese: Repair some letter combinations
	Hindi: handle English in braille to print.
	Khakas: (adding a new language); This is a minority language spoken in Russia
	Lithuanian: Respecting emphasis in braille to print.
	Nemeth Code: fix spacing issues near boldface and a few other things.

We have made several "internal" improvements, with potential impact on other languages, including Cherokee, Canadian Aboriginal languages, Japanese, and several West African languages, though these improvements are not fully exposed in the update. If you are interested in this work, or any other language improvements, please write to us at languages@duxsys.com.

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DBT 12.6
2022-4-15 (2022-4-25)

DBT 12.6 provides the following important improvements and fixes and more.

User Interface/ Commands / Accessibility

• DBT Editor, Coded View: improved display of non-breaking spaces, non-breaking hyphens, and assisted hyphens.
• Cut and Paste in the SEARCH and REPLACE Dialog: When working on a braille document, the DBT editor now allows cutting and pasting codes containing the tilde (~) and other non-braille characters.
• Replace All: This editing function has been revised for stability and should always produce the expected result.
• JAWS: The JAWS scripts are updated for those using JAWS 2022 with DBT and a braille display, which eliminates problems that caused JAWS to use the wrong grade of braille on the braille display. Additional improvements to the JAWS scripts include improved eBrailler Cosmo support.
• For the Mac platform, greatly improved cursor routing support with refreshable braille displays.

Embosser Support

• Super Gemini Embosser:  Duxbury added support in DBT (Win) for variations in the font used for interline print.
• Index Embossers and Humanware (Enabling) Embossers: NEW! Selecting DP6 (double-sided landscape z-fold embossing) versus DP7 (single-sided landscape z-fold embossing).
• Braillo 300, 300 S2, 450 S2, 600, 600 S2: The page length specifications for A4 paper on all these models has been updated (to 83 x 117).
• Enabling Embossers (the classic models that support graphics): Both center and right alignment of tactile graphics output as specified.

DBT Operations / General

• Command line processing: has implemented the command line switch /RemovePrinterInfo, used when saving custom DBT templates.
• The command line now handles wide Unicode characters for file names that can appear in world alphabets.
• Editing: Duxbury fixed a number of customer issues including a reported crash under certain circumstances of saving a file, and a problem inserting a Word document into an open DBT editing session when using Coded View with JAWS and UI Automation.
• Templates: Updated the "English (UEB) - UK formatting (UKAAF)" template to cure problems in SWIFT.
• Activation: Minor improvements to the activation wizard.
• DBT Installer: A bug that could install the support file "en/actwiz.mo" multiple times has been fixed.

Document Importing

• Math Type imports: We resolved a problem in trigonometric functions such as sin, cos, tan, etc., when followed by a Greek letter; the needed space after the function name is now present.
• Orbit Reader imports / BRL Files: the Orbit Reader import filter has a change to ensure that the braille dot patterns dot 4, dots 45, 1256, 246, 12456, and 456 are mapped to the preferred ASCII character to allow recognition by the braille-to-print translators. This makes the Orbit Reader Import filter a good choice when importing .brl files from any refreshable braille device.

• LaTeX: improvements cover additional cases of emphasis/typeform indicators in the markup.

Language Updates

Flag	Description
	Languages of India: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Panjabi, Sinhala, Telugu. The accuracy of the braille-to-print translations for these Indian languages has been improved.
	All eleven official languages ofSouth Africa: have fully functional braille-to-print translators suitable for demanding applications (Afrikaans, English, and the nine indigenous languages: Ndebele, Nguni, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu).
	Mathematics Braille: There is a correction for the "identical to" symbol (dots 456 123456) in the English (UEB) braille-to-print table and in 11 non-English braille-to-print tables: including Afrikaans, Welsh, Irish, Biblical Original Languages, Esperanto, and several of the indigenous South African languages.
	Amharic: The print-to-braille translation table, and braille-to-print table, are updated to correct the representation of the Amharic syllable "do", and to extend support for the "simplified mode."
	Biblical Original Languages tables improved.
	Danish, Greenlandic: The translation tables in both directions, print-to-braille and braille-to-print, have been updated to correct handling of certain indicators, including emphasis and termination of capitals, and to remove pre-UEB American-style English braille as a secondary language. The associated Danish (and Greenlandic) uncontracted tables were likewise updated.
	English / UEB: The English/Unified Braille translation tables, both print-to-braille and braille-to-print, have been updated to disallow interior type form changes within words standing alone, which affects short-form usage in rare cases. They also correct the contraction usage of several unusual words, and include the recent decisions of the UEB Code Maintenance Committee. The "learning series" (partial contraction) tables for BANA: TSBVI Clusters, Mangold Method, and NLS I.M.B.T.; those for UKAAF/BAUK: Braille in Easy Steps, Fingerprint (UEB), and Take off Series; and OTHERS: RNZFB STAR and S.A. Syllabus Level are included in these updates. If you wish us to include your language's curricula for learning tables, please contact us at: languages@duxsys.com.
	Finnish: The braille translation tables in both directions, print-to-braille and braille-to-print, have been updated to correct emphasis indicators and a punctuation mark.
	Quebec French, Pre-Unified: The print-to-braille table corrects the encoding for a square shape input character.
	Greek: The print-to-braille table is updated to correct the encoding of dasia in the entry for alpha upsilon with varia and dasia.
	Igbo: NEW! This language now has a braille-to-print (reverse) translation table. Also, the print-to-braille translation table is updated to correct the representation of several characters.
	Latvian: The braille translation tables in both directions, print-to-braille and braille-to-print, have been updated to conform to newer standards for certain indicators and punctuation marks.
	Mathematics – Nemeth Code: The Nemeth translator already adds spaces around many signs of comparison including all of the common ones. This handling has just been added for double length arrows. Also, when a comparison sign is at the end of a math style, the translator now correctly adds a space before the sign but not after it. In addition, we fixed a problem that could cause the omission of a baseline indicator needed after a term with subscripts and/or superscripts when followed by a trigonometric function.
	Romanian: The print-to-braille translation table has been updated to provide support for Cyrillic characters, still sometimes found in Romanian and Moldovan text.
	Serbian: Improved braille-to-print translation including the correction of two non-alphabetic symbols in Cyrillic text.
	Slovak: Updated print-to-braille & braille-to-print tables for a number of symbols specified by the Slovak braille authority. Also, fixed the local encoding to enable correct Slovak braille display.
	Slovenian: Because of recent contact with Slovenian braille experts, we have reworked the Slovenian print-to-braille table. The changes include the typeform indicators (bold, italic, etc.), and the decimal comma. A corresponding braille-to-print table has been developed, and a new template added for grade 1 (uncontracted) Slovenian braille.
	Swedish: has improved translation tables in both directions, print-to-braille and braille-to-print, respecting certain punctuation signs and emphasis indicators.
	Urdu: The print-to-braille translation table has been updated to correct the representation of the Arabic letter "heh goal" (Unicode: U+06C1).

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DBT 12.5 SR4
2021-10-22 (2021-11-09)

Service Release 4 of DBT 12.5 provides the following important improvements and fixes and more.

• Translation table improvements:
  • All eleven South African languages now have braille-to-print translators.
  • Several UEB and UEB-compatible (non-English) braille-to-print translation tables have been updated to correct the translation of dots 456, 123456 to U+2261, the "identical to" sign, instead of U+224D, the "equivalent to" sign (used in mathematics).
  • The Serbian braille-to-print translation table has been updated to correct two non-alphabetic symbols in Cyrillic text.
  • The pre-unified Quebec-French print-to-braille table has been updated to correct the encoding for a square shape input character.
  • The Greek print-to-braille translation table has been updated to correct the encoding of "dasia" (rough breathing) in the entry for alpha upsilon with varia and dasia.
• Embosser updates:
  • The page length for A4 paper on select Braillo models (300, 450, and 600, including the S2 models) has been updated.
  • DBT now handles interline print for Super Gemini embossers, which formerly dropped text that appeared before two or more spaces.
  • Improved connection to the Cosmo brailler.
• DBT editor improvements:
  • The coded view display of non-breaking spaces, non-breaking hyphens, and assisted hyphens has been corrected.
  • Edit, Go To, now works when used to find a reference (print) page.
• JAWS: The DBT JAWS scripts have been adapted to the changes in the current release of JAWS 2022. This fixes a problem that could make the braille on a braille display unreadable when working in a DBT braille document.

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DBT 12.5 SR3
2021-06-16 (2021-07-06)

Service Release 3 of DBT 12.5 provides the following important fixes and improvements.

• New Option: .brf files may be saved in a "12.4 compatible" format.
• The Norwegian (Uncontracted) template is fixed.
• LaTeX exports are improved (math-related styles).
• A defect in the recommended network installation process has been corrected.
• Handling of mathematics is improved in documents exported to Word.
• Fixed a layout issue in the "Device Settings" panel of the embosser definition dialog, affecting only Braillo embossers.
• Embosser Updates:
  • DBT can emboss to an embosser connected on a networked CUPS server.
  • Placement of centered or right-aligned graphics images on Index embossers is corrected; likewise on Enabling Technologies embossers from Humanware.
  • Output to A3 and A4 (landscape) papers on Index embossers is improved.
  • Braillo embosser output to folded sheet booklets now works with single-sided braille.
• Translation table improvements:
  • Braille-to-print translation of Sotho and Tswana is now supported.
  • Venda braille-to-print translation is improved.
  • Estonian translation is improved.
  • Print-to-braille translation is improved for several Indic languages.
  • Hebrew (American) print-to-braille translation is improved.
  • English (UEB) print-to-braille translation is improved.

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DBT 12.5 SR2
2021-04-02 (2021-04-27)

Service Release 2 of DBT 12.5 provides the following important fixes and improvements.

• New translation tables:
  • Welsh braille-to-print.
• Translation table improvements:
  • French print-to-braille,
  • UEB use of French (as an embedded foreign language) fixes braille to print handling of dots 2-4-6.
• Stability: this release fixes a crash in DBT's Coded View.
• User Interface Automation: strengthened "thread-safety" improves stability when UI Automation is on.
• JAWS scripts allow for 8-dot braille, i.e., braille displays using 8 dots now interact correctly with JAWS.

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DBT 12.5 SR1
2021-02-01 (2021-02-02)

Service Release 1 of DBT 12.5 principally improves program stability when running with a UI Automation client, e.g. a screen reader.

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DBT 12.5
2021-01-14 (2021-01-19)

Duxbury Systems continually revises DBT to add new features, fix problems, and to respond to changes in braille rules, embosser and operating system updates, and third party changes.

Below you will find our latest advances since the prior release.

For more sources of information, please take advantage of "Check for Updates" from your DBT Help menu. Or, visit the Duxbury Website for both new information and historical information about DBT features and updates.

Faster Software Response

DBT operations have been considerably accelerated: translated line display, editing, pasting large blocks of text, etc., are significantly faster than any prior version of DBT.

Document Importing

• DBT imports any Alt Text attached to images as paragraphs by themselves when imported from Word documents.
• The Word (.docx) importer has corrections and improvements to: paragraph number handling, the handling of language switches, and text set in Duxbury's French braille fonts. It also more fully automates markup of table header rows, and its UEB Typeform mappings feature is improved.
• DBT will center otherwise unstyled lines imported from Word documents.
• A low-level defect that may have caused document corruption in the past during imports and editing has been eliminated.
• The Word importer will correct problematic Listed Table markup introduced by SWIFT.
• Import of certain Cantonese text has been corrected.
• Import of Unicode markup with combining diacritics (including U+0300 and U+0301) has been improved.
• Automated markup of hyperlinks that include parameters is improved.

User Interface

• New controls in the Table of Contents dialog handle reference page numbering and improve TOC layout.
• New options are added to the Create Template dialog to include printer setups, embosser setups, and/or include text and codes in your custom templates. Adding these options will save the template in binary format. Without them the template is saved in text format.
• A new menu item allows you to undo "Don't show me this again" dialog preferences.
• The translated line display is cleaner in formatted view.
• On-screen display of the hard hyphen character (D+EC41) is fixed. This character frequently appears in UEB when translating an underline or macron.
• The Activation Wizard is newly localized to French and Korean. The Activation Wizard will run in your preferred interface language, when a translation is available.
• The Activation Wizard has been improved to more readily allow switching licenses and to give better details in case of a failure to connect to a network license server.

Major Improvements

• Improvements to forward and back translation for over 40 languages! ( See the Languages section for details.)
• Support for 7 new embossers and improved support for 7 current embossers. (See Embosser Improvements below.)
• The Listed Table and Stair step Table formatters are greatly improved.
• Non-breaking spaces can be copied from DBT documents to other applications intact.
• The Swell Braille font is included with DBT. This font is used when printing on swell paper: dots are 80% of normal to allow for swelling when passed through the fuser.

Braille Mathematics

Embosser Improvements

• ViewPlus Columbia support is improved. Note: Updated drivers are strongly recommended for macOS.
• ViewPlus Delta embossers support booklet printing on 11 x 17 paper.
• Braillo: DBT offers more direct support for variable line spacing on Braillo embossers. A separator sheet can now be placed between copies when writing to Braillo 600 SR embossers.
• DBT supports all Braillo's new "Series 2" (S2) embossers (the 300, 450, and 600).
• Interpoint 55 output can be sent in reverse order.
• Irie embosser support is improved. Front/back page alignment of interpoint output on the Irie BrailleTrac 120 is corrected.
• DBT supports the TactPlus™ EasyTactix embosser,
• the ViewPlus SpotDot,
• the APH PageBlaster, and APH PixBlaster.
• TranSend SE support now includes the EPSON FX-2190II ESC/P model now sold by Humanware.

Language Updates

Flag	Description (** = New Language)
	Afrikaans: Translation is improved in both directions, especially in the braille-to-print direction.
	** Basque: newly added language (uncontracted), spoken in Spain.
	Biblical original language study print-to-braille translation, supports Ethiopic script and fixes Greek language tagging and other minor problems.
	** Chewa (a.k.a., Nyanja): newly added language, spoken in Malawi.
	Danish translation uses German math, when using the math style of the Danish template.
	Dutch print-to-braille and braille-to-print translation has been updated to support more recent standard representations of braces. Dutch localization is now supported.
	English BANA Formatting: spurious skipped lines are eliminated when headings precede a set of directions and likewise between directions and a following list.
	English/UEB translation is updated to support section 7.6 of Rules of Unified English Braille (October 2019) regarding quotation marks. Several other language tables, which use UEB conventions for quotation marks, contain this same update. Print-to-braille translation of a number of uncommon words has been corrected. In UEB transcription, a word that breaks across more than two lines will include a continuation indicator at all appropriate places.
	The English (UEB) - UK formatting (UKAAF) template and corresponding style map are updated.
	Estonian print-to-braille and braille-to-print translation has been improved through feedback from an Estonian user. The Estonian template now reserves the bottom line of each page for braille page numbers with no preceding text.
	** Faroese: newly added language, spoken in Faroese Islands.
	Filipino, Tagalog, and the regional languages of the Philippines (Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Iloko): The basic templates for all of the Philippine languages are now set to use the Nemeth code for mathematics and technical notation as their standard choice.
	French (Unified) braille translation is updated to correct the treatment of Greek letters and currency symbols. The French tables improve print-to-braille handling of ligatures preceded by a hyphen, they perform better capitalization of combined letters, better handling of certain spaced numeral expressions, and improved braille-to-print translation of math and text. Along with these, the handling of French footnote and endnote reference numbers has been fixed.
	** Fulah (a.k.a, Fula): newly added language (print to braille), spoken in Guinea.
	** Galician: newly added language (uncontracted), spoken in Spain.
	** Greenlandic (Kalaallisut): newly added language (uncontracted), spoken in Greenland.
	** Guarani: newly added language (uncontracted), spoken in Paraguay and other nations.
	Hebrew (American) print-to-braille translation corrects certain combinations involving shuruq.
	** Hmong (RPA): newly added language, spoken in Southeast Asia and the United States.
	Icelandic: braille-to-print translation handles emphasis indicators.
	Ingush (a Russian minority language): print-to-braille translation of a characteristic letter has been corrected.
	Japanese: Japanese documents are imported using the On'yomi system of Han characters rather than the Kun'yomi. Handling of embedded Latin script text is improved.
	** Kalanga: newly added language, spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
	** Kikongo (Kongo): newly added language, spoken in Angola.
	** Kinyarwanda: newly added language, spoken in Rwanda.
	** Kirundi (Rundi): newly added language, spoken in Burundi.
	** Kituba: newly added language, spoken in Congo.
	Korean: braille-to-print translation has minor corrections. Korean localization is markedly improved.
	** Leb-Lango: newly added language, spoken in Uganda.
	** Lisu: newly added language (print to braille), spoken in China, Myanmar and Thailand.
	** Luba-Kasai (Luba-Lulua): newly added language, spoken in Congo.
	** Madurese: newly added language, spoken in Indonesia.
	** Malagasy: newly added language, spoken in Madagascar.
	Norwegian translation uses German math, when using the math style of the Norwegian template.
	** Oromo: newly added language, spoken in Ethiopia.
	** Quechua: newly added language, spoken in Bolivia and other nations.
	** Sundanese: newly added language, spoken in Indonesia.
	Swedish translation (both directions) has been updated to correct several issues with punctuation signs and emphasis indication, and to align better with published standards.
	** Tonga (a.k.a., Chitonga, Zambezi): newly added language, spoken in Zimbabwe.
	Ukrainian braille-to-print translation has been corrected. The Ukrainian template now shows the capital letter sign in braille.
	** Umbundu: newly added language, spoken in Angola.

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DBT 12.4 sr1
2019-03-07 (2019-03-12)

Primarily, this service release resolves issues reported with respect to specific embossers.

• For Columbia embossers, this release realigns the front to back registration, restoring the correct spacing.
• For the Interpoint Elekul 55 (Belgium), output has been fully updated to restore all functionality. (A Reminder: It is important that the path to PRINT55.EXE be properly set in the Device Settings tab of the Global Embosser Setup. A newly created embosser setup will have this set correctly by default.)
• The TranSend SE embosser has a restored font list.

In addition:

• We have modified DBT's .bru importer w.r.t. importing notetaker .brl files. (These braille files are typically formatted with each paragraph as one long line.) If you begin your .brl file with the four characters "_%_:", the DBT importer treats the file as Nemeth Code in UEB context, causing it to automatically assign the styles math and math-TextInMath where appropriate. This handling matches the .brf file importer handling for .brf files starting with those four characters.
• - We have revised and updated the DBT Help files, focusing on the topics that describe the different braille translators. We hope that customers gain a better understanding of the Duxbury DBT translators through our efforts to improve our documentation.

The core of Duxbury DBT and its translators has not changed.

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DBT 12.4
2018-12-20 (2019-01-03)

Major Improvements

• For lengthy file imports, DBT now displays a progress bar.
• DBT opens files faster, with quicker performance in general operations.
• In UEB templates, there is a new chemistry style. For any technical notation within the chemistry style, there is no use of word or passage capital indicators, as each capital letter is capitalized separately.
• The NEW Bristol Braille Canute Mk13 Braille eReader is supported as an embosser.
• Graphic images in centered headings are now well handled.
• The BANA Listed Tables format is restored.
• The insertion of [hl] codes is no longer restricted when importing DAISY or XML files, as it is for Word files.
• The biggest additions in languages are starter tables for the Arabic, German, Russian, and Spanish math (technical notation) braille systems. These braille math codes may impact braille production in over 80 countries.
  • Templates for these four languages all have a math style. For example, if you use the math style in a German template, you get German math braille. For ease of use, the math style is inserted automatically when you import a LaTeX file.
  • The Russian math translator affects technical braille for many languages: Armenian (Eastern), Azerbaijani, Belorussian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Ingush, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uzbek.
  • The Arabic language and unified Arabic braille rules are used in over 25 countries.
  • The Spanish language and unified Spanish braille rules are used in about 20 countries.
  • You are invited to test the math braille translators and send suggested improvements to languages@duxsys.com.
• Sample files for over a hundred languages are incorporated into the DBT Help so that you can quickly test DBT in an unfamiliar language.

Mathematics Braille

• UTF-8 conversion is now built into our LaTeX importer. This allows non-ASCII characters in the text: unusual accented letters, non-Roman scripts such as Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, etc., to be imported directly into DBT as combined text and math in a single step.
• The LaTeX importer now treats the code $$, when adjacent to a tab character, as the start or end of displayed math.
• The LaTeX importer no longer generates a space in cases where a LaTeX or MathType passage includes a "thin space". These extra spaces caused unneeded braille indicators in some math translators.
• The LaTeX importer no longer ignores some absolute value signs.
• The LaTeX importer now handles Greek letter variant forms, the so-called blackboard characters, and some additional special characters.
• Handling of reference page indicators in UEB with Nemeth is improved.
• The ending codes for the math style have been refined. We have moved the [i] code to the end, which prevents the insertion of the grade 1 indicator before certain punctuation marks, such as the question mark.

Embossers

• DBT can now generate interline print for Gemini embossers.
• DBT supports the ViewPlus "Tiger" registry key and enforces a 0.5 inch minimum top margin for the Columbia embosser.
  • The Columbia model, with a top margin setting of 0 now has an effective 0.5" top margin. A top margin setting of 1 has an effective 0.65" top margin. For higher top margin settings in DBT, the effective margin is 0.4" times the number entered in DBT.
• For dual ink and braille embossers, DBT eliminates most inappropriate gaps in the inkprint text.
• DBT codes no longer appear in the interline print of embosser output.
• For entries in the printer queue, DBT no longer adds "(Ink)" to the document name when not appropriate.
• DBT now prints TactileView (TV) Images to the Columbia embosser - and presumably other ViewPlus embossers - at the intended size. Note that the image size is not set directly from DBT, but DBT ensures that the size should be the same in the output as on screen. (Note: the size is determined by the image height, and images that are too wide for the page are likely to be clipped. For such images, direct output from TV may be the appropriate approach.)

Language Updates

According to the 2013 UNESCO document World Braille Usage, Arabic Pre-2002 is the official Arabic translator for Bahrain, Iran, Malaysia, and Indonesia. DBT now has a template for the Pre-2002 Arabic translator.

To assist those studying ancient languages, a new template and translator for the transcription of Semitic Languages has been added.

The English UEB translation table was changed to allow the functionality of the chemistry style, and also to refine the contraction use in a series of uncommon words.

Language Improvements

Flag	Description
	Arabic: adds a math-only print-to-braille translator invoked by using the math style. (Note: preliminary.)
	Dhivehi: newly added language, spoken in the Maldive Islands.
	Estonian: the template now reserves the bottom line of each page for braille page numbers with no preceding text.
	German: adds a math-only print-to-braille translator invoked by using the math style. (Note: preliminary.) Also, German has improvements in both the print-to-braille and the braille-to-print translators, especially as regards the "ung" contraction.
	Hindi: braille-to-print improves handling of single and double quote marks.
	Portuguese: some improvements in the handling of punctuation.
	Russian: adds a math-only print-to-braille translator invoked by using the math style. (Note: preliminary.) The braille-to-print translator improves the translation of certain letter/number combinations.
	Slovenian: the template now reserves the bottom line of each page for braille page numbers with no preceding text.
	Spanish: adds a math-only print-to-braille translator invoked by using the math style. (Note: preliminary.)
	Ukrainian: the template now shows the capital letter sign in braille.
	Uzbek: the translators reflect a minor change in the braille translation rules that removes an ambiguity about the braille 'e'.
	Vietnamese: better handling of letter d and letter d with a stroke, (đ) U+0111.

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DBT 12.3 sr1
2018-07-03 (2018-07-05)

There were two problems with DBT 12.3: a serious formatting glitch and issues related to Russian capitalization. These were fixed in this service release which also includes a substantial improvement to the Irish translator.

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DBT 12.3
2018-06-20 (2018-06-21)

Duxbury Systems continually revises DBT to respond to braille rules changes, make fixes, and to add new features. Below you will find our latest changes since the last release.

For other sources of information, possibly newer than that included here, please take advantage of Check for Updates from the DBT Help menu. Or, visit the Duxbury Website for both new information and historical information about DBT features and updates.

New Braille Embossers

• DBT adds support for two new Irie embossers, the BrailleSheet 120 and the BrailleTrac 120.
• Graphics on Index V5 embossers now output using the "floating dot" format. One benefit is that TactileView graphics output successfully when embedded in a DBT document sent to an Index V5 embosser.

Math Improvements

• MathType 7 is now supported.
• French mathematics braille is now supported in the French Unified braille-to-print translator.
• Users can now import braille formatted files (BRF's) containing UEB with Nemeth Code, as long as the file starts with a special 4-cell braille header: _%_:
• The MAVIS module now correctly recognizes mixed numbers at the start of math mode.
• The arc sign is now recognized.
• The English/Unified (UEB) print-to-braille table accepts U+27C2 for the "perpendicular" symbol.
• DBT's LaTeX importer now allows a "pass through in math" section to be more flexible about characters appearing at the end of a paragraph.
• The LaTeX importer allows "pass through in math" with the math-TextInMath style, to be used in additional situations, such as when items are separated by LaTeX \vspace commands or sectioning commands (like \section and \subsection).
• The LaTeX importer and exporter now handle European accented letters.
• For Nemeth Code in UEB context, the end Nemeth Code indicator is now set up to be on the same line as the last item in Nemeth Code.
• For Nemeth Code in UEB context, the new styles RefPageUEBSwitch (and the RefPageUEBSwitch-Embed version) now allow for a new reference page number in UEB without having to terminate and restart Nemeth Code.

General Improvements

• DBT initialization is now much faster.
• DBT has improved copying from a braille document into a target other than DBT, such as CorelDRAW.
• DBT's Excel importer handles dates in the default format when no format is specified.
• Enhanced "code page" selection; allowing greater freedom to import non-English, non-Unicode textfiles.
• The "F5" codes list no longer displays antiquated ampersand codes.
• The "UEB Pharmaceutical" template is now called "English (UEB) Pharmaceutical".
• The two pharmaceutical DBT templates now suppress braille page numbering.
• The JAWS script files no longer say "same spot" to alert the user that the cursor is remaining in place while repeatedly pressing the left or right arrow in formatted view. Instead JAWS makes a subtle click.
• When you have checked the Global View setting Use verbose labels for non-ANSI characters, JAWS speaks the Unicode value from the DBT status line when voicing a character or its Unicode number. This is very helpful when navigating a DBT print document containing Asian languages that use composite characters, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Hindi.

Language Updates

Flag	Description
	Bulgarian: Now uses dots 46 as the caps sign.
	Dutch: Many punctuation problems fixed; capitalization and emphasis modernized per the latest published rules.
	French: Many significant changes; handling of new characters, improved forward and back translation. Notable features are support for emphasis and for mathematics in braille-to-print.
	Hebrew-American: Now makes a proper transition from Hebrew to UEB in the print-to-braille direction.
	Languages of India: Better support for punctuation and dependent / independent vowels in braille-to-print (all languages of India).
	Irish: The print-to-braille now includes new shortforms defined in early 2018 and also corrects contraction usage in certain bridging situations.
	Italian: Better handling of the period (full stop) and dots 34 in braille-to-print (distinguishing i grave from slash).
	Norwegian: Better handling of the period (full stop) and some other punctuation characters in braille-to-print translation.
	Russian: Russian: Now prevents use of the "ae", "ng", and "tc" combined characters, with improved comma handling in braille-to-print.
	Spanish: Fixed two punctuation characters in braille-to-print translation.
	Thai: Updated the braille-to-print translation direction to match recent work in print-to-braille.

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DBT 12.2 sr1
2017-12-19 (2018-01-09)

Major Improvements

• Allow use of braille fonts in DBT find (Edit Menu)
• Substantial improvements to the DBT Help
• Able to insert a DBT file into another file (restoring functionality)
• Mitigate the problem of not being able to generate braille fonts

UEB Improvements

• Updated all the UEB Templates, adding three "fixit" styles (see below)
• Fix the Exercise style in BANA with Nemeth Template, removing hidden right margin.
• Restore functionality to the Australian UEB Template

Math Improvements

• Fix for text above or below arrows in LaTeX importer

Misc. Changes

• You can not use a hard hyphen in a find string (restore 12.1 functionality)
• Remove the period at the end of a line for linear tables (respecting the new format rules).
• Allow braille entry of dots 456 via a braille device linked via JAWS
• It should now be possible to copy text from DBT and paste it into CorelDRAW!
• DBT no longer fails to reload images saved in .dxp or .dxb files when any of the images have no labels.

Language Improvements (All subject to Joe)

Flag	Description
	Biblical: based on recent English UEB table
	French: make sure dots 36 in a contaction is not confused with a hyphen.
	Hungarian: improve braille-to-print.
	Indic (Languages of India) updated for Myanmar; almost totally rebuilt from scratch
	IPA: fix one character on b2p.
	Mongolian: improve braille-to-print to recognize emphasis and other changes.
	Polish: improve grade one; plus punctuation both directions.
	Slovenian: improvements in print-to-braille; based on e-mail
	Taiwan: Thorough revision. See description in whats new for 12.2

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DBT 12.2
2017-08-25 (2017-08-25)

Duxbury Systems continually revises DBT to make fixes, respond to braille rules changes, and to add new features. The list below covers only changes since the last release. For the most recent information; possibly newer than that included here, please take advantage of Check for Updates from the Help menu. Or, visit the Duxbury Website for both new information and historical information about features and updates.

Primary Areas of Improvement

• JAWS script file improvements (see below)
• Translated Line is greatly improved and more responsive.
• Math improvements (see below)
• Contains new BANA 2017 Word Template with numerous improvements.
• DBT Templates are now readable text files. This allows skilled users to assemble their own templates much more easily.
• New Template for users in the United Kingdom: English (UEB) - UK Formatting (UKAAF)
• New Table of Contents Style - UK Basic - which follows UKAAF formatting recommendations.
• Improvements to the UEB translator (Unified English Braille) (see below)
• New embossers and embosser improvements (see below)
• TactileView integration repaired.
• Improved Help Content.
• Many internal efficiency improvements.
• Language improvements (see below)

English UEB

• Now supports document-specific Typeform Indicators as defined in the UEB Rules of Unified English Braille Section 9 for inkprint attributes that carry meanings the braille reader needs to know about . A range of such indicators can be defined such as the use of Script Font, Text Color or Highlight Color, as well as Drop Shadow and Outline Text. See the new user interface in the Global: Word-Importer dialogue.
• Certain currency expressions, when marked as "technical notation," no longer give rise to an unnecessary grade one word indicator.
• When a sequence of single capitalized letters is treated as a passage, the last such letter is included in the passage.
• If [ps]...[pe] (i.e. superscript) codes immediately surround a trademark symbol (U+2122), they are now discarded as redundant.
• Contractions of several uncommon medical terms have been improved.

New Embossers and Embosser Fixes

• Support for the Braillo 300 S2 has been added to DBT.
• TranSend SE is now supported on Romeo 60 and Juliet 120.

JAWS Improvements

• JAWS now has better support for the DBT Spell Checker.
• When reading a line as braille characters, for multiple spaces JAWS now says the number of spaces instead of speaking each space individually.
• The JAWS script files for DBT include several new keyboard commands:
  • Alt+Comma - once, speaks the current column position; twice, speaks the number of remaining characters on the line.
  • Alt+Period - once, speaks the number of characters on the line; twice, speaks the number of spaces on the left.
  • Alt+Slash: speaks the last word on the line.
  • Alt+Semicolon - new keystroke to toggle between the PC cursor and the JAWS cursor at the start of the translated line.
• No digits are missing when you press Alt+9 to hear location information.
• JAWS consistently speaks the new page number when you move from one page to another in a DBT document.
• For those using JAWS with refreshable braille using grade 2 translation, JAWS no longer says "computer braille" when DBT switches to a braille document window and the JAWS translation setting for refreshable braille changes to computer braille. Those announcements could be frequent, and users found them annoying.

Math Improvements

• For translating into Nemeth Code in UEB context, we have solved a problem that caused intermittent errors at the start of math sections, such as a missing numeric indicator for a number at the start of a Nemeth Code section.
• When importing a LaTeX file (from Scientific Notebook or another source) to create Nemeth Code in a UEB context, DBT now correctly suppresses the terminating and starting Nemeth indicators where there should be a "pass through in math" section; it also puts in the "one-word switch" where appropriate.
• When importing math for Nemeth Code in UEB context, embedded text in a math expression that occurs inside a pass through in math section no longer causes problems.
• The translated line no longer drops spaces in certain locations. Specifically, use of the math style now does not cause a space to be dropped on the translated line.
• When importing a LaTeX file that uses the command \includegraphics, the DBT document now gives the filename of the graphics file.

User Interface

• The Global, Word-Importer dialogue has a new option for mapping font characteristics to transcriber-defined Typeform Indicators for English UEB.
• Selecting the correct language for Han character import now happens automatically with the choice of a DBT template. (Previously this selection always had to be done manually from the Global, Import Options dialogue, and that option is still allowed if the user wishes to continue to specify the choice directly.)
• DBT updates documents immediately when certain global options are changed.

Miscellaneous Changes

• We have improved the display of the translated line in formatted print documents for languages that introduce discretionary hyphens.
• We have added two spaces to the formatted-view translated line at each place where a tab code is present in the markup.
• We have eliminated the introduction of a bullet and space at the start of some "numbered" paragraphs in .docx files, where Word itself does not show them.
• Treatment of blank cells in columnar tables has been amended to come more completely into compliance with BANA Guidelines.
• The BANA Listed Table format now conforms to BANA Formats 2011 (11.16.1.e), so that for each row, the first element is formatted as a cell-5 heading. (That first element is normally labeled with the column heading.)
• A Byte Order Mark, if present, is now stripped from the start of Unicode text imports, particularly when imported through DBT's formatted text importer.
• DBT now adds codes to control spacing within the Exact Translation style when importing Word .doc and .docx files.

Language Improvements

Flag	Description
	Biblical Languages: many improvements, including a practical braille-to-print translator.
	Bosnian: braille-to-print now uses the new Croatian braille-to-print translator.
	Cantonese (Yue): now uses space as a tone mark in restricted circumstances. Has an improved braille-to-print translator.
	Chinese Mandarin: improved file importer, improved print-to-braille and braille-to-print translation. It is now possible to mix Chinese and English (English segments must start with a capital letter).
	Chinese Mandarin (Taiwan): improved print-to-braille and braille-to-print translators, uses Zhuyin characters intead of Pinyin. It is now possible to mix Chinese and English (English segments must start with a capital letter).
	Croatian: now with a functional braille-to-print translator.
	Danish: braille-to-print translation properly uses the exclamation mark (when the dropped 'f' is at the end of a word) and better handles a contraction before a period (full stop).
	Dzongkha: DBT supports the new braille rules.
	IPA: handles the UEB indicators for brackets and slash.
	Korean: the braille-to-print translation has many improvements.
	Portuguese: now handles four additional punctuation marks in braille-to-print translation.
	Slovenian: the braille-to-print direction now uses the new Croatian braille-to-print translator.
	Spanish: braille-to-print translation can produce a proper period in all contexts.
	Thai: fixed two formerly incorrect characters in print-to-braille.
	Venda: improvements in print-to-braille; now includes a functional braille-to-print translator.
	Welsh (Cymraeg): fixed some previously incorrect contractions.

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DBT 12.1 SR1
2016-09-01 (2016-09-16)

Primary Improvements

• In all UEB templates as well as those derived from UEB, the computer braille styles are updated to render accurate word breaking. Only those templates specifically for older (pre-UEB) documents still enforce the Pre-UEB word breaking rules.
• The four DBT BANA templates (both UEB and Pre-UEB) are once again updated to the most recent versions. This corrects some formatting errors in the 12.1 BANA templates and includes BB-BoxBegin and H1-HeadingCentered.
• In the English/American (pre-UEB) print-to-braille tables, the output of underline symbols is restored.
• In the English/Unified (UEB) print-to-braille table certain contractions that follow an apostrophe have been improved.
• The Afrikaans print-to-braille table and Sotho print-to-braille table have been updated with contraction changes received recently from South Africa.
• Refinements in the Welsh print-to-braille table restrict shortform usage within large words to the officially approved list and ensure that strings of letters that could be read as extended shortforms are appropriately marked with grade 1 indicators. Other improvements include automated generation of hyphenation points within long technical expressions such as URLs.
• For Myanmar text, DBT now handles some additional, critical Burmese characters for translating Burmese text to braille.

This service release also features the following JAWS script improvements:

1. The script files for DBT 12.1 changed the technique for SayWord to insure the whole word was gathered and spoken. This change compromised making a selection. The latest script insures that if a selection is in progress, all the words in the selection are retained.
2. When using a braille display with JAWS 17, the script files manage the JAWS braille translation settings better (turning off input translation) to ensure that output translation is off when you are viewing a braille document.
3. The save and restore of a Speech Profile is now limited to JAWS version17 and higher to prevent "unknown function" errors in earlier versions of JAWS.
4. Repetitious announcements of "computer braille" when the window focus is shifted are now suppressed.

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DBT 12.1
2016-07-26 (2016-08-09)

Primary Areas of Improvement

• Many updates to DBT code and translation tables, including UEB.
• *.dxp (print) and *.dxb (braille) files are now interchangeable between DBT for Windows and DBT for Mac version 12.1
• The Basic DBT Templates have been streamlined (see below)
• New embossers and embosser fixes (see below)
• Math improvements (see below)
• 62 step UEB Mangold Method learning series now included in the Learning tables (Click here)
• Infrastructure changes to fix numerous issues with language switching and the translated line display in DBT
• Language improvements (see below)

DBT Templates Streamlined

• Historical DBT styles that no longer have effect have been removed
• Each Basic Template now has ten DBT styles that use language switching:
  • Biblical_lang (Biblical original language studies)
  • English_UEB1 (UEB grade 1)
  • English_UEB2 (UEB grade 2)
  • English_UK_old (British pre-UEB)
  • French
  • German
  • IPA
  • Italian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
• Italic, bold, and underline styles are now included in every basic language template
• Improved Russian formatting using a new Word style mapping file, rus.mws
• Better Australian formatting using a new Word style mapping file, aussie.mws, for UEB braille

Embossers

• New Embossers supported:
  • ViewPlus Columbia
  • Enabling Juliet 120
  • Enabling Romeo 60
  • Index V5 embossers
• Embosser fixes:
  • TactileView improved graphics support
  • Nippon Telesoft Gemini Super2 has been renamed as the Nippon Telesoft DOG-Pro
  • Nippon Telesoft DOG-Pro carriage width calculations are more accurate

Mathematics

Numerous additions to math functionality; here are the highlights:

• Many more unusual mathematics characters are now handled
• Spacing and control of spacing around function names in UEB math and French math have been improved
• Better importing of aligned structures
• Better handling of the Unicode minus sign
• Nemeth translation has been updated to use dot 6 for the comma when outside of "technical notation" but still in "Nemeth mode." This means that in the English (UEB) - BANA with Nemeth template, a comma in the style math-TextInMath is brailled as dot 6, rather than dots 456,2 following Nemeth rules.

JAWS Developments

Helpful additions in the JAWS script files for DBT, including:

• A better way for JAWS to announce style markup; it now says "begin style" and "end style"
• Editing in print and braille documents with JAWS is now snappier
• When moving by word in a braille document, JAWS no longer speaks the word as braille dots if you are also using a braille device
• When you press Control+H for highlighting in DBT, JAWS keeps better track of when the highlighting is turned off
• The script supports the use of a DBT-specific voice profile, with return to the default voice profile on leaving DBT
• When arrowing left or right in a braille document in coded view with high contrast on, JAWS no longer says "space" for every character
• In coded view, you can now navigate onto a left brace character ( { )

UEB Updates

• When translating material into UEB, the translator is more selective about switching to a grade one passage for technical notation
• Improved auto-hyphenation, including grouping of braille numbers 16 cells or less in length
• Symbols that are not hyphens nor dashes, but contain dots 36, are no longer allowed as potential line break points
• The translation of certain unusual names has been fixed
• The translation of mixed alpha-numerics, such as AA.12, has been adjusted to be easier to read in braille
• Mid-line ellipsis (U+22EF), double or triple dots over a variable name, and other uncommon math symbols, are now treated correctly
• The Latin letter schwa (U+0259) and primary and secondary stress symbols, when entered as U+02C8 and U+02CC respectively, are now supported
• Braille-to-print support for Old/Middle English letters: yogh, thorn, eth and wynn
• Plus many other changes to improve the production of UEB braille

Restored Functionality

• Restoration of the francais.mws Word style map file
• Repair of the Hindi file importer

Misc Features

• Improved read only text controls and their acceptance of keyboard focus
• Improved identification and differentiation of single and double quotes

Language Improvements

Flag	Description
	Catalan: Fixed percent sign and capitalization issues.
	Czech: Fixed ten punctuation characters.
	Many fixes for UEB English.
	Hungarian: Supports the new fully contracted 2014 Hungarian rules, both print-to-braille and braille-to-print.
	Japanese: Fixed the ryu, and a few other translation items.
	Korean: Fixes to improve both print-to-braille and braille-to-print translators.
	Spanish: added a Puerto Rico variation for certain punctuation marks.
	Spanish: back translation can now produce a number sign (#) with the "forcer" of dots 3456, 13. Additional "forcer" sequences are: dots 45, 56, 26, which produces inverted question mark; dots 45, 45, 26 produces upright question mark; dots 45, 56, 235 produces inverted exclamation mark; and dots 45, 45, 235 produces upright exclamation mark, regardless of context.

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DBT 11.3 SR1
2015-11-24 (2015-12-03 )

Primary Focuses of Improvement:

• DBT now imports files more quickly due to optimization of temporary files.
• Various Math Improvements (see below)
• Transcription of UEB Documents (see below)
• Transcription of Pre-UEB Documents (see below)
• Restoring Previous Functionality (see below)
• Language Improvements (see below)

Math Improvements

• The LaTeX importer now supports macros using \newcommand with parameters.
• DBT no longer has problems with null length text segments.
• Some additional LaTeX commands are now supported.
• We have made some improvements in how Nemeth material can be added to UEB literary braille.
• In using the LaTeX and Word importers for Nemeth within UEB, there has been a major improvement in the system for using [[*idle~ptims*]] and [[*idle~ptime*]] to set up a section where items outside of technical notation remain in Nemeth Code. This is intended specifically for problem labels within a section of problems consisting entirely of technical notation.
• Two other importer codes have been added to specify that the enclosed text should be treated as technical notation. These codes are [[*ts*]] and [[*te*]]. These codes are intended for importing math when not using MathType or LaTeX.
• The BANA Braille template has buttons for inserting these codes.
• In UEB braille documents with Nemeth Code, the print on the translated line is no longer garbled after the first occurrence of Nemeth Code.
• We have fixed a problem importing MathType objects within .docx files that have a # character in the file name.

Fixes for UEB

• The English/Unified (UEB) print-to-braille table has been updated to realize a preferred capitals treatment for the case of three successive initials.
• The bana_uk.mws file has been modified to use para DBT style rather than B-BodyText.
• The translator no longer prevents certain contractions from being used before at-sign (@), e.g. in email addresses.
• There have been other, minor fixes for UEB.
• DBT better supports breaking of the braille line in long URL's or long numbers.
• We have changed the default page numbering in the UEB/UK Formatting Template and the Cymraeg (Welsh) template to match UK standards.

Fixes for Susan Christensen Templates

• Updated Word BANA template, BANA Braille 2015.dot
  • 1-7 style is added to the Numbered menu
  • UEB open & close simbraille TN indicators are added to the DBT Codes menu
  • Code to force the UEB dash between guidewords is added to the Glossary menu
• Changes to the Nemeth Toolbar
  • One Word Bridge character style is added to the Nemeth menu
  • Text in Math start and end codes for UEB are added to the Nemeth Codes menu

Fixes for Pre-UEB

• Some fixes for the Table formatter.
• American English translator now gives dots 456, 256 for the bullet character U+2022.
• Problems on the translated line caused by Spurious identification of CBC half-line shift indicators has been eliminated.
• We have added the styles math and math-TextInMath to the two DBT templates for pre-UEB BANA formats

Restored Functionality

• DBT's removal of sk1 codes before/after pg codes as it completes importing a Word document has been restored.
• Some formatting behavior on Pre-UEB braille has been restored.
• Importation of DBT hard space markup from XML processing instruction markup has been restored.
• The automatic selection of the Daisy template, under certain circumstances, has been restored.
• Page numbering behavior for UK braille has been restored.
• The default user interface for first-time Russian users has been restored.
• The DBT support for the Formats 2011 system for underlining has been restored.

Misc Fixes

• The EN parameter sent to setup an ONCE Impacto Advanced embosser is restricted to the range 0-8.
• Exotic textfile importation has been improved.
• We have increased the number of Word styles that are mapped to DBT in the dbt.mws file
• The mws files have been modified to handle the Word style "Normal (web)" exactly like "Normal".
• There is a new feature in the Global View Options dialog called "Show line numbers in formatted braille" that is off by default.
• We have fixed many problems with the translated line and print interlining; for example the ;$d+ff80 at the start of the translated line when viewing Nemeth Code braille.
• We have changed the default page numbering in the UEB/UK Formatting Template and the Cymraeg (Welsh) template to match UK standards.
• We have fixed a longstanding defect in the .doc file importer. The defect would cause some paragraph styles to be mapped improperly, causing unacceptable formatting.
• We have improved the appearance and handling of assisted hyphens and hard spaces in the DBT translated line display.
• Many table formatting issues have been fixed.

Language Fixes

Flag	Description
	The Arabic translator has been updated to support the at-sign (@) as dot 4 per current Arabic rules
	Biblical original language studies, now handles the language Coptic as well as Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.
	The Cantonese translator restores the ability to mix Cantonese and English.
	The Danish print-to-braille and braille-to-print tables how handle the asterisk (*) correctly.
	The Farsi translator handles numbers rendered in traditional non-Arabic style.
	The Finnish print-to-braille and braille-to-print tables how handle the at-sign (@) correctly.
	There is a new translator for Ingush, a Russian minority language.
	The Russian print-to-braille and braille-to-print translators incorporate 2015 rule changes.
	We have fixed the handling of refreshable braille devices to act as screen access tools for DBT in Russian and Mongolian for both JAWS and NVDA.
	Russian localization is the default in Russian in DBT again; Russian localization for the Activation wizard has improved.
	Serbian (and related languages) print-to-braille table has been updated to add support for an unusual form of right quotation mark.

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DBT 11.3 2015-07-08 (2015-07-10)

Absolutely New Features

Amid hundreds of changes and no small number of improvements, the latest DBT presents three absolutely new features for our users:

• Save to MS Word! Under Save As, provided only that you have a copy of Microsoft Word on your computer, you can now save a print file from DBT as a Word file.
• TactileView Support! DBT now integrates with TactileView tactile graphics software. TactileView is a full-featured tactile graphics program that can be operated by any user, blind or sighted.
• Pre-UEB Braille Formatted File Importer! This new braille file importer converts older raw braille files into UEB files (English language only, without math).
• Instructions for Trying Out these New Features

Primary Focuses of Improvement:

• Braille translation using UEB (Unified English Braille)
• Math import, Math print-to-braille, and Math braille-to-print
• DBT Templates
• File Importation
• User Interface
• Accessibility and JAWS Script Files
• Activation Process
• Braille Embossers
• New Languages and Language Improvements: There are four new languages: Biblical original language studies, Chuvash, Javanese and Shona. Dozens of language translations have been improved. See the end of this web page for the details.


• See each section below for details and specific Instructions!

UEB (Unified English Braille)

• Typeform indicators in UEB more closely follow user expectations.
• Hard spaces around underlining commands, which are not appropriate for UEB, have been eliminated.
• The TSBVI "Clusters" learning series for UEB has been added to DBT's partial-contraction menu for English/UEB.
• Guide text for UEB should use dots (6,36) instead of (36,36). Click on the link below for the details. One issue is that making this change makes your files unsuitable for embossing with pre-11.3 DBT software.
• The oe ligature within French as a secondary language (within [lng~fra] ... [lng] codes) is now supported.
• Unicode U+2033 (double prime/inch symbol) is now supported.
• Using the inherently subscripted and superscripted Unicode digits (e.g. U+2083 "subscript 3") to form multi-digit, but otherwise simple, numeric subscripts and superscripts now works properly. (Normal math encoding must still be used for more complex expressions.)
• Capitalized passages are no longer extended beyond the end of a sentence or punctuated phrase when only a single capital letter (such as "I'm" or "A") follows and is more naturally capitalized separately.
• Instructions for Trying Out the UEB Improvements

Math Improvements

• When you Save As to Word, you can display DBT math equations in Word using MathType.
• When you Save As to LaTeX, you can display DBT math equations in Word using Scientific Notebook or Scientific Viewer.
• You can import braille formatted files in UEB text with UEB math, translate them into inkprint, and then produce them in inkprint using Scientific Notebook or MathType.
• You can import braille formatted files in UEB text with Nemeth math, translate them into inkprint, and then produce them in inkprint using Scientific Notebook or MathType. (You must follow our specific instructions to do this.)
• You can now easily produce Nemeth math within UEB braille with appropriate indicators (see Template Improvements).
• For the languages of India, Laos, and Thailand there are two templates, a basic template that handles UEB math, and a "with Nemeth" template that handles Nemeth math.
• Material from from Scientific Notebook no longer loses its formatting when imported.
• DBT no longer inserts line breaks for MathType objects not entered as in-line in MathType.
• Instructions for Trying Out these Improvements

DBT Template Improvements

• For easier recognition, we have renamed a number of templates. Instead of English (Unified), the names are now English (UEB). All English language templates not using UEB braille are marked pre-UEB.
• We created a new template for Nemeth code math within UEB, called English (UEB) - BANA with Nemeth.
• We include a new UEB Template for Australia: English (UEB) - Australian Formatting.
• We include a new UEB Template for New Zealand: English (UEB) - New Zealand (including Maori)
• We upgraded the English (UEB) - UK Formatting template with many additional styles.
• We modified several templates to better import files from Scientific Notebook.
• We updated most basic DBT templates so they can use the UEB math translator for math.
• Instructions for Trying Out these Improvements

File Open (Import)

• Former problems with paragraph numbering when importing files from Word and Open Office have been resolved.
• DBT's .docx importer now recognizes style names in files created with non-English editions of Word.
• Many aspects of file import are now unified so that there is more consistency across the many different file import paths. This should lead to better file imports for everyone.
• As an example, smart quote handling is now the same for all import paths.
• The stripping of unneeded Zero Width Joiner characters (U+200D) now works with all import paths, including XML.
• Instructions for Trying Out Improvements in File Import

User Interface Improvements

• Substantial work has been done to improve the Translated Line display.
• For a new installation, DBT offers an appropriate recommended template for more locations around the world, easing the set-up process.
• The Activation Process is now localizable. It is already available in French. Russian and some other languages are in progress.
• We have expanded the Hyperlink Import Screen and renamed it Import Options. These options affect all the import types, not just the Word importer.
• An important issue with UEB Math is control of spaces around signs of comparison. These spaces are placed for the lower grades and not placed for the upper grades. There is now a checkbox in the Import Options to control this behavior.
• There is a new Global Import Option checkbox that allows removing spaces around dashes. This is important in Australian formats. (The default is off.)
• Import options allow the user to specify the code page for a text file being imported. This may be most useful to users in Central Europe.
• Instructions for Trying Out these Improvements

Accessibility and JAWS Script Files

• We have revised the information layout and navigation of the Activation Process to make it much more accessible to blind users.
• There are further improvements in the embossing of help pages.
• Previously, when you pressed Control+H in a DBT document to turn highlighting on or off, JAWS did not say if it was now on or off. JAWS now reports the highlighting state, whether changed via Control+H or the Edit menu.
• Previously, when navigating through a document with highlighting on, JAWS would read two items, the item the cursor landed on and the item it left. That is no longer done. Now JAWS reads one item and tells you if it is being selected or unselected.
• If the JAWS version is 14 or above, the speaking is customized for DBT as it is when not selecting. For example, when selecting or unselecting a line in a braille document, JAWS speaks the print back-translation of that line. When selecting or unselecting a DBT code, JAWS speaks the code instead of the left bracket, the individual characters, and then right bracket. When selecting or unselecting a braille character, JAWS speaks it as a braille cell rather than as an ASCII character.
• Previously, when moving word by word in a braille document, JAWS would try to pronounce the word as ASCII; now it spells the word as braille cells. It also does that when selecting or unselecting a braille word.
• Previously, JAWS would beep to indicate a line that was skipped because of styles or codes. It no longer beeps. Instead, you can choose to have these line skips announced. The Alt+I toggle used to let you choose whether to have JAWS announce style changes. Now the Alt+I toggle allows for a choice of whether to announce style changes and whether to announce skipped lines (a total of four choices).
• When using a braille device, it is now possible to have JAWS remain silent when you move up or down line by line. Press Alt+U to tell JAWS not to use the translated line for moving up and down.
• There is better support for using commands from the keyboard of your braille device, such as the JAWS commands for BrailleNextLine and BraillePriorLine (which will braille the indicated line without speech, even if you have the Alt+U toggle set for speaking the translated line when using the computer keyboard).
• Instructions for Trying Out JAWS Improvements

Improvements to the Activation Process

• We have redesigned the activation wizard interface to interact more naturally with screen readers. There are major improvements to screen layout, information organization, screen navigation, and text voicing.
• The activation process has been localized for additional languages beyond English.
• The activation process responses have been fine-tuned to keep the user on the correct path and avoid some common operator errors.
• If an internet activation attempt cannot connect, the recovery process saves vital information so that the option to activate by email can succeed.
• Activation diagnostics now detect some common user problems like activation folders that lack write access and unusual cases like inconsistent license information. In general, diagnostics provide more information than before to help identify user problems.
• The process to register for user group emails is now current with Canadian anti-spam regulations.
• Instructions for Trying Out these Improvements

Braille Embossers

• DBT now supports integration of Tactile View graphics with the Index and Tiger lines of braille embossers.
• DBT now supports the Nippon Telesoft Gemini Super2 embosser.
• It now supports the Enabling Phoenix Gold embosser.
• DBT has improved support for the Enabling BraillePlace embosser.
• The issue of controlling "ET Speaks" from DBT is now resolved.
• DBT supports A3 portrait paper (49x41) for the Index-D V.4 embosser and the Index Braille Box.
• Certain Braillo models have a multiple copy feature (to facilitate display on the Braillo of the number of copies embossed). DBT now supports this feature.
• In Embosser Setup, the default embosser output has been changed from Port to Printer, which is now the more common case.
• Instructions for Trying Out Embosser Improvements

New Languages and Translation Improvements

• Duxbury is making strides to turn braille emphasis into the markup for inkprint emphasis in braille-to-print translation. This feature is described in the table below as "Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print." It means a student can write a paper in braille on a refreshable braille device, convert to inkprint in Duxbury, and export to Word with all the emphasis of the original braille showing up in the Word file.
• The new version of DBT presents the Biblical Original Language Studies table to meet the needs of blind biblical scholars.

Flag	Description
	Afrikaans: Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Albanian: Adding Arabic and Greek script in print-to-braille, Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Azeri: New table for braille-to-print translation. Table includes respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Biblical original language studies, This table combines Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Greek, and Syriac on a UEB table.
	Bosnian: Added Arabic script in print-to-braille. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Catalan: In print-to-braille, each upper case letter now gets its own dot 46 indicator. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Chuvash is a minority language in Russia. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Croatian: Corrections made for sequences of all caps, and strip emphasis codes in print-to-braille. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Dutch: Certain math symbols (such as plus), are now preceded by either a space or a dot 5, but not both. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Estonian: Strip emphasis codes in print-to-braille. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Updated Filipino and Tagalog based on user reports. Letter sign now supported. Some print-to-braille improvements, and extensive braille-to-print improvements.
	Finnish: Strip emphasis codes in print-to-braille. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	German: Fixes in braille-to-print translation to improve the handling of some braille contractions.
	Greek: Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Hebrew/Israeli: Now supports four scripts: Hebrew, Roman, Arabic, and Russian. We have added a simple math data entry system devised by ALEH (translation variation DBT code required).
	Indonesian: Added Arabic script in print-to-braille and respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	IPA: A brand new braille-to-print table. (Only comment changes in print-to-braille.)
	The Irish Gaelic print-to-braille table has been updated for initial implementation of the new Updated Irish Braille (UIB) Code, specifically to implement non-use of specific contractions when bridging the basic word boundaries in certain compound words.
	Italian: Fixed the handling of the period character.
	Japanese: Fixed braille-to-print for 12 strings, and 1 string for print-to-braille.
	Javanese: New Language! Uncontracted Indonesian plus uncontracted Arabic.
	Korean: Now handles one contraction that was not previously supported.
	Luxembourgish: Fixed handling of all caps and respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Macedonian: Added Arabic script in print-to-braille. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Malay: Adding Arabic script in print-to-braille, and respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Maltese: The braille translation tables have been updated per further revised specifications received from a Maltese source. Also respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Mongolian: Now uses UEB for punctuation and math; respecting emphasis in braille-to-print. Also handles Unicode characters U+04AF and U+20EA correctly.
	Montenegrin: Added Arabic script in print-to-braille. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Norwegian: Several contractions fixed in both print-to-braille and braille-to-print translators. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Polish: Fixed several characters, and respects emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Romanian: Fixed 2 characters in braille-to-print. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Russian: Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Serbian: Added Arabic script in print-to-braille. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Slovakian: Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print. Slovakian emphasis character is dots 46, not dots 456.
	Slovenian: Added Arabic script in print-to-braille. Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print.
	Shona: African language combining uncontracted UEB and uncontracted Arabic.
	Somali: Added Arabic script in print-to-braille.
	Turkish: Added Arabic script in print-to-braille.
	Turkmen: Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print. Fixed open double quotes on print-to-braille.
	Updated Urdu based on user reports (fixed 1 print-to-braille error and three braille-to-print errors).
	Uzbec: Respecting emphasis in braille-to-print. Fixed open double quotes in print-to-braille.
	Welsh: Updated to conform to Welsh Braille Code changes intended to make Welsh Braille Code more consistent with UEB.

• Instructions for Trying Out these Language Improvements

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DBT 11.2 SR4
2014-09-09

DBT 11.2 (SR4) fixes several minor bugs which are serious for a few users. We recommend all users update to 11.2 SR4 to prevent possible future frustration.

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DBT 11.2 SR3
2014-08-25 (2014-08-29)

This Service Release includes the following improvements, many of which are significant for some users:

DAISY/NISO Importer

• A flaw in the DAISY/NISO importer in DBT 11.2 SR2 causing the text of an imported document to be repeated has been fixed.

JAWS Scripts

• The JAWS script files have been updated to set refreshable braille to six dots whenever you are editing a braille document.

Word File Importer

• The importation of some space Unicode characters U+2000-200A has been improved. If a thin space (U+2009) is used between groups of digits, this becomes a dot 5 in UEB braille.
• The importation of some Arabic presentation characters has been improved.
• Alt Text for MathType objects is now imported in .docx files.
• DBT more reliably imports (single line) headers and footers from .docx files.
• When using Braille or Simbraille fonts, all spaces will be retained. This enables simple braille graphics to be produced in Word, which import faithfully in to DBT. See Simple Braille Graphics in the Help. for more information/)
• Whenever the .docx importer places text in a brlinline style, it will also mark that text to preserve all spacing. All spaces in the .docx file should be preserved in the DBT print file.
• DBT's .doc file importer now avoids cutting short Alt Text.
• Inserting [lng] codes (to revert to a document's base language) when importing .docx files now works correctly.
• Improvements have been made in the importing of matrices, determinants, systems of simultaneous equations, piecewise-defined functions, and the like via MathType.

BANA Template

• The Susan Christensen BANA templates supplied with DBT have been updated by her to improve support for the listed table format and direct braille entry. This update includes the BANA Braille 2014 template for Word and the three DBT templates that have BANA in their name

Unified English Braille (UEB) Literary

• The various English translators have been updated to treat a right single quote (U+2019) as an apostrophe when followed by a letter.
• The English/Unified print-to-braille table has been updated to correct the contraction usage in several unusual words, notably certain words commencing with be.
• The English/Unified print-to-braille translation table has been updated to correct the contraction of the word bein' in certain contexts.
• The English/Unified print-to-braille translation table has been updated to improve the passage/word choice logic for certain unusual sequences of fully capitalized words.

Unified English Braille (UEB) Mathematical and Technical

A great deal of work has been done (and is still on-going) in connection with "UEB Guidelines for Technical Material". A slightly revised 2014 version of this publication is due to be released soon, and will be available from http://www.iceb.org/ueb.html.

Use of MathType 6.9A, rather than earlier versions, improves DBT MathType imports of Word documents with math that was entered with Equation Editor instead of MathType. With earlier versions of MathType, the expressions would come into DBT as displayed math on a separate line even when they are meant to be embedded in the text. Note: MathType 6.9A is not out yet, it will be released sometime in September, 2014.

A trial copy of MathType 6.9A is included on the DBT 11.2 (SR3) CD. Please note that you will only be able to upgrade an existing 6.9 at no charge. You may also obtain it from here [Download 6.9a MathType upgrade for 6.9]

We would also like to formally and sincerely thank Wiris, developers of MathType for their continued co‑operation and support.

• The English/Unified print-to-braille translation table has been updated to support the code [big] for handling enlarged signs of enclosure, and also to support U+2257 (ring over equals).
• Work is on-going with Matrices, but there have been improvements in this area.
• The English/Unified translation tables have been updated to support several technical symbols.
• The English/Unified print-to-braille translation table has been updated to recognize codes [sqrtsN] and [sqrteN] as equivalent to [sqrts] and [sqrte] respectively, and to add support for certain uncommon Unicode symbols.
• The English/Unified print-to-braille translation table has been updated to correct the output for U+2197 (northeast arrow).

Nemeth Math.

• When translating Nemeth Code from braille to print, default numeric subscripts are now supported.
• When translating from print to Nemeth Code braille, a number at the baseline level that immediately follows a letter now gets a preceding dot 5 as desired.

Tabular Material

• Shift-Tab and Tab key navigation through tables with incomplete rows is working more smoothly.
• Minimum guide dots for tabular material (related columns) has been set to two.
• There is an adjustment to the number of header rows and header columns presumed for a table when no header column or row count is declared in the htbs code, as is generally the case for any newly-imported table. With the change, tables of related columns will continue to presume one header row only if there are at least two rows in the table. They will continue to presume one header column only if each row contains at least two columns. In all other cases, zero header rows/columns are assumed.

DBT Styles and Codes

• DBT will more reliably reload the initial style if it is added, removed, or redefined.
• There is a new code implemented in DBT: [svpalS:N]. It is intended to allow for variations to BANA Braille. See the codes reference for the details.
• A problem with the [mfce] code has been fixed. The problem prevented resetting behaviors related to runovers.

Embossers and Embossing

• •Interpoint 55 - DBT produces *.x55 files, and these files can be directed to the Interpoint 55 with the Wprint55 program.
• Cosmo embossing now uses a background thread. it is a convenience because it is possible to get back to editing sooner. However, it leaves no way to cancel embossing other than to exit DBT. Exiting DBT will cancel Cosmo embossing without warning.
• ViewPlus Tiger embossers are now capable of being switched between single and double-sided from within DBT.
• Viewplus Premier with Ink Connect is now supported.

Language Improvements

Language development is an on-going process, and the introduction of Unified English Braille in some countries, South Africa for example, has resulted in changes being made to languages used within the country.

Flag	Description
	Armenian now supporting the U+055B Armenian emphasis character. In ink-print, this is a single character at the end of a word.
	Azerbaijani: question mark and curling quotes have been fixed.
	Cantonese now handling English text mixed with Cantonese.
	Danish now handles lower quote marks.
	We now support the Dutch 2005 braille revision.
	Italian braille-to-print now produces the at-sign correctly
	DBT now supports the Taiwan variation for Mandarin braille.
	Turkish letter sign and uncontracted Turkish now function properly.
	South Africa. The Venda table has been updated. A stub braille-to-print table now uses UEB instead of older forms of English braille. Also Swati and Ndebele each have a single contraction fixed.

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DBT 11.2 SR2
2014-05-06 (2014-05-12)

This web Service Release includes the following improvements, a few of which are significant for some users:

Word 2007, 2010, 2013

• The importer for docx files has been improved to allow better recognition of character fonts. Superscript and subscripts are again properly recognized.
• Braille fonts and Courier (and Consolas) fonts are recognized.
• Bold, Italic, and Underline recognized when applied through a character style, unless the character style is mapped into a DBT style.
• The latest BANA Template for Word has been included.

Unified English Braille (UEB)

UEB will begin being formally taught in UK schools in September this year (2014). Users are therefore advised to ensure that upgrades have been applied to older versions.

• There have been a number of very minor changes made to the UEB tables in this release due to clarification of some rules by ICEB.
• A new template, named English (Unified) - UK formatting has been added to simplify the production of UEB braille while using current UK formatting conventions. The template parallels the existing English (British) - with capitals template in that it contains all of the same style names. Most styles are identically defined, but where necessary style definitions have been adapted for UEB. In particular, the <acronym> style has been set to null since no special treatment is required for acronyms in UEB.
• A new template, named English (Unified) - BANA has been added to simplify the production of UEB braille while using BANA formatting conventions. The template parallels the existing English (American Textbook DE) - BANA template in that it contains all of the same style names, thus enabling production using Word in the same manner as now set up for production of pre-UEB American braille following BANA guidelines. Most styles are identically defined, but where necessary style definitions have been adapted for UEB. Styles have also been added for script, Maori, Hawaiian and Portuguese.

Mathematics

We continue to improve DBT's math braille capabilities, and are grateful to those who have helped us in this regard.

• In MathType imports, we fixed some issues which caused extra blank lines.
• Handling of over/under math characters has been enhanced.
• Additional characters and a few more tabular structures are now supported.
• In LaTeX imports we have added support for \widetilde.
• For UEB math (not used in the United States), there is an issue about inserting optional spaces around signs of comparison for beginners. Please see the following link for details: https://www.duxburysystems.com/documentation/ueb_math_spacing.htm

Embossers and Embossing

Support for A5 and A5 landscape has been added to the Everest (V3 and V4)

Language Improvements

	Several tables for South African languages of that nation have been updated. They are: Nguni (Xhosa and Zulu), Ndebele, and Swati. Stub braille-to-print tables now use UEB instead of older forms of English braille.
	The Croatian translator now meets all standards for contracted and uncontracted braille.
	Danish: the braille-to-print translator has been fixed for four contractions, to match the print-to-braille Danish translator.
	Updated Filipino and Tagalog to deal with a list of words which did not contract correctly. These have been fixed.
	Added automatic hyphenation for Italian. Also respecting emphasis on braille-to-print.
	We have revised both translators for Japanese. We have also improved import of Japanese punctuation, and added a better screen display for Japanese transcribers.
	The Swahilli table has been modified to incorporate handling grade one Arabic script.
	We have corrected the character 04AF (y) in Tatar (a minority language in Russia).
	Turkish: two modified tables and 4 new Learning Level tables: DBT now supports contracted Turkish (and 4 levels of partial contraction).

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DBT 11.2 SR1
2014-02-26 (2014-02-26)

This web Service Release includes the following improvements, a few of which are significant for some users:

• The activation wizard has been updated to fix a problem when using a custom installation in a drive other than C.
• Embossing on all Braillo non-sideways embossers is improved. (That is all Braillo embosser models without sw or stitch and fold in their model names.)
• The JAWS script has been updated.
• Corrected the handling of the symbol right harpoon over left harpoon (used in Chemical equations) in file imports.
• Languages: Cantonese (Yue) print-to-braille has been significantly improved, and we have added a new braille-to print translator for Cantonese.

DBT 11.2
2014-01-28 (2014-01-29)

Major New Features

• DBT has always been at the forefront in implementing Unified English Braille. 11.2 contains further enhancements. DBT now has a UEB Learning Series for the UK (these are a series of translators that allow learning of contractions in graduated steps).
• You can now use variable width fonts on the print side of DBT. For many languages, this is a substantial improvement.
• Easier support for the new BANA 2011 Formats (used in the United States)
• SWIFT gives greater power and flexibility from Microsoft Word
• Nemeth Code, Braille to Print support added. (see below)
• Export from DBT to Microsoft Word via HTML.
• DBT has new software to handle installation and activation issues (see below)
• DBT now contains a Czech and a Chinese User Interface (see Global Menu, Internationalization).
• Formatted Braille Files with non-US encodings can now be imported by DBT (requires *.bff extension and the use of another encoding in the Global, Internationalization Menu).
• Smart Phone Integration with DBT.
• More languages and better support of existing languages (see very end of this page).
• Better Embosser support (see below)
• Math file importation and braille math translation have been improved substantially.
• Numerous Miscellaneous Changes (see below)

Installation, Activation, De-activation, and Network Installation

• DBT now contains an Activation Wizard to guide a user through the activation process.
• The Activation Wizard contains a diagnostic screen to help the user understand the activation status on a given computer.
• The Activation Wizard is very aware of subtle traps made by some versions of Microsoft: the Wizard knows about variations in UAC controls and only requests elevated credentials when they are truly needed.
• It is now possible to fix many activation problems without having to uninstall DBT (and then re-install DBT).
• The software to manage a network installation is available as a separate download. This program is helpful in situation where another product uses a similar activation system.
• The Network installation no longer requires writing text files.

Mathematics Issues

• Now students or teachers can six key in Nemeth and get print math to their printer for the print reader! (See next two items)
• DBT now has a translation table to translate Nemeth Code technical notation into DBT print math in a .dxp file.
• DBT now has an experimental option to save a .dxp file as LaTeX. This allows DBT print math, which may have come from braille-to-print translation of UEB or Nemeth Code, to be brought into a program, like Scientific Viewer, where a sighted teacher or colleague can view the math.
• In a matrix or determinant, DBT now uses the proper one space between columns instead of two.
• In Nemeth Code, bold items in technical notation, such as vectors and bold numbers, are now translated with the proper Nemeth Code typeform indicator.
• DBT now imports a kind of matrix from Scientific Notebook and other LaTeX files that it did not recognize before. (Previously a matrix in a LaTeX file had to use \begin{array} and \end{array} commands; now \begin{matrix} and \end{matrix} work as well.)
• A large number of problems with conversion from MathType that gave the message MathType Conversion Error: mtTRANSLATOR have been fixed.
• A large number of problems with conversion from MathType that gave the message MathType Conversion Error: mtNOT_FOUND have been fixed.
• A problem with converting very large expressions from MathType that gave the error message MathType Conversion Error: mtMEMORY has been fixed.
• Some problems with converting from MathType that gave extra text like 0.5em in the document have been fixed.
• In UEB print-to-braille translation, a hyphen within technical notation is now treated as a minus sign (dots 5, 36) unless that is overridden with a new [ammh] code.
• When importing a hard space from MathType or LaTeX, DBT now preserves it as a hard space. This is useful for handling numbers with separated groups of digits in UEB.
• Some symbols that weren't included in the MathType importer and would come up missing in the DBT file have been added. These include the expanding integral sign (a character for the integral sign which takes care of changing its size for typesetting needs).
• The handling of various commands and structures in the LaTeX importer has been improved. For example, the use of \[ and \] now causes the math item to be on a line of its own in DBT; the importing of LaTeX tables has been improved.

Nemeth Braille-to-Print

Duxbury DBT can now produce math printed output directly from braille. This works with three types of Duxbury DBT *.dxb braille files:

• Just Nemeth braille in DBT (everything is in math mode). Use the Math Notation (Nemeth 1972 math mode only) Template. With this template, writing math is easy, writing text is harder. See How to Write These Files (below).
• A mixture of literary braille text and math Nemeth braille. Use the English text with math Template that you create yourself. See Save the Math Template for Your Own Use (below).
• A UEB file, which can mix UEB literary text with UEB math. Use the English (Unified) Template. When BANA voted to adopt UEB in the United States, the vote included maintaining Nemeth Code for technical material. Thus UEB math has a more limited role in the US.

Embosser Support

• Support for the new Enabling Cyclone and Enabling Trident embossers.
• Support for the Viewplus EmBraille
• Support for new Braillo embossers: Braillo 300, Braillo 600SR, Braillo 650 6&F, and Braillo 650 SW
• Support for the new Cosmo Brailler from EBrailler.
• Improved support for the Index V4 embossers
• Support for A4 paper and extended A4 paper on several embossers
• Embosser form (paper) size name has been changed for some Index and ONCE Impacto embossers to more closely match choices offered by the manufacturer.

Miscellaneous Changes

• DBT can now import files whose names contain unusual characters.
• The JAWS scripts now verbalize the spaces and new lines on the braille side, verbalize DBT codes and style codes when you use backspace or delete, and also verbalize the context for replacing text.
• You can now use a Moon font with DBT on the braille side.
• In Verbose Mode, DBT shows the Unicode number of the current character at the cursor position on the status line.
• As always, many improvements have been made to make DBT a more stable environment.
• As always, many fixes have been done to improve the importation of Word and Open Office files.
• As always, math importation and math translation has improved as we work to handle challenging files.

DBT 11.2: Languages and Braille

Language Highlights

Better Font Support for most languages. For many languages of the world, the DBT print screen is readable, and editing is possible.

New User Interfaces: now supporting a Czech and a Chinese User interface.

New Languages: Bengali for Bangladesh (supporting the braille rules of Feb. 1996), Croatian contracted braille supported, Montenegrin, Tatar, and Udmurt. Contracted Turkish braille and Taiwan braille supported with a supplemental download from Duxbury Systems.

New Braille-to-print for existing languages: Amharic, Mandarin Chinese, Hausa, Somali, Swahili, and Yoruba.

We have added a new feature to the Serbian braille-to-print: while this usually uses the Cyrillic alphabet, the use of a variation code [vrn~ar] changes the braille-to-print translator to use the Roman alphabet. Another variation code [vrn~ac] reverts back to using the Cyrillic alphabet. These codes also work on other languages closely tied to Serbian.

Modest adjustments have been made in the handling of punctuation in the translators for the following European languages: Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgian, Maltese, Portuguese, Serbian, and Turkish.

Modest adjustments have been made in the handling of punctuation in the translators for Georgian and Mandarin Chinese as well.

Arabic and Hebrew are still not supported by the DBT editor. While the display may be improved, DBT is still not able to entirely figure out what is right-to-left, and what is left-to-right, so editing a line is absolutely not recommended until this issue is resolved.

Inspired by new braille entry devices, Duxbury Systems has made an effort to improve braille-to-print in almost every language. We welcome your suggestions on how we can further make progress in this area. The languages of India, plus Lao, Thai, Hebrew, Vietnamese, have been especially improved.

Language Details

Flag	Description
	DBT now has a braille-to-print translator for the Amharic.
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print Armenian translators have been improved.
	DBT now supports the Bangladesh braille rules of Feb. 1996 (Bengali language). DBT also supports the SutonnyMJ font, widely used in Bangladesh for writting Bengali.
	DBT now has a Chinese User Interface.
	DBT's import of Chinese script into Pinyin has also been substantially improved. DBT now has a braille-to-print translator for Mandarin Chinese (into Pinyin Romanization, not into Chinese script).
	DBT now supports the braille code of Taiwan through a supplemental download from Duxbury Systems.
	DBT has a modest improvement in the Cantonese braille translator.
	DBT now supports contracted Croatian print-to-braille and braille-to-print.
	DBT now has a Czech User Interface.
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print tables have also been improved.
	DBT has made improvements for the English translators used in the US, the United Kingdom, and other nations.
	The braille-to-print Dzongkha translator has been improved.
	The print-to-braille Esperanto translator has been fixed (for the question mark).
	The print-to-braille Ewe translator has been fixed.
	The braille-to-print Farsi translator has been substantially improved.
	The French translator has been improved, based on feedback from a user.
	The German translator has been improved, based on feedback from a user.
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print translator for Greek has been substantially improved.
	DBT now has a braille-to-print translator for the Hausa language.
	DBT now has support for the Hawaiian Language in the following templates: English/Unified (UEB), English/American (Standard Literary), and English/American (Textbook) through the use of the language tag [lng~haw]
	The braille-to-print translator for Hebrew has been substantially improved.
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print translator for Lao has been substantially improved. Third party software can improve the Lao braille output.
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print Norwegian translators have been improved.
	DBT now supports Montenegrin (supported the same as Serbian).
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print Polish translators have been improved.
	DBT now has improved the handling of punctuation in the Serbian translator. DBT now supports both the Cyrillic and the Roman alphabet in the braille-to-print translation.
	DBT now has a braille-to-print translator for the Somali language.
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print Swedish translators have been improved.
	DBT now has a braille-to-print translator for the Swahili language.
	DBT now supports Tatar (a minority language in Russia).
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print Thai translators have been improved. Third party software can improve the Thai braille output.
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print Tibetan translators have been improved.
	DBT now supports contracted Turkish (and 4 levels of partial contraction) through a supplemental download from Duxbury Systems.
	DBT now supports Udmurt (a minority language in Russia).
	The print-to-braille Ukrainian translator now supports automatic hyphenation.
	The braille-to-print translator for Urdu has been substantially improved.
	The braille-to-print translator for Vietnamese has been substantially improved.
	DBT now has a braille-to-print translator for the Yoruba language.

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DBT 11.1sr4
2012-04-23 (2012-04-24)

DBT 11.1 SR4 is primarily a maintenance release.
This fixes an issue that created problems while editing documents for a small number of users.
We now add support for A4 paper for the Index Basic-D V4 embosser.

We now support contracted braille for Croatian.

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DBT 11.1sr3
2011-12-23 (2011-12-23)

This service release addresses the following issues:

Languages and Braille:

	Afrikaans braille to print now supported (Afrikaans print to braille has been supported for years).
	Armenian (Eastern and Western) print-to-braille translations have been refined.
	Czech print to braille has fixes for some of the accented letters.
	Mathematics braille translation for British math is improved.
	English has improved handling of quotation marks.
	German print to braille has fixes for several contractions.
	Icelandic has better handling of emphasis.
	The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print translations for the languages of India have been improved and have been made more consistent.
	Punctuation and numbers are handled better in the Korean translator. The Korean braille to print translator has been substantially improved.
	Portuguese now supports hyphenation.
	Russian (and other Cyrillic languages) have revised logic for punctuation within numbers.
	Swedish now handles hard spaces.
	Extensive improvements in Filipino/Tagalog braille to print.
	Tigrinya (a major language of Ethiopia) is now supported.

Newly Added Embossers and Embosser Support:

• Index V4 Embossers
• Enabling Technology Phoenix Embosser
• Index Braille Box Embosser
• Braillo 300 Embosser
• Braillo 650 S&F Embosser
• Braillo graphics for Braillo 200 and Braillo 300 (Limited Support)

Other Notable Features and Fixes of SR3:

• New version of SWIFT works with 64-bit builds of MS Word 2010.
• Improved imports of Word docx format files, including proper handling for print page breaks.
• Insertion of GOODFEEL music files, a feature which had stopped working as of version 11.1, has been restored.
• Improvements to the new DBT 11.1 table handling functions including files that consist solely of very large tables.
• Greater overall program stability, especially in table processing.
• Expanded support of HTML exports: varieties of emphasis, additional characters, and support for tabular material.
• Support for a new file format created by MegaDots 2.5. This allows importing Braille Word files using the BANA/2010 template.

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DBT 11.1sr2 / 2011-5-03 (2011-5-04)

This is primarily a maintenance release, but addresses the following issues:

	The DBT table formatter now handles tabular input from Scientific Notebook and Infty Reader.
	Reliability improvements while switching between print and braille views of tabular material.
	Arabic braille-to-print now supports contracted braille.
	Mathematics braille translation improvements for British, American, and UEB math.
	Dzongkha table now includes the 2010 Code Revision.
	Tamil table has minor improvements.
	Armenian (Eastern and Western) print-to-braille translations have more improvements.
	JAWS scripts have stability and usability improvements: the translated line voice has been set to be a bit slower than the normal reading voice.
	Nippon Telesoft "Super Gemini" embosser is supported. This unit embosses braille and prints inkprint for many languages.
	The DBT Installer improves the migration of embosser definitions "for all users" from previous DBT versions for Windows operating systems with user account controls (Windows 8, Windows 10, or Windows 11).

DBT 11.1sr1 / 2011-3-2 (2011-3-4)

This is primarily a maintenance release, but addresses the following issues:

• Some systems where Authorization could fail has been resolved. It should now be possible for existing licensed users to trial 11.1 for 45 days.
• An obscure hyperlink issue affecting Word 2007 and 2010 imports has been resolved.
• Additional UK/BAUK braille math matters using Word and MathType have been resolved. UK/BAUK math users are advised to upgrade to this version. Please also note that all our testing has been done using the latest version 6.7a of MathType, and users are advised to upgrade where possible.
• A number of changes have also been made to some of the non-English language translation tables to resolve issues reported from users. May we take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for your feedback.
• Window-Eyes screen reader users should look out for an announcement from GW Micro regarding enhanced access to DBT 11.1 (SR1)
• Support for the yet to be released Cosmo braille embosser is included.
• A new File, Save As" choice has been added: HTML. You can open this HTML file in Microsoft Word. This new "Save As" choice is useful for exporting a file that does not use the Roman alphabet.

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DBT 11.1 / 2011-1-7 (2011-1-18)

Headline Features

• Imports MS Word 2007 & 2010; MS Excel 2007 & 2010 files
• Imports Open Office Writer & Open Office Calc files
• Now supporting many more languages for braille translation
• Table importer & Braille tabular material formatter
• Math support improved in many ways
• Now mix Nemeth with other non-English languages
• Braille Table switching inside of a document to combine multiple contracted braille languages in a single document.
• Improved functionality for DAISY & NIMAS and other XML document files.
• Most braille translators have a functioning back translator
• New Learning Table to assist & support approved braille teaching courses; including 2 for BANA, 3 for BAUK/UKAAF and 2 for UEB. NOW listed in DOCUMENT menu.
• Low cost print & braille solution -- TranSend SE: Software version of TranSend available for licensing from Enabling Technologies
• Translation tables are listed by region (to make the list manageable)
• Many translation tables updated (see TECHNICAL NOTES”)
• Duxbury DBT On-line documentation (English)
• Many embosser improvements and new additional embossers added, introducing the Cosmo Embosser
• JAWS support improved

New User Interface Language in DBT 11.1

Swedish user interface added

New Braille Translation Languages in DBT 11.1

Flag	Language	Script
	Albanian	Latin Script (1)
	Armenian, Eastern	Armenian (3)
	Assamese	Bengali Script (3)
	Awadhi	Devanagari Script (3)
	Azerbaijani	Latin and Cyrillic Script (1)
	Belarusian	Cyrillic (1)
	Bengali	Bengali Script (3)
	Bhojpuri	Devanagari Script (3)
	Bosnian	Latin, Cyrillic (1)
	Catalan	Latin Script (1)
	Cebuano	Latin Script (1)
	Chinese/Mandarin	Latin Script for Pinyin (1)
	Chinese/Yue (Cantonese Chinese)	Latin Script for Romanization (1)
	Chittagonian	Bengali Script (3)
	Czech	Latin (1)
	Dari	Arabic Script (2)
	Dzongkha	Tibetan Script (4)
	Estonian	Latin Script (1)
	Éwé	Latin Script (1)
	Filipino	Latin Script (1)
	Georgian	Georgian Script (3)
	Greek (Classical/American)	Greek Script (1)
	Gujurati	Gujarati Script (3)
	Haryanvi	Devanagari Script (3)
	Hiligaynon	Latin Script (1)
	Hindi	Devanagari Script (3)
	Hungarian	Latin Script (1)
	Icelandic	Latin Script (1)
	Iloko	Latin Script (1)
	IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet)	Latin Script (1)
	Japanese	Japanese Kana (3)
	Kannada	Kannada Script (3)
	Kirghiz	Cyrillic (1) and Arabic Script (2)
	Korean	Korean Script (Hangul) (3)
	Kurdish	Latin (1), Cyrillic (1) and Arabic Script (2)
	Kurukh	Devanagari Script (3)
	Lao	Lao Script (4)
	Luxembourgish	Latin Script (1)
	Macedonian	Latin Script (1)
	Magahi	Devanagari Script (3)
	Maithili	Devanagari Script (3)
	Malayalam	Devanagari Script (3)
	Maltese	Latin Script (1)
	Marathi	Devanagari Script (3)
	Meitei	Devanagari Script (3)
	Mongolian	Cyrillic (1) and Arabic Script (2)
	Myanmar	Myanmar Script (5)
	Nepali	Devanagari Script (3)
	Oriya	Oriya Script (4)
	Panjabi	Arabic Script (2)
	Pashto	Arabic Script (2)
	Sadri	Devanagari Script (3)
	Sanskrit	Devanagari Script (3)
	Santali	Devanagari and other Indic Scripts (3)
	Serbian	Cyrillic, Latin (1)
	Sindhi	Arabic (2) and Devanagari (3) Scripts
	Sinhala	Sinhala Script (4)
	Slovak	Latin Script (1)
	Slovenian	Latin, Cyrillic (1)
	Sylheti	Bengali Script (3)
	Tagalog	Latin Script (1)
	Tajik	Cyrillic (1) and Arabic Script (2)
	Tamil	Tamil Script (3)
	Telugu	Telegu Script (3)
	Thai	Thai Script (3)
	Tibetan	Tibetan Script (4)
	Turkmen	Latin Script (1)
	Urdu/India	Arabic Script (2)
	Urdu/Pakistan	Arabic Script (2)
	Uzbek	Cyrillic (1) and Arabic Script (2)

Script and Font Issues

Some fonts are fixed width, and some fonts are variable width. The print side of DBT only uses a select group of fixed width fonts that meet its technical criteria. In order to view some scripts in DBT files, we need to be careful about fonts and operating systems.

A few scripts (Burmese/Myanmar, Ethiopic, Khmer, Lao, Oriya, Sinhala, and Tibetan) are best viewed on a Windows 8, Windows 10, or Windows 11 machine.

Changed Braille Translation Tables in DBT 11.1

Flag	Language	Comments
	Amharic	Now supporting additional characters
	Arabic	contracted Print to Braille updated to reflect changed standards.
	Bulgarian	Updated to change some punctuation.
	English/BANA	The English/BANA tables have been updated (see below)
	English/British	The English/British tables have been updated (see below)
	English/UEB	The English/UEB tables have been updated (see below)
	Hebrew (Israel)	Arabic script is now accepted as input; plus other improvements
	Kazakhstan	Updated to implement Latin-letter indication, to remove support for English and French as "secondary languages", and change some punctuation.
	Latvian	Now supporting a few additional characters
	Lithuanian	Now supporting additional Cyrillic characters
	Malay	Some contraction rules have been updated.
	Romanian	Now supporting a few additional characters
	Russian	Updated to implement Latin-letter indication, to remove support for English and French as "secondary languages", and change some punctuation.
	Ukrainian	Updated to change some punctuation.

Embosser-Related Changes

Embosser Family	Comments
Braillo	Braillo serial number <esc>4 feature supported by DBT.
Ebrailler	Added the new Cosmo Electronic Brailler.
Enabling	Many changes to embosser definitions, usually to support TranSend SE
Enabling	Able to substitute <Esc> sequences, see table below.
Enabling	TranSend SE: Software version of TranSend available for licensing
Enabling	Better support for the find top of form feature
Index Version III	Resequence the Escape Sequences for improved formatting.
Index Version III	Z-fold feature now support by DBT.
Index 4x4	Better formatting for Index 4x4 for Interpoint and Single sided use.
PED-30	Handshaking issues resolved
Tiger	Many improvements to Support the Tiger Embossers, inkprint and braille placement have improved

Enabling Embossers: Models List

The Embossers in bold are new to DBT 11.1

• Enabling BraillePlace
• Enabling Braille Bookmaker
• Enabling Braille Express
• Enabling Braille Express-100 (new)
• Enabling Braille Express-150 (new)
• Enabling E.T.
• Enabling Juliet Classic
• Enabling Juliet Pro
• Enabling Juliet Pro 60
• Enabling Marathon
• Enabling PED-30
• Enabling Romeo 20/40
• Enabling Romeo 25
• Enabling Romeo Attache
• Enabling Romeo Attache, 2nd Edition (new)
• Enabling Romeo Attache Pro (new)
• Enabling Romeo Attache Pro, 2nd Edition (new)
• Enabling Romeo Pro 50
• Enabling Romeo Pro LE Narrow
• Enabling Romeo PRO LE (24 cell wide Label Edition)
• Enabling Romeo Pro LE Wide (new)
• Enabling Thomas
• Enabling Thomas Pro (new)
• Enabling TranSend LT
• Enabling TranSend LT (Large Print)

File Import

• Office 2007
• Office 2010
• Open Office documents
• Major spacing problems in Word 2007 imports have been resolved.
• The Microsoft Word importer can handle many more script systems than previous versions of DBT. DBT 10.7 handled 7 script systems (Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew Cyrillic, Amharic, and Khmer). DBT 11.1 adds 20 additional script systems. To get this material into DBT, you must import from a file that is using a Unicode font.
• The Importer now handles the Registered, Copyright, and Trade Mark signs to import each of these as a single character.
• The Global, Word Importer pane has a radio button to select the language of preference for Han (Chinese) characters. You can select Mandarin, Yue (Cantonese), Japanese, or Korean.
• The scrub table aposq.sbt may be removed or renamed to disable "smart quote" changes made automatically during XML imports. This includes SGML/XML, DAISY/NISO, OpenOffice, and Office 2007 imports. Note that, if instead of removing aposq.sbt, you edit the file and cause it to be invalid, you will not get any error or warning message. In this case, the importer will simply skip the processing in this file just as if the file had been removed or renamed.

Math Issues

• Improvements in importing with MathType 6.5 and MathType 6.6
• Improvements in importing with MathType 6.7.
• Math Type imports from Word 2007/Word 2010
• Spatial layout for Matrices
• Many improvements for math importing and translation; especially for British Mathematics
• Many improvements for fractions, including mixed numbers, in-line fractions, and diagonal fractions
• Better handling of the $$ start and end math markup. This should improve the handling of files from Infty Reader.

JAWS Issues

• DBT's automated JAWS script installer has been corrected, such that it will recognize JAWS version 10.0 and beyond.
• When you exit the menus and no document is open, now JAWS gives the Duxbury message instead of being silent.
• When you press the current character keystroke two or three times quickly, now you get the default JAWS behavior, which gives more information about the character.

User Interface

• There is a new menu item Translate Help on the Help Menu that lets you read the DBT 11.1 documentation in over 40 languages using Google Translate.
• When you import a file into DBT or create a new document, you need to select a document Template. These Templates have been divided into geographic regions to make this list manageable. As before, there is an option to hide templates. Be aware that once you change regions, all the hidden template become unhidden.
• On the Document Menu, you can select a translation table. These translation tables have been divided into geographic regions to make this list manageable.
• The Global, Word Importer pane has a radio button to select the language of preference for Han characters. You can select Mandarin, Yue (Cantonese), Japanese, and Korean.
• The Printer... button is now shown in the Global Printer Setup and Document Printer Setup dialogs, even when running in Windows 8, Windows 10, or Windows 11.
• To handle the Index Z-fold feature, the Braillo serial id embossing feature and the Enabling find Top of Form feature, the embosser interface has some additional checkboxes.
• Several prompts or messages that previously did not display correctly have been fixed.

English/American (Textbook)

• updated to fix a problem whereby single lowercase bold letters, when bold is distinguished from italics, could be given two letter signs instead of just one.

English/British

• the table has been revised so that implementation of emphasis rules (for italics, bold and underlining) in English literary text is now carried out exclusively at the translation table level. The primary reason for this change is to fix problems that could be caused by the presence of certain commands, e.g. the [ii] (grade 1 with indicator) command, which formerly could interrupt recognition of a longer emphasized passage, causing it to be treated as individual emphasized words.
• updated to support additional precomposed accented letters from Unicode page U+01xx.
• updated so that Letter signs should be used on isolated letters and letter-strings followed immediately by digits in grade 1 as well as grade 2.
• updated so that both quotes would be removed when a quoted single letter is indicated by a letter sign instead of quotes.
• updated so that dot 4 should be placed before before dollar and pound-sterling signs followed by full stop
• updated so that certain abbreviations that resemble Roman numerals will not be so treated when following numeric values.
• updated so that "St" followed by full stop should not be contracted.
• updated so that spaced hyphen should be consistently treated as a dash.
• updated to that isolated letters preceding the oblique stroke (slash) should be given a letter sign.
• updated to that italics passage terminators could be lost when implied by certain linear style ending references

English/Unified (UEB)

• updated to support y with acute accent
• support vowels with macrons
• refine the implementation of the "standing-alone" rule (e.g. to disallow an asterisk as permitted right-hand punctuation for purposes of that rule).
• updated to support several additional extended words containing shortforms that were recently added to the official list.
• updated to add support for four Old/Middle English letters (yogh, thorn, eth and wynn [wen]).
• Translation commands [ucs] ... [uce] have been added to the command set. These commands allow a user to override the normal treatment of capital letters, in particular to mark a capital "passage" that contains internal formatting commands that would otherwise cause the passage to be treated as two or more separate passages.

Codes and Special Characters

• [rfs] and [rfe] codes are now cut, copied, and deleted as a pair, as [tls] and [tle] have been right along.
• It is now possible to edit code sequences up to 1000 characters for style start and style end definitions.
• DBT will now handle processing instructions of the form <?dbt $dbtcode`?>.
• A problem was corrected with RNIB-style reference-page-number breaks when the "use runover site" option (per the fourth parameter to a prior [svles...] command) was in effect. The subsequent text was being placed on the same line as the reference page indication; it is now placed on the next line as it should be, and the appropriate margin (left or runover) is observed.
• A problem with double centering (resulting in a net incorrect offset) when a reference-page-number line occurred within a centered heading has been corrected.
• The software has been updated so that [wb-cb] ... [wb] codes surround the text within the <compinline> style (as was already the case with the <compdisplay> style). This is to assure that the hyphen (continuation indicator) appropriate to computerese is used in cases where a URL is too long for a line. Likewise in all templates where those codes were used in <compdisplay> but not in <compinline>, they are now used in the latter style as well. Further, the code [svcbh~"] was added to the <initial> style of the templates for English/British and UEB, so that dot 5 is used for the continuation indicator in computerese.
• Optional hyphens in text boxes within Word will no longer cause a corrupted DBT document after the completion of the import. The same fix presumably fixes corruption problems with optional hyphens in document headers, footers, footnotes, and endnotes.
• The Change Case feature has been updated: it has been revised to skip over codes when analyzing and modifying text. Earlier it capitalized more or fewer letters near the end of the selection than it should have; in some very rare cases, it might have locked up entirely. Also, for long selections, Change Case has been taking far too long to complete. These problems have both been corrected.

Learning Series

If you select one of the translation tables (listed below in parenthesis), you will be offered these Learning Series. The Learning Series is an new item on the Document Menu. If it is greyed out, you have not selected the proper Translation Table.

• NLS Instruction Manual for Braille Transcribers (BANA Literary)
• TSBVI (BANA Literary)
• Braille in Easy Step Book (British Braille)
• Fingerprint (British Braille)
• Take Off Series (British Braille; explained below)
• New Zealand STAR (English Unified)
• South African Syllabus (English Unified)

Take Off Series

Produced in consultation with the VIEW Children's Braille Committee, this scheme aims to develop a child's phonic skills, and knowledge of braille contractions and wordsigns. It also encourages enjoyment of reading and writing. The course takes the learner to the end of grade 2 braille.

Each series is identified by the colour of the cover and tactile illustrations. A print version of the braille text appears on facing pages throughout to encourage shared reading at home and school.

Each booklet contains a practice page and story; booklets in series 1 to 10 also include a “fun page” of activities to encourage braille writing.

Take Off pack A (series 1 to 6) (TC21192) comprises 36 booklets (six in each series) and can be used with the following reading courses:

• Abi books 1 to 40
• Read On series 1 to 6
• Take Off series 1 to 3 can be used with Get Going.

Take Off pack B (series 7 to 12) (TC21193) comprises 26 booklets (five in series 7 to 8 and four in series 9 to 12) and can be used with the following reading courses:

• Read On series 7 to 12.

You can also purchase Take Off series 1 to 12 as individual series sets (TC21194-205).

The Take Off teachers' handbook (TC21206P/B/CD) contains the complete text of the braille booklets as well as notes on the braille signs being taught, notes on encouraging good reading technique and a list of additional resources.

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DBT 10.7 sr1 / 2009-3-18 (2009-6-5)

Here is a list of what's new since DBT 10.7:

Win 7	DBT works on Windows 7 with the same issues DBT experiences with Vista.
	Swedish encoding of braille documents has been added.
	French fonts have been renamed to be compatible with DBT’s Word importer. Versions of the fonts shipped with DBT 10.7 were not being recognized for purposes of reading in braille text marked up to avoid “double translation”.
	A new French encoding for braille documents, “French Chiffres”, has been added. The standard “French” braille encoding for braille documents has been modified to match updated standards; the older encoding is now called “French 6 points”. (These changes are in display.cpt.)
	Revised French documentation, and revised French DBT and Word templates. These changes should affect only those who use adaptations to DBT developed at AVH for use in producing French braille.
Translators	Translation improvements have been made to these tables:
	English/American (literary and textbook templates) -- Both American tables have been updated to conform to new rules regarding partially-emphasized words, and for improved handling of Greek letters within English context. A new "variation" code has been added to permit entering fractions more conveniently using a simple slash, e.g. 1/2 for one-half, when appropriate (as in cookbooks).
	Arabic -- Additional Unicode characters are now supported, as well as the standard "Arabic" page.
	Bulgarian -- (Minor update only.)
	Modern Greek -- Additional Unicode characters, as well as the standard basic "Greek" page, are now supported. The Nemeth Code is now supported for mathematics.
	English/British -- Corrections and improvements were made to the logic for inserting clarifying parentheses into algebraic fractions. The handling of mixed numbers imported from LaTeX documents was corrected. Other corrections affected the handling of certain apostrophe-letter endings in grade 1, embedded German, and other miscellaneous situations.
	English/Unified -- These tables were extensively updated to conform more closely to the latest transcriber rules for capitalization, shortform usage, lower-sign contraction usage, and other miscellaneous matters. A new pair of commands, [ucs] ... [uce], have been provided to allow manual control of capital passage extent when desired.
	French/Unified -- The treatment of apostrophe (') has been corrected in [cz;f] mode. Certain capital passage and double-sign issues have also been addressed.
	Croatian -- (Internal update only -- no functional change.)
	Kazakh -- Arabic script (as well as Cyrillic script) is now accepted as input.
	Malay -- The logic for contraction usage has been extensively updated.
	Norwegian -- The logic for contraction usage has been improved, and the treatment of comma within numbers corrected. Support for contracted English embedded within Norwegian has been removed, as such text is normally uncontracted.
	Russian -- Arabic script (as well as Cyrillic script) is now accepted as input.
	Ukrainian -- Arabic script (as well as Cyrillic script) is now accepted as input.
Embossers	Improvements have been made for these embossers:
Tiger	All supported Tiger models: DBT has been updated to meet the requirements of the latest drivers from ViewPlus. (However, we are not adding to DBT 10.7 SR1 support for any Tiger embosser models not supported by DBT 10.7.)
Tiger	Tiger Pro Ink: ink placement has been corrected; ink placement, font choice and font size can also be adjusted, though this presently requires registry “tinkering”.
VP Duo	VersaPoint Duo: graphics support improved.
PED-30	PED-30 plate embossers: more “handshaking” options have been added, and the inclusion of a blank “last side” when there are an odd number of sides to emboss has been suppressed, saving the operator loading a plate at the end of a job only to see it come through without any embossing.
Thiel	Thiel Beta X-3: additional paper sizes are now supported.
Gemini	A defect in interline print output on Gemini embossers has been corrected.
Import	DBT’s Word importer will support use of the Math12 font. This change is in wrduni.txt, along with myriad other changes geared toward future support of new languages, as in chitab.txt.

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DBT 10.7 / 2008-5-20 (2008-06-23)

Here is a list of what's new since DBT 10.6 SR4:

Direct imports of math in Word documents with MathType 5 or 6 installed

DBT's Word importer supports importation of mathematical expressions created with either MathType or Equation Editor. It does *not* support math typed directly into the text. That will still come in as it always has.

The importer requires that either MathType 6 or MathType 5 be installed and activated. They can be installed anywhere (i.e. they do not need to be installed within the DBT folder). MathType is a powerful interactive tool for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents. DBT's importing of MathType expression works only with Microsoft Word files.

Updated BANA translation

English/American: The BANA 2007 updates have been implemented), notably including the two-cell slash, the use of the termination sign instead of hyphen to signal the end of the effect of the double capital sign, and other updated rules and added symbols. A control ("[big]") was added to provide for enlarged enclosure symbols in Nemeth Code.

Updated BAUK translation

A facility has been added to enable "locking" of the grade of translation, primarily to facilitate production of texts entirely in grade 1 despite the presence of [g2] in the text or within styles. See LOCK Grade 1 or 2 for more details.

Updated UEB (Unified English Braille) Translation

English/UEB: Transcription rule decisions of the UEB Committee through January 2008 have been implemented, including those affecting the treatment of shortform words and lower signs, and the extent of grade 1 word mode when initiated by a number. The braille-to-print UEB tables have been revised to construct appropriate print (.dxp) file encoding for most math structures and certain symbols, thereby replacing some of the "double-brace" notation typically used for indicators, etc. when translating from braille to print.

NEW Pharma EBU/EC translation and template - EBU Pharma

At the time of writing (March 2008) the European Braille Union (EBU) have been discussing a proposed common/standard Pharmaceutical Braille code with European Braille Authorities to be used exclusively on medicinal packaging throughout Europe.

For more up to date information concerning the production of Pharma Braille labels, etc., you may wish to contact our U.K. distributor http://www.techno-vision.co.uk.

NEW Esperanto translation and template.

"Esperanto is a language, but not of any country or ethnic group: it is a neutral, international language." For more details about the Esperanto language please see https://esperanto.net/en/.

Updated French translation

French/Unified: The print-to-braille tables have been updated to conform more closely to the new French mathematics code. The braille-to-print tables have been updated to include common computer and currency symbols.

Support added for Enabling Technologies new Romeo Pro 50LE

At the time of writing (March 2008) Enabling Technologies Inc were in the process of manufacturing a dedicated labelling embosser. Limited to 24 cells maximum width, the output is approximately 40% faster than a standard Romeo Pro.

DBT 10.7 includes additional form depths for this embosser from 0.5 inches to 4 inches in depth in increments of 0.25 of an inch.

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10.6 sr4 / 2007-7-19 (2007-11-30)

What's new in SR4

• The addition of a "Save As" file type to allow saving files for use with DBT 10.5 and earlier (Please note that DBT 10.5 and earlier will still ignore codes which they don't recognize).
• A fix for a "stalling" problem which happens in some network environments.
• A fix for a crashing problem when importing some HTML files, particularly those exported from Excel.
• An updated SWIFT to eliminate "Error 13" showing up with some installations of Word.

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What was new in SR2 + SR3

These were not generally released.

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10.6 sr1 / 2007-2-21 (2007-2-28)

Featured Improvements

• DBT can now be installed in Windows Vista. (But note that slsService is not Vista-compatible, so if activation is to be shared among many computers, the computer holding the activation must not be running Vista. Other computers certainly can.)
• Daisy/NIMAS imports have been improved and made more flexible. When appropriate, the Daisy-specific document template is automatically selected, avoiding a common mistake made in importing these documents.

Editing Improvements

• DBT's responsiveness while editing a document has been improved in some unusual environments where sluggishness had been reported.
• Applying a linear style will no longer remove a [fte~i] or similar code at the end of a line.
• When deleting a code with a matching code that includes a number or a parameter (e.g. deleting [ptye] after [ptys2]), DBT now correctly deletes the entire matching code.
• The list of open documents in the View menu has been improved.
• "Replace all" now works correctly when certain special characters such as bullets are replaced.
• When attempting to insert a Braille document into a print document or vice versa, DBT will now refuse to do so, rather than just display an error and proceed with the insert.
• Rendering of [gd] code in coded view is corrected.
• The [caplv], [ftlv], and [xcs] codes have been added to the code list (F5 list). These codes are honored by DBT 10.6, but could not be entered via the code list.
• A bug has been fixed that caused a lock-up when generating a table of contents in some circumstances.

Translation and Formatting Improvements

• Support has been added for Amharic, Khmer, and Ukrainian translation.
• The Farsi table has been updated so that two variant letter forms are treated the same as the corresponding regular Arabic letter forms, i.e. U+06a9 Arabic letter keheh = variant of U+0643 Arabic letter kaf Arabic letter farsi yeh = variant of U+064a Arabic letter yeh
• Translation fixes have been made in the Polish tables.
• The Lithuanian braille-to-print table has been updated to process Lithuanian text properly as such, including the special Lithuanian letters. (Formerly it was a placeholder suitable only for the Latin-1 letters and embedded English.)
• The English/Unified print-to-braille table has been updated in order to correct an infinite loop that would occur when [vrn~ida] (informal treatment of hyphen, as requested in Australia) was in effect and a capitalized passage was encountered that in fact also contained some digits.
• The "new" English/British print-to-braille translation table has been updated so that:
  1. When suppressing capitals ([caplv1] in effect), code [ii] (as in the "acronym" style) will not cause an unwanted extra letter sign when applied to an acronym that coincidentally is a Roman numeral, e.g. CD or VI.
  2. Dots 456, 34 instead of just 34 is used for all explicit fractions in math as well as the literary oblique stroke.
• The French/Quebec table has been updated to implement [fts...] ... [fte...] emphasis tagging in the same manner as the "pre-Unified" French tables.
• A rare problem with the translation process, which affected American translations only, has been corrected. The problem could cause word capitalization to be handled incorrectly in some cases within the ordinary text following the first reference to a computer notation style (such as compinline or compdisplay).
• DBT will no longer introduce spurious skipped lines within line-numbered BodyText.
• Several running header problems have been fixed, notably that a [tld] (discontinue running head) on the same page as [tls] ... [tle] (set running head) would cause a lockup (endless internal loop) in DBT when "anticipatory headers" mode is in effect (as for British practice).
• The formatter has been improved to guard against lockups even when due to yet-undiscovered problems.

Documentation Improvements

• Some helpful tips for Vista users have been added to the online help.
• Indexing of online help has been improved.
• Several new screen shots have been added to "The Menus".
• "Table and Style Example" has been added to "Working with Word", illustrating basic table handling.
• French documentation ("Manuel d'utilisation DBT 10.6") has been updated to reflect use of DBT 10.6.
• The [xcs] code is documented in Codes Quick Reference. (The code is not new, but it was undocumented in DBT 10.6.)

GOODFEEL Integration Improvements

• Stability and performance when GOODFEEL is used to embed transcribed music in a document has been improved.

Embosser Support Improvements

• The Modify Embosser and Remove buttons in DBT's Global Embosser Setup dialog will be disabled when it appears that a user will be unable to save the resulting change. This applies to any user not running "As Administrator" in Vista.
• The Embosser Setup configuration editing dialog (the dialog with General, Device Settings, and Advanced tabs) will now lock a limited user, or anybody not running "As Administrator" in Vista, into saving a configuration "For the current user only".
• Global Embosser Setup will now give an error message after any failure to save changes to embosser definitions.
• For the Braillo 200/400 series, DBT now positively resets the "page adjust" offset to zero in case it has been externally set to some other value.
• Support for the ViewPlus Emprint has been added.
• A braille spacing problem when interline print is included in output to Tiger embossers has been fixed.
• Control-Z has been added to the end of output for Index embossers and others that require it.
• Interpoint alignment on narrow paper has been improved for Index embossers.
• Multi-Copy output to pre-Model 3 Index embossers has been corrected.
• New keywords PortCloseSyncCount, PortCloseSyncByte, and PortCloseSyncPrompt are supported in emb.elt and myemb.elt. These are documented in emb.elt. They should not generally be necessary, except, in rare cases, when data is lost at the end of any embossing job, and the problem is not solvable using other handshaking adjustments. PortCloseSyncPrompt has in fact been added for the PED-30, which will otherwise lose part of the last page of data.
• If the user edits myemb.elt and introduces a syntax error, DBT will now report the error instead of just stopping at startup.
• Sequences in the form <Ctrl-X> within embosser configuration custom job setup strings will now work.
• Duxbury's embosser "drivers" now support a form offset. This is an advanced configuration feature that has been put to use on a PED-30 with plates that are less than the maximum width.
• The Index embosser driver files included with DBT have been updated. This provides for better support for newer Index models and Index embossers connected via a USB cable.
• Changes to paper size, margins, etc. made in Global, Embosser settings are now simpler to specify.
• Output to an Interpoint 55 embosser is working again, correcting a bug introduced in the original DBT 10.6.
• It is now possible to specify a VSHIFT value for an Interpoint 55 embosser in the Device Settings tab. Possible values are Auto-Rotate, 0, 1, 2, and 3.
• Some paper size corrections have been made in emb.elt.

Improvements for Microsoft Word

• The updated "Francais - 2006.dxt" is included in DBT distributions.
• Word imports are more robust when encountering paragraph numbering information in an unrecognized format.
• Start value overrides in auto-numbered documents are handled correctly again.
• Text boxes now import from Word 2003 documents.
• SWIFT has been updated to report an error with some instructions if the user attempts to use it to open an OpenXML document in DBT.

Improvements for Scientific Notebook

• Support for \lnot (logical not) and \implies has been added.
• Problems with spurious spaces after some function names were fixed.
• Problems with sinh and real were fixed
• Some problems with fraction levels were fixed.

JAWS Script Improvements

• Laptop keyboard layout designation for keystrokes Alt+0 and Alt+P were removed; Laptop keyboard layout designation for keystrokes JawsKey+U, JawsKey+I, etc. were added.
• When switching DBT back into focus in a braille document window, the user no longer gets an extra keyboard echo (QWERTY echo plus braille character echo).
• When the user presses Alt+F3 the announcement of coded view or formatted view is no longer out of phase with JAWS versions 7 and up.

Braille-Build Improvements

• Braille-Build has been modified to introduce a visible space character in the SimBraille font (U+00B7)
• Braille-Build will honor a custom font name you specify.
• Dot diameter adjustments are honored again, correcting a bug introduced in an earlier version.
• The fonts have been updated to version 1.10.
• Generated fonts are compatible with MacOS X.

Miscellaneous Improvements

• Cancel button in Global Printer Setup and Document Printer Setup now works without side effects.
• DBT will now be more fully compatible with the LaserJet 6P and other new and full-featured printers.
• The prompt to remove temporary files, which typically followed after appearance of the Autosave Recovery Wizard, has been removed.
• SGML will now import when the file type was selected by the user rather than autodetected.
• "Global, Other Importer" has been removed. This feature has not been in common use for many years.
• User-defined import filters, broken in the original DBT 10.6, are working again.
• DBT's installer now traps processor exceptions in the custom action code and logs any failure to the normal log file. To get at the information, one must run the installer with sufficient logging enabled: e.g. /L*v <logfilename> on the command line.
• A broader range of characters (specifically, numeric entity references) will be recognized by the HTML/SGML importer.

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DBT Version 10.6 / 2006-7-27 (2006-8-15)

New Features in DBT 10.6

• NEW Undo and Redo features.
• NEW Autosave feature.
• NEW Change Case feature has been added, and is accessible using Shift-F3.
• NEW A margin bell can be enabled for braille entry.
• Enhanced JAWS scripts add support for braille document input and review.
• NEW Templates included for every supported language.
• NEW enhanced installation and activation process.
• Improved Support for custom embosser definitions.
• DBT can now optionally read publishers page numbers.
• IMPROVED Enhanced [folds] code supports more sophisticated fold lines.
• NEW Customizeable behavior of Alt-3 ("CBC"), CTRL-Enter ("New page"), and Enter
• NEW vertical page centering.
• IMPROVED Braille-Build can build fonts with California spacing, Marburg spacing for EU signmakers, Marburg Medium spacing for the EU Pharmaceutical requirements, and customizeable for thermal paper, thermoform and other processes.
• NEW Graphics supported for the Romeo Attache.
• NEW A /template command line option allows desired template to be specified for imported files.
• NEW /brf and /prf command line options make it possible to use DBT as a file-to-file translation tool.
• ... more!

Updated Translations

The following language translation tables have been added or substantially updated:

• American English
• The support for NLS' "Instruction Manual for Braille Transcribers" partially-contracted braille series has been revised to reflect the fourth edition.
• British English
  • The Fingerprint series has been added.
  • Support for the new rules has been added
• Croatian
• Farsi
• French (unified)
• German (contracted)
• Hausa
• Igbo
• Indonesian
• Irish Gaelic
• Kazakh
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Somali
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Unified English (UEB)
• Welsh
  • Support for new rules
  • Support for math and computer notation within Welsh
• Yoruba

(Some of these have been included in service packs for DBT 10.5)

Additional Interfaces

• Korean
• Polish
• Russian
• Portugal Portuguese (as well as Brazilian Portuguese)
• Documentation developed at AVH for French users is now included also.

Still More Improvements

• New BANA templates have been introduced. The Word template file is now called BANA Braille 2006. When importing to DBT, two templates are available; one is specifically for Nemeth documents.
• IMPROVED Handling of virtually all embossers. Improvements in the following models: ATC Dot and Print, Brailletec Btec-100, Brailletec PUMA, Braillo (270, 200, 400, 440), Braillo 440 SW (much improved), Enabling embossers (all modern models), Freedom Scientific VersaPoint, Freedom Scientific VersaPoint Duo, Index (all modern models), Index 4x4 (much improved), Interpoint Elekul 55, Nippon Telesoft BMP, Nippon Telesoft Gemini, Pulse Data Paragon, Thiel Beta X3, Triformations TED-600, and Viewplus (all modern models).
• IMPROVED Virtually all aspects of DBT have been overhauled. The list of changes and improvements go on for page after page. We appologize for editing this list down to make it manageable. Please download a demo and have a look at all the changes yourself..
• IMPROVED Word and WordPerfect imports.
• IMPROVED French template translation table settings.
• Operation of Workstations that Share an Activation.
• ELIMINATED most causes of corrupted documents.
• NEW Undo when typing over selected text.
• NEW Undoing file inserts has been fixed.
• NEW & IMPROVED Find and Replace dialogs are more flexible, search for or replace styles, use Control-< to enter the style as a.
• IMPROVED Redesigned and uniform Emboss and Print.
• NEW Hard spaces can now be entered when searching and replacing.

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10.5 sr2 / 2005-8-18 (2005-9-1)

Corrects problems with and enhances DBT 10.5

• Improves support for new British Braille rules, including math and computer notation
• Adds translation support for
  • Farsi,
  • contracted German,
  • Hausa,
  • Igbo,
  • Indonesian,
  • Lithuanian,
  • Somali and
  • Yoruba
• Updates the LOC/NLS "Instruction Manual for Braille Transcribers" partial-contraction series
• Updates the translation tables for numerous languages.
• Provides Braille-Build (font builder) support for Marburg fonts and correctly spaced California braille.
• Handles acute accents in Scientific Notebook files.
• Provides additional French documentation.
• Updates the JAWS macros, and supports installation of macros to JAWS 6.0.
• Adds a utility (slsclock.exe) to help manage network installations with clock synchronization problems.

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10.5 sr1 / 2004-8-23 (2004-12-1)

Corrects problems with and enhances DBT 10.5

• Improved embosser support
• Support for new British Braille rules, including the Fingerprint Series.
• An Improved DBT template for BANA documents.
• Improved JAWS macros.

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10.5 / 2004-8-23 (2004-9-2)

Min Sys Req: Windows 98 or higher, 50 MB free hard drive space

Enhanced Installation:

• Install for Current or All users.
• Install JAWS Scripts/Macros.
• Install SWIFT.
• Install Word Braille Template.

User Interface:

• Cursor Locator - Pressing the shift key will cause an array of concentric circles to show the position of the cursor.
• Cursor Location retained on translation - When you translate a document into braille, your cursor is now positioned at the beginning of the word in the braille file
• JAWS Scripts - Scripts have been included as an option for JAWS Screen Reader users.
• All dialogs have been re-designed to conform the Windows standards. Among other things, this means that users of High Contrast Accessibility Settings can work to those.
• Unicode - Many Unicode characters can now be displayed in DBT's editor.
• Improved Coded View - When viewing Codes, they appear very similar to XML/HTML tags.
• Coded view is now possible when viewing braille on screen.
• Modify Codes & Styles in Coded View - You may now highlight any code or Style you wish to edit, and press Ctrl + [ or Ctrl + < to edit it.
• Search & Replace - You can now search for a Style and/or Code in addition to text, and replace it. This can be done on an all or selective basis.
• Search & Replace functions work exclusively in a highlighted range of text.
• Both Search & Replace functions will prompt user to check rest of document if starting a mid-point in the document, or a highlighted range.
• Copy & Paste - This facility works better with other applications.
• File Name Handling - When importing files, DBT now suggests the default name of the imported file. For example, myfile.doc will become myfile.dxp in text, and myfile.dxb in braille. You may override the name if you wish.
• Custom icons for .dxp, .dxb and .brf files.

Updates:

• A "Check for Updates" option as been added to the Help menu. Provided you have Internet access, this will access the Duxbury Systems web site, and check to see if you are eligible for any updates.

Embossing:

• Emboss (Help Topic) - As well as a "Print" Help topic button, there is now an "Emboss" Help Topic button which will output any selected Help Topic to your selected default braille embosser.
• Emboss selected pages by Braille Page Number or Page Sequence Number. You can also highlight a contiguous selection of text and emboss only the selection.
• "Sticky Document Information " - Information about how a document is set up, such as Page and Line length, and embosser, is now stored with each file.
• Support has been added for many more makes and models of braille embosser.
• Multiple embossers and embosser setups can be installed and selected as required.
• Enhanced Embosser Setup - Set up your embosser and let DBT control it.
• Index Printers - USB & Network Support for Version 3 embossers has been added.

File Import:

• Import Music Braille - Music Braille files can be imported into documents when GOODFEEL® is installed. (This depends upon GOODFEEL version 3.0 which we understand is forthcoming as of 2004-9-2.)
• Scientific Notebook - Various improvements have been made to the Scientific Notebook importer.
• Word Importer + Text Boxes - Further improvements have been made to the Word Importer. In addition, Word Text Boxes are now imported.

Internationalization:

• Change Program Language - Support has been added to enable DBT to display its menus in other languages. What is available may be subject to licensing conditions. In addition to English, there are:
  Danish
  German
  Spanish
  French
  Italian
  Norwegian

New Languages:

• The list of languages for print-braille translation has been extended to include:
  Arabic
  Danish
  English/American Textbook (Distinct Emphasis)
  English/British (New) (Experimental)
  French/Quebec
  Hebrew/American Uncontracted
  Hebrew/Israeli Uncontracted
  Latvian/Uncontracted
  Polish
  Romanian/Uncontracted
  Turkish/Uncontracted

Folding:

• A new Fold code will produce a blank line to allow one or two page folds.

Vertical Page Alignment:

• New Codes enable Title pages and such like to be centered vvertically on the page.
• Braille can also be aligned to bottom of page.

Templates:

• You can now store text in Templates. For example, you could set up a letter heading for yourself to save constantly re-typing your name and address details.
• If a style named "initial" is defined in your template, then the start codes for this style will be implicitly applied at the start of every document created with this template.
• Hide unused Templates.
• Set a Default Template.
• Associate Template with a Word - DBT Customized Style mapping file.

New DBT & Word Template:

• A DBT Template and connecting Microsoft Word template have been added to simplify transcription according to BANA standards, using terminology familiar to BANA transcribers. These templates were designed by Susan Christensen, a well-known BANA Transcriber. The principles and templates themselves could readily be adapted for use with other braille standards.

Customized Word - DBT Mapping Files:

• You may now create custom .mws Mapping Files and link them to selected Templates.

Table of Contents Generator:

• A bug in the UK Templates which caused page numbers to be one out has been fixed.

Mouse Wheel:

• Sighted users will find the scroll facility offered by a wheel mouse useful.

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10.4a / 2002-5-31

Min Sys Req: Windows 95 or higher, 25 MB free hard drive space

• New build to fix problem embossing from Windows NT.

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10.4 / 2002-4-16 (2002-5-9)

Min Sys Req: Windows 95 or higher, 25 MB free hard drive space

• 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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10.3 / 2001-1-9 (2001-1-26)

Min Sys Req: Windows 95 or higher, 25 MB free hard drive space

• Microsoft Word 2000 files can now be imported.
• Microsoft Word imports have been improved in a number of respects, including the addition of a Global / Word Importer dialog that allows selecting: (1) whether to treat Courier font as CBC, (2) whether to preserve hard page breaks, and (3) whether to treat braille font as defining material already in braille (to be passed through without translation).
• An importer has been added for LaTeX files, such as those generated by the "Scientific Notebook" math editor, including both the text and the mathematics.
• An importer has been added for NISO (DAISY) XML files.
• ASCII files to be imported may be encoded according to Windows or Macintosh conventions as well as MS-DOS conventions.
• Support for literary print-to-braille translation has been added for Malay, Ndebele, Norwegian, Russian and Swati (Siswati).
• Support for print-to-English Moon translation has been added. (Moon is a system of tactile writing wherein the raised characters mostly resemble the print characters for which they stand, thereby making the system especially easy to learn for people who become blind late in life. Although it is not a form of braille, Moon can be used as a stepping-stone to the learning of braille. An Enabling Technologies embosser with "Moon mode" setting, or equivalent, must be used to emboss the output.)
• A graduated partial contraction series, following the "Cluster" Series developed and used at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI), has been added.
• The American English tables have been updated to: (1) correct contraction usage in certain obscure words; (2) incorporate a large number of technical symbols for mathematics; (3) add the Euro symbol; (4) force spaces around "signs of comparison" even if not present in the input; (5) recognize certain short "enclosed lists" in math automatically, even if not so marked; (6) add the translation codes [bolim] and [bulim] to stand for "lim" with bar over and under, respectively.
• The British English tables have been updated to: (1) add support for British maths, following "British Mathematics Notation 1987" and (2) allow contraction of "to", "into", or "by" followed by [ii] code.
• The Unified English (UEBC or UBC) tables have been updated to incorporate technical notation such as math.
• The Cymraeg (Welsh) tables have been updated to include direct codes for accented w and y, simplifying their import from Word.
• The French tables have been updated to: (1) exchange the braille signs for parentheses and quotes, change the sign for dash to dots 3-6, 3-6, and make corresponding changes in contraction usage per new French rules; (2) add the translation code [vrn~gpt] to allow translation of those characters (guillemets, parenthSses, tirets) and contractions according to the "old" rules (and code [vrn] cancels that effect); and (3) add support for French mathematics braille.
• The Irish Gaelic tables have been updated per new information about contraction usage.
• The Spanish (Uncontracted) tables have been updated for new punctuation marks and other symbols per "Manual de Transcription Braille" (1998 ONCE) and other sources.
• Some embosser setup parameters have been added or corrected.
• Under Global / Internationalization, French has been added as a selectable code page for braille display driving.
• The Help system has been overhauled, and now includes Windows HTML-style help and two new documents: a Transcriber's Guide and a Translation Tables Reference.
• A crashing bug that could be encountered after use of scrollbars has been corrected.
• The search/replace functions have been updated to allow entry of accented letters and other miscellaneous characters into the search and replace fields, and to correct a bug that could cause some replacements to be missed.
• Distribution is now normally on CD, with a separate diskette used only for the license file in new installations. All the documents being now on the CD and the installed software, "hard-copy" documents will be omitted in all update distributions and in certain other instances.
• There is now a separate "all-French" version, i.e. one in which the prompts, messages and online documents are in French.

Fall 1999, last edition of MS-DOS version of DBT.

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10.2e / 1999-6-4 (1999-6-7)

Min Sys Req: Windows 95 or higher, 25 MB free hard drive space

• A problem has been corrected that prevented the "help on help" and certain other help screens from being displayed under some conditions. (Note: this problem was inadvertently introduced in version 10.2d; it would not have affected versions earlier than that.)
• Problems involving highlighting across page boundaries or at the end of the text and certain operations such as spell-checking or cutting and pasting have been corrected. Some of these could affect screen-reader operations or even cause a crash.
• A specific Word import problem was found and corrected.

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10.2d / 1999-3-11 (1999-3-15)

• Support for print-to-braille translation in a number of new languages or variants has been added, viz. for:
  • Afrikaans,
  • English/South African,
  • English/Unified (UBC) (Experimental!)
  • Irish Gaelic,
  • Nguni (Xhosa/Zulu),
  • Sotho (Sesotho),
  • Swedish/Uncontracted,
  • Tsonga,
  • Venda, and
  • Welsh (Cymraeg).
  All, except as noted, are contracted braille systems. Special thanks to the South Africa Blind Workers and the Institute for the Blind, South Africa, who principally developed the Afrikaans, Nguni, Sotho, Tsonga and Venda tables. Please note also that the UBC tables are incorporated for experimental uses only; UBC is not yet an officially accepted code for general braille production.
• We have improved the coded view text wrapping so that the line won't wrap at the first letter of the line, and cursor placement, so that the cursor and new text will appear on one line.
• We have improved the formatted view cursor placement so that the cursor may be viewed on blank lines.
• Some crashes that could be encountered while scrolling or auto-scrolling have been fixed.
• Table imports from MS Word have been greatly improved, so that the outline form of braille tables are automated.
• DBT now recognizes several of the most commonly used MS Word styles, and equates them with DBT styles. For instance, the Word style "Normal" imports as the DBT style "para."
• DBT now supports the auto-numbered lists and auto-bulleted lists which MS Word creates. We do recommend using list styles in Word when creating lists, so as to enable DBT to import the formatting better.
• DBT now recognizes bold and italic font changes, and automatically applies the braille symbols appropriately. Please note that this will not affect the print document, as DBT currently does not support font changes within a print document.
• If text in a braille font is imported from another document, DBT will use "grade 0," which will leave the imported braille as-is through the import and translation processes.

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10.2c / 1998-8-13 (1998-8-18)

• Long file names are now supported in Windows 95, 98 and NT. This is because a "32-bit" version of DBT Win is now installed on those versions of Windows. On Windows 3.x, a 16-bit version of DBT Win is installed. (The installation program automatically installs the appropriate version of DBT Win.)
• There is now an uninstaller.
• The license file (GJGMW.DXR or HJGMW.DXR) is now by itself on a separate "license disk", for convenience. The license disk is still needed only at installation,
• There have been minor updates to the American and British translation tables, and somewhat more extensive updates to the French translation tables.

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10.2b / 1998-2-3 (1998-2-18)

• A problem affecting the back/front margin calculation when embossing in interpoint mode was corrected. Also, form-feeds after the second and subsequent pages could be inappropriately omitted in some circumstances, affecting both interpoint and single-sided embossing. (Note: These problems were introduced as an inadvertent by-product of the graphic inclusion feature in earlier editions of version 10.2; they would not affect versions 10.1 and earlier.)

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10.2a / 1997-11-26 (1997-12-1)

• With permission, Microsoft code libraries (DLL's) needed for Word imports on older Windows 3.x systems were added to the distribution (they are built-in on Windows 95 and NT systems).
• Small changes were made to improve Word imports with "smart quotes" (but note that it remains generally advisable to have "smart quotes" turned OFF in any word processor, including Word).
• A default setting that applies when embossing directly to a physical port has been changed, so that special settings for that case should be needed less frequently. (But note that it remains generally advisable to use a "Windows device" instead of a direct port in most circumstances, as explained in the README document.)

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10.2 / 1997-10-27 (1997-10-28)

• A direct import filter was added for Word 7 and Word 97 files.
• A generalized import toolkit (WordPort) was incorporated into the product, enabling import of numerous kinds word-processor files (including Word 6 and a second option for importing Word 7 files).
• Support for mathematics and science notation according to American code (Nemeth Code) has been added. This involved addition of associated mathematical tagging (e.g. superscript start/end codes) and characters, and provision for the special handling of contractions in "math context" as well as actual math notation.
• Support for inclusion of dot-graphic files, such as those produced by the TAG graphic composition program (.SIG files) and the ETGrafix and VPGRAPH screen capture programs (.BRG and .VIM files) has been added. This was done by adding a new "gd" (graphic data) command, which is generally similar in purpose to the former "pi" command, but is improved -notably in that the included file data is now actually incorporated into the DBT file at the time of reference, rather than relying upon access to the graphic file at embossing time.
• Braille-to-print translation when using the Spanish tables was improved so that grade 1 Spanish should read normally.
• Direct support for several new languages has been added on the Document/Translation menu. These new languages are:
  • Dutch/Uncontracted
  • Finnish/Uncontracted
  • German/Uncontracted
  • Italian/Uncontracted
  • Kiswahili (Swahili)
  • Latin/Uncontracted
  • Portuguese/Brazilian
• The "help" documentation has been considerably updated, and now includes a "how-to" section covering special topics such as working with mathematics notation and mixed-language documents.
• The "direct codes list" (from the Layout menu, or F5) has been improved to include a brief description and also selectable categories.
• A problem that could cause the cursor to jump to a different position when switching between coded and formatted views has been corrected.
• A memory allocation problem that could cause a crash in certain circumstances (experienced by only a few users in practice) has been corrected.

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10.1f / 1997-4-8 (1997-4-9)

• A problem that could cause a crash when editing and switching between coded and formatted views has been corrected.
• The treatment of German language within the British tables was improved, that is there is now better "partial grade 2 German". Likewise, use of the specifically foreign-language punctuation and other indicators was restricted to grade 2. Both changes are for better conformity with British treatment of foreign languages embedded in English context.
• Certain words were corrected in the French tables.
• There was a minor correction to the WordPerfect import, for certain unusual kinds of quote marks in character set 4.

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10.1e / 1997-3-13 (1997-3-14)

• A problem that commonly caused truncation of larger file imports has been corrected.
• A problem affecting use of the scroll bar for viewing has been corrected.
• The ability to select contractions when using the American tables (by section from the LOC "Braille Instruction Manual") is now incorporated within DBT's menus. (This was previously accomplished by manual file manipulations, using a separate free supplement nicknamed "WeeBee Dots".)
• The braille-to-print table selection is now automatically inferred from the print-to-braille choice.
• The WordPerfect character-set mapping tables have been updated so that Greek and Cyrillic text should now be converted, at the point of import, to special print file codes that directly determine the braille. This will effect useful braille translation in both cases. For Greek, the code used is for "classical" Greek.
• Foreign-language treatment within English has been both generalized and simplified by addition of the "[lng~..]" code for language switching. Older methods (based on the [fl-lifg] and [fl-span] codes) remain operative.
• By default, grade 1 within English now observes the dot-4 convention for accented letters, instead of presuming that French or German conventions should be followed, unless either the [fl-lifg] or the [fl-span] code has been explicitly used. A new code, [fl-none], can be used to restore the default condition if one of the other [fl-...] codes has been used (but the new [lng~...] codes are simpler and now preferred, in any case).
• Support for the Maori language (via [lng~mao]) has been added, within the American tables.
• New editing operations for style and line joining have been added.
• The quick-reference document on codes has been reorganized and updated.
• The braille-to-print translation has been updated slightly. The "religious" contractions will now be expanded only if the new "[vrn~rlg]" code is used; otherwise they will not be recognized. Also, we have discontinued the previous custom of using dot 4 to "quote" the next braille character, that is to assert that it has its "ASCII braille" meaning; instead, the BANA symbols using dot 4 prefix, such as the percent sign (dots 4, 2-5, 1-2-3-4) are recognized where appropriate. The former "quoting" behavior may be restored, if desired, using the new "[vrn~quo]" code.

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10.1d / 1996-10-2 (1996-10-2)

• An option to issue a banner page on embossed output was added.
• A translation problem with certain capitalized accented letters was corrected.
• Speed and other minor issues were improved in some imports, e.g. HTML files (via SGML/ICADD import).
• Imports from WordPerfect were improved for certain special characters (e.g. cent, degree).

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10.1c / 1995-12-29 (1996-8-8)

• Update distributed TrueType fonts and font generator program (BRAILLE.TTF, SIMBRL.TTF & BRLBLD.EXE, with new file dates 1996-7-11), so that fonts will work properly on Windows NT

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10.1b / 1995-12-29 (1995-12-29)

• Correct problem with WordPerfect 6.1 file imports
• Correct incompatibility with certain Windows 95 printer drivers
• Improve compatibility with JAWS for Windows (i.e. the latest version -JAWS itself was recently updated)
• Improve import from HTML files (via SGML/ICADD import)

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10.1a / 1995-9-29 (1995-10-2)

• Fix problem with "hard" spaces, which were being ignored in formatting.
• The SGML/ICADD import/export filter was changed for a better match to the new standard templates, with linear styles.
• Operations, especially search & replace, have been speeded up.
• Some problems with printing and screen redrawing/updating were fixed.
• Fix some cases where linear style codes could be left unpaired, particularly when the matching code appeared at the beginning or end of the document.
• Allow import suggestion logic to choose WordPerfect for WP 6.1 files.
• Fixed highlighting problems that could occur when switching between coded and formatted views.

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10.1 / 1995-9-8 (1995-9-11)

• Initial release of DBT Win product.

DBT Win Releases

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DBT 12.7 SR2 / 2023-10-2 (2023-10-4)
DBT 12.7 SR1 / 2023-9-6 (2023-9-11)
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DBT 12.6 SR2 / 2022-03-6 (2023-03-22)
DBT 12.6 SR1 / 2022-12-8 (2023-1-12)
DBT 12.6 / 2022-4-15 (2022-4-25)
DBT 12.5 SR4 / 2021-10-22 (2021-11-09)
DBT 12.5 SR3 / 2021-06-16 (2021-07-06)
DBT 12.5 SR2 / 2021-04-02 (2021-04-27)
DBT 12.5 SR1 / 2021-02-01 (2021-02-02)
DBT 12.5 / 2021-01-14 (2021-01-19)
DBT 12.4 sr1 / 2019-03-07 (2019-03-12)
DBT 12.4 / 2018-12-20 (2019-01-03)
DBT 12.3 sr1 / 2018-07-03 (2018-07-05)
DBT 12.3 / 2018-06-20 (2018-06-21)
DBT 12.2 sr1 / 2017-12-19 (2018-01-09)
DBT 12.2 / 2017-08-25 (2017-08-25)
DBT 12.1 sr1 / 2016-09-01 (2016-09-16)
DBT 12.1 / 2016-07-26 (2016-09-09)
DBT 11.3 sr1 / 2015-11-24 (2015-12-03 )
DBT 11.3 / 2015-07-08 (2015-07-10)
DBT 11.2 sr4 / 2014-09-09
DBT 11.2 sr3 / 2014-08-25 (2014-08-29)
DBT 11.2 sr2 / 2014-05-06 (2014-05-12)
DBT 11.2 sr1 / 2014-02-26 (2014-02-26)
DBT 11.2 / 2014-01-28 (2014-01-29)
DBT 11.1sr4 / 2012-04-23 (2012-04-24)
DBT 11.1sr3 / 2011-12-23 (2011-12-23)
DBT 11.1sr2 / 2011-5-03 (2011-5-04)
DBT 11.1sr1 / 2011-3-2 (2011-3-4)
DBT 11.1 / 2011-1-7 (2011-1-18)
DBT 10.7 sr1 / 2009-3-18 (2009-6-5)
DBT 10.7 / 2008-5-20 (2008-06-23)
DBT 10.6 sr4 / 2007-7-19 (2007-11-30)
DBT 10.6 sr1 / 2007-2-21 (2007-2-28)
DBT 10.6 / 2006-7-27 (2006-8-15)
DBT 10.5 sr2 / 2005-8-18 (2005-9-1)
DBT 10.5 sr1 / 2004-8-23 (2004-12-1)
DBT 10.5 / 2004-8-23 (2004-9-2)
DBT 10.4a / 2002-5-31
DBT 10.4 / 2002-4-16 (2002-5-9)
DBT 10.3 / 2001-1-9 (2001-1-26)
DBT 10.2e / 1999-6-4 (1999-6-7)
DBT 10.2d / 1999-3-11 (1999-3-15)
DBT 10.2c / 1998-8-13 (1998-8-18)
DBT 10.2b / 1998-2-3 (1998-2-18)
DBT 10.2a / 1997-11-26 (1997-12-1)
DBT 10.2 / 1997-10-27 (1997-10-28)
DBT 10.1f / 1997-4-8 (1997-4-9)
DBT 10.1e / 1997-3-13 (1997-3-14)
DBT 10.1d / 1996-10-2 (1996-10-2)
DBT 10.1c / 1995-12-29 (1996-8-8)
DBT 10.1b / 1995-12-29 (1995-12-29)
DBT 10.1a / 1995-9-29 (1995-10-2)
DBT 10.1 / 1995-9-8 (1995-9-11)

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