Duxbury DBT 11.1 Help File (Internet Edition)

Text copyright by Duxbury Systems, Inc. (most text authored by George Bell)

This text is for an older edition of Duxbury DBT, issued in 12/2011.

Click here for DBT 12.7 documentation (7/2023)

Table of Contents

1: Welcome to DBT

• Welcome to DBT
  • Using This Help System
  • Navigating Help
  • Help Conventions
  • JAWS Scripts
  • About Braille (Brief)
  • The Purpose of DBT
  • WHAT'S NEW IN DBT 11.1 (SR3)?
  • UEB (Unified English Braille)
  • Guidelines for the Use of Braille Translators
  • About Duxbury Systems and How to Contact Us
  • Getting Help
  • Keyboard Shortcuts

2: Getting Setup in DBT

• Getting Set Up in DBT
  • EULA
  • Installation
    • Simple Installation
    • Custom Installation
    • Network Installation (Overview)
      • Per-Machine (Stand-alone) Installation
      • Per-User Installation
    • Removing DBT
  • Registration and Activation
    • Registration...
    • Activation
    • Remove DBT
  • Embosser Setup
    • Embosser Setup
    • General
    • Device Settings
    • Advanced
  • Autosave Setup
  • Screen Setup
  • Printer Setup
  • Other Setup Items
    • Printer Setup
    • Default Views
    • Fonts
    • Shortcut Preferences...
    • WordPerfect Importer
    • Word Importer
    • Formatted Braille Importer
  • Beginner's Guide
    • First Document
    • Using Existing Documents

3: The Menus

• The Menus
  • File
    • New...
    • Open...
    • Close.
    • Save.
    • Save as...
    • Translate
    • Print...
    • Emboss...
    • Emboss - TranSendSE
    • Other Program(s)
    • Exit.
    • Recently Used Files
  • Edit
    • Undo
    • Redo
    • Cut
    • Copy
    • Paste
    • Clear
    • Select All
    • Highlight
    • Change Case
    • Insert File
    • Goto...
    • Find...
    • Find Again
    • Replace...
    • Spell Check...
    • Find Misspelling
  • View
    • Full-Page.
    • Print Font.
    • Braille Font.
    • SimBraille Font
    • Six Key (Braille) Entry.
    • Codes
    • Translated Line
    • Active Document(s)
  • Layout
    • Apply Style...
    • Apply Last Style
    • Style Level +
    • Style Level -
    • Join Styles
    • Join Lines
    • Translation Codes
      • Grade 0
      • Grade 1
      • Grade 2
      • CBC
      • Spanish Text
      • LIFG Text
    • Character Codes
      • Letter Sign
      • Termination Sign
      • Hard Space
      • Group
    • Line Codes
      • New Line
      • Skip Line
      • Suppress Skipped Line
      • Centering
      • Line Codes: Flush Right.
      • Flush Right with Leader.
      • Tab To Runover Point
      • Single Spacing
      • Double Spacing
      • New Paragraph
    • Left Margin.
    • Right Margin.
    • Runover Offset.
    • Math Codes.
    • Page Codes
      • New Page
      • New Reference Page
      • Block Protect.
      • Vertical Centering
    • Set Page Number...
    • Header...
    • Footer...
    • Generate Table of Contents.
    • Picture
    • Code List...
  • Tables
    • Tables: Create
    • Tables: Properties
  • Document
    • Embosser Setup...
    • Printer Setup...
    • Page Numbering...
    • Translation Tables
    • Learning Tables
    • Hyphen Table
    • Add Style...
    • Modify Style
    • Delete Style
    • Create Template...
    • Delete Template...
  • Global
    • Embosser Setup
      • General
      • Device Settings
      • TranSendSE
      • Advanced
    • Printer Setup...
    • Autosave Options
      • Autosave Recovery Wizard
    • Default Views...
    • Internationalization
    • Fonts...
    • View Preferences...
    • Shortcut Preferences...
    • WordPerfect Importer...
    • Word Importer...
    • Formatted Braille Importer...
    • Hyperlink Settings
  • Help
    • Help Topics...
    • Translate
    • Favorite Topics...
    • New in 11.1 (SR3)
    • Registration...
    • Check for Updates...
    • About DBT...

4: Working with Microsoft Word

• Working With Word
  • Word - Top 10 Tips
  • SWIFT
    • Important Notes
    • System requirements.
    • How to install and remove.
    • How to use SWIFT
      • Duxbury Braille
      • Emboss Direct
      • Print Braille
      • Format Hyperlinks
      • Style Mapper
      • Restore Styles
      • Append Acronym
      • Acronym Tables
      • Word Styles Lister
    • How to remove a previous version
    • Getting help
  • Word Template (BANA Braille 2010)
  • Using DBT Codes
    • Hide Your Codes
    • Use AutoText
    • A Practical Example
  • Word Style Map (MWS File)
  • Editing the ".mws" file
  • Table and Style Example
  • Mathematics
    • MathType�
    • Scientific Notebook
    • Chosing your Math Braille Tables

5: Codes, Styles and Templates

• Codes, Styles and Templates
  • Codes
    • Manually Inserting
    • Amending Codes
    • Navigating DBT Codes
    • Finding and Replacing Codes
    • DBT CODES QUICK REFERENCE
    • Page
      • New Page
      • Conditional Eject
      • Conditional Eject or Skip Line
      • Skip to Odd or Even
    • Page Margins
      • New Line and Set Left Margin
      • Set Right Margin
      • Binding Margin
      • Restore Margins
    • Page Numbering
      • Set Page Number
      • Set Page Number on New Page
      • Set Page Number Prefix
      • Set Number & Prefix on New Page
      • Set Number & Prefix on Next New Page
      • Print Page Numbers
      • Print Page Numbers (Parameters)
      • Arabic v Roman
      • Roman Number Indicator
      • Position Page Numbering
      • First Displayed
      • Create a Numbering Style
    • Page Headers & Footers
      • Headers
      • Headers (Sideroom)
      • Footers
      • Footers (Sideroom)
      • Headers (Anticipatory)
    • Headings
      • Centering Headings
      • Centering + Lines Before
      • Centering + Lines Following
    • Paragraph
      • New Paragraph
      • General Layout
      • Keep Lines Together
      • Conditional Eject
    • Line
      • New Line (Hard Return)
      • New Line (Conditional)
      • New Line (Retain Margin)
      • New Line and Set Left Margin
      • Skip Line(s)
      • Skip to line #
      • Skip to (from page end)
      • Keep Lines Together
      • Spacing
      • Reserved Line (For corrections)
    • Text
      • Group
      • Centering
      • Keep Text Together (1)
      • Keep Text Together (2)
    • Capitals
      • Invert (Computer Braille)
    • Alignment
      • Align Right (Single Word)
      • Align Right (Complete Line)
      • Align Right (With a leader Character)
      • Designated Character
      • Group
      • right justify a line
      • Centering
      • Vertical (Bottom)
      • Vertical Centering
    • Using Tabs
      • Clearing Tabs
      • Setting Tabs
      • Tab - align to
      • Decimal Tabs
      • Tab With Leader
      • Absolute Tab
      • Special Tabs
      • With Intervening Fill
    • Emphasis
    • Translation
      • Change Braille Grade
      • Prevent Contraction
      • Uncontracted Braille (Single Word)
      • Letter Sign
      • LOCK Grade 1 or 2
      • Force Braille
    • Language
      • Change Language
      • Swahili
      • Latin, Italian, French, German
    • Table of Contents
      • Include Text
      • Invisible Text
    • Music
    • Poetry
    • Miscellaneous
      • Embosser Character Table
      • Folding
      • Graphics
      • Placeholder
      • Print v Braille
      • Redundant Codes
      • Remarks
  • Styles
    • Codes and Styles - an Introduction
    • Styles - Briefly Explained
    • Revealing Styles used in Word
    • Styles - Automatically Changing
    • Formatting Documents
    • Begin and End Styles.
    • Initial Style
    • Create Style, Example 1: Right Justify a Line.
    • Create Style, Example 2: Margins.
    • Create Style, Example 3: Numbering Style
    • Create Style, Example 4: bold, italics and underline
  • Templates
    • Creating Template
    • Initial Style
    • LOCK Grade 1 or 2
    • Fine Tuning Templates
    • Word Style Maps
    • Default Templates

6: Language Translation Tables

• Language Translation Tables
  • Language Switching
  • Afrikaans
  • Afrikaans (pre-unified)
  • Albanian
  • Amharic (Ethiopic)
  • Arabic
  • Arabic (Pre-2002 Rules)
  • Armenian, Eastern
  • Assamese
  • Awadhi
  • Azerbaijani
  • Belarussian
  • Bengali (Bangla)
  • Bhojuri
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian (Uncontracted)
  • Burmese (Myanmar)
  • Catalan
  • Cebuano
  • Chinese/Mandarin
  • Chinese/Yue (Cantonese)
  • Chittagonian
  • Croatian
  • Cymraeg (Welsh)
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dari
  • Dutch
  • Dzongkha
  • EBU Pharmaceutical
  • English/American
  • English/American Textbook
  • English/American Textbook (Distinct Emphasis)
  • English/Australian (pre-Unified)
  • English/British
  • English/British (pre-2005 rules)
  • English/Moon
  • English/South African (pre-Unified)
  • English/Unified
  • Esperanto
  • Estonian
  • Ewe
  • Farsi
  • Filipino
  • Finnish (Uncontracted)
  • French (pre-Unified)
  • French/Quebec (pre-Unified)
  • French/Unified
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Greek (Classical/American)
  • Greek (Modern)/Uncontracted
  • Gujarati
  • Haryanvi
  • Hausa
  • Hebrew/American Uncontracted
  • Hebrew/Israeli Uncontracted
  • Hiligaynon
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • IPA Braille
  • Icelandic
  • Igbo
  • Iloko
  • Indonesian
  • Irish Gaelic
  • Italian/Uncontracted
  • Japanese (Kana)
  • Kannada
  • Kazakh (Uncontracted)
  • Khmer (Cambodian)
  • Kirghiz
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Kurukh
  • Lao
  • Latin/Uncontracted
  • Latvian/Uncontracted
  • Lithuanian/Uncontracted
  • Luxembourgish
  • Macedonian
  • Magahi
  • Maithili
  • Malay
  • Malayalam
  • Maltese
  • Marathi
  • Meitei (Manipuri)
  • Mongolian
  • Ndebele
  • Nepali
  • Nguni (Xhosa/Zulu)
  • Norwegian
  • Oriya
  • Panjabi
  • Polish
  • Portuguese/Uncontracted
  • Pushto
  • Romanian/Uncontracted
  • Russian/Uncontracted
  • Sadri
  • Sanskrit
  • Santali
  • Serbian
  • Sindhi
  • Sinhala
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Somali
  • Sotho (Southern and Northern (Pedi))
  • Spanish/Original
  • Spanish/Reducida
  • Swahili
  • Swati
  • Swedish/Uncontracted
  • Sylheti
  • Tagalog
  • Tajik
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Tibetan
  • Tigrinya
  • Tsonga
  • Tswana
  • Turkish/Uncontracted
  • Turkmen
  • Ukranian/Uncontracted
  • Urdu/Indian
  • Urdu/Pakistani
  • Uzbek
  • Venda
  • Vietnamese/Uncontracted
  • Xhosa
  • Yoruba
  • Zulu

7: Dealing with Embossers

• Embossers and Embossing
  • Embosser Manufacturers & Manuals
  • USB and Embossers
  • Windows Printer Drivers
  • Embossing through Windows Device fails
  • BRF files - Importing
  • Editing the .elt file
  • Embosser Character Table
  • Interpoint 55

8: Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting
  • Characters missing on DBT Screen
  • Common Problems
  • Why can't I see the shortcut letters?
  • Word - Auto Formatting and correcting
  • Word - Backward Compatibility
  • Word - Missing or wrong characters

9: Miscellaneous

• Miscellaneous
  • Braille-Build
  • Command Line DBT
  • Scientific Notebook (Brief Details)
  • Six Key Entry (Customizing)
  • Spelling Checkers
  • What was new in previous versions?
  • Moon
    • What Is Moon?
    • How do I Use Moon
    • Requirements and Limitations
    • Secondary Languages
    • Technical Codes
    • Translation Codes
    • Characters Supported
    • References, History And Credits
  • Special Characters
    • Introduction
    • Euro
    • Alt GR Key
    • DBT Supported Characters - Alt Method
    • (U+00xx) - Basic Latin
    • (U+01xx) - Latin Extended
    • (U+02xx) - Latin Extended-B
    • (U+03xx) - Greek and Coptic
    • (U+04xx) - Cyrillic Script
    • (U+05xx) - Cyrillic, Armenian and Hebrew
    • (U+06xx) - Arabic
    • (U+09xx) - Devangari and Bengali
    • (U+0Axx) - Gurmukhi and Gujarati
    • (U+0Bxx) - Oriya and Tamil
    • (U+0Cxx) - Telugu and Kannada
    • (U+0Dxx) - Malayalam and Sinhala
    • (U+0Exx) - Thai and Lao
    • (U+0Fxx) - Tibetan
    • (U+10xx) - Myanmar and Georgian
    • (U+11xx) - Korean
    • (U+12xx) - Ethiopic Syllable
    • (U+13xx) - Ethiopic Script
    • (U+17xx) - Khmer
    • (U+1Dxx) - Phonetics and Diacritics
    • (U+1Exx) - Latin Extended Additional
    • (U+20xx) - General Punctuation
    • (U+21xx) - Cyrillic Script
    • (U+22xx) - Mathematical Operators
    • (U+23xx) - Miscellaneous Technical
    • (U+25xx) - Box Drawing Characters
    • (U+26xx) - Miscellaneous Symbols
    • (U+27xx) - Dingbats and Arrows
    • (U+29xx) - Supplemental Arrows-B
    • (U+2Axx) - Supplemental Mathematical Operators
    • (U+30xx) - Japanese Kana
  • Historical Documentation
    • Understanding DBT
      • Welcome
      • Chapter 1: Working With Styles
      • Chapter 2: Working With Templates
      • Chapter 3: Creating MS Word Documents for Braille Translation
      • Chapter 4: Scanning Documents
      • Chapter 5: Page Numbering
      • Chapter 6: Formatting according to BANA Standards with DBT
      • Appendix A - DBT Styles
      • Appendix B - MS Word Styles
      • Appendix C - DBT Codes
      • Appendix D - Mathematical and Nonalphabetical Signs, Print Shapes, Numbers, and Numeration Systems
      • Appendix E - Diacritics
      • Appendix F - DBT for Windows Shortcut Keys

10: Vista and Windows 7 Issues

• Vista and Windows 7 issues
  • Activation
  • Adding Embossers
  • Creating Templates
  • Device in Use
  • Shared Printers
  • Upgrading

11: Glossary

• Glossary
  • accelerator key
  • Accent mark
  • access bar
  • access key
  • accessibility
  • Acronym
  • activate
  • active
  • active end
  • active window
  • Acute Accent
  • adornment
  • Alt (Key)
  • anchor point
  • anti-aliasing
  • apply
  • auto-exit
  • auto-joining
  • automatic scrolling
  • auto-repeat
  • balloon tip
  • Baud Rate
  • Button
  • cancel
  • caret
  • cascading menu
  • check box
  • child menu
  • child window
  • chord
  • Chording
  • Circumflex
  • Click
  • click (v.)
  • Clipboard
  • close
  • code page
  • collection
  • column heading
  • combo box
  • command button
  • composite
  • Computerese
  • constraint
  • container
  • context menu
  • context-sensitive Help
  • contextual
  • contiguous selection
  • control
  • Control menu
  • Control Panel
  • Cross-reference
  • Ctrl (Key)
  • cursor
  • data link
  • data-centered design
  • DBT
  • default
  • default button
  • delete
  • desktop
  • desktop toolbar
  • Device(s)
  • dialog box
  • dialog unit
  • Dialogue Box
  • Dieresis
  • dimmed
  • disabled
  • disjoint selection
  • dock
  • document
  • document window
  • Double Click
  • double-click
  • drag
  • drag-and-drop operation
  • drop-down combo box
  • drop-down list box
  • drop-down menu
  • Duxbury
  • edit field
  • Edit menu
  • ellipsis
  • embedded object
  • Emboss
  • event
  • explicit selection
  • extended selection
  • extended-selection list box
  • File menu
  • flat appearance
  • folder
  • font
  • font size
  • font style
  • glyph
  • grayed
  • group box
  • handle
  • Help menu
  • heterogeneous selection
  • Hex (Hexadecimal)
  • hierarchical menu
  • hold
  • homogeneous selection
  • hot spot
  • Hot zone
  • hover selection
  • hyperlink
  • icon
  • implicit selection
  • inactive
  • Inactive window
  • indeterminate
  • InfoTip
  • input focus
  • input focus appearance
  • insertion point
  • inside-out activation
  • jump
  • Keyboard Shortcut
  • label
  • landscape
  • link
  • link path
  • linked object
  • list box
  • list view
  • locale
  • localization
  • marquee
  • maximize
  • MDI
  • menu
  • menu bar
  • menu button
  • menu item
  • menu title
  • message box
  • minimize
  • mixed-value appearance
  • mnemonic
  • modal
  • mode
  • modeless
  • modifier key
  • moniker
  • mouse
  • multiple-document interface (MDI)
  • multiple-selection list box
  • My Computer
  • Network Neighborhood
  • nondefault drag-and-drop operation
  • object
  • object-action paradigm
  • OLE (Microsoft OLE)
  • open appearance
  • operation
  • option button
  • option-set appearance
  • outside-in activation
  • package
  • palette window
  • pane
  • parent window
  • persistence
  • point
  • Point Size
  • pointer
  • pop-up menu
  • pop-up window
  • portrait
  • press
  • pressed appearance
  • primary window
  • Print
  • procedural Help
  • Program Group
  • progress indicator
  • progress indicator control
  • progressive disclosure
  • project
  • properties
  • property inspector
  • property page
  • property sheet
  • property sheet control
  • push button
  • radio button
  • range selection
  • recognition
  • Recycle Bin
  • reference Help
  • region selection
  • relationship
  • rich-text box
  • Right-Click
  • roam
  • scope
  • scrap
  • scroll
  • scroll arrow button
  • scroll bar
  • scroll bar shaft
  • scroll box
  • secondary window
  • select
  • selection
  • selection appearance
  • selection handle
  • separator
  • shell
  • shortcut
  • shortcut icon
  • shortcut key
  • Shortcut Keys
  • Shortcut Keys: Function Keys
  • shortcut menu
  • single-selection list box
  • size grip
  • slider
  • spin box
  • split bar
  • split box
  • Start Button
  • status bar
  • status bar control
  • stop
  • submenu
  • System menu
  • tab control
  • Task Bar
  • taskbar
  • task-oriented Help
  • template
  • Text
  • text box
  • thread
  • title bar
  • toggle key
  • toolbar
  • toolbar button
  • toolbar control
  • ToolTip
  • transaction
  • transfer appearance
  • tree control
  • type
  • UEB
  • unavailable
  • unavailable appearance
  • Undo
  • unfold button
  • Unicode
  • visual editing
  • white space
  • window
  • wizard
  • Wordwrap
  • workbook
  • workspace
  • Z order

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