By J. R. Westmoreland
This document describes the basic instructions you will need to use the .mws files as part of the DBTWin program.
The .mws file is used to control the substitution, or mapping, of MS-Word styles to DBTWin styles. This translation is controlled, and modified by, the instructions contained in the .mws file.
The .mws file consists of two parts: Comments, which can be used to describe the files use and other documentation. And Mapping Elements, which tell DBTWin how to do the importing from MS-Word styles to the corresponding styles in DBT.
The Comment Lines are lines that begin with a number sign "#". The rest of the line is ignored. These lines can contain anything you wish. It is a good idea to use the comments to describe the function of the file and other items that might be necessary for some one else to know if they need to modify the file later.
The Mapping Elements are used to specify the name of the MS-Word style, its type, and the name of the DBT style to which this MS-Word should be mapped. It can also contain additional instructions that control how the DBT style is handled and other attributes.
The rest of this document will describe the format and parameters of the mapping elements. It will also talk about the limitations of the .mws file.
The general format of the mapping element is:
{
<parameter> = <value>
…
}
We will now discuss each of the parts of the mapping element.
The type of the mapping element. This item has one of the following values: User which indicates that the MS-Word style is a user defined style. These are all styles that are not part of those defined by default in MS-Word. Please see the list of Built-in styles at the end of this document. Built-In are the default styles as defined by Microsoft as part of Word. Also, Built-In styles are those that will have their names change based on your locale for Word. In general, it is a good idea to try User first and if that fails then try Built-In.
This is the name of the style defined in Word. This name should match the word style name in spelling as well as case. This item, as well as all other items in this file, is case sensitive.
The opening and closing braces "{" and "}" are used to group the parameter and value pairs together for the MS-Word style name described above.
Now we will discuss each of the name/value pair items that can be placed in side the body of the mapping definition. The body is the information that is enclosed in the braces.
The value of this parameter is the DBT style name. If this name has a dot "." At its end, like the "para." Style, you must drop the "." From the name. E.g., "para." Would become "para". You can also use the value "none" to indicate that there is not a style mapping for this MS-Word style. Note: the DBT style name must be surrounded with double quotes.
This keyword is used only for Footnote Reference and Endnote Reference styles. In these cases, the MappedName keyword specifies the name of the DBT style used where the reference appears in the body of the document, and the MappedNameInNote keyword specifies the name of the DBT style used where the reference appears within the footnote or endnote.
This parameter is used to leave out a paragraph from the import. It can take the following values: Always which can be used to eliminate a paragraph from the document being imported such as print-only items like header and footer. IfBlank which is used to eliminate blank paragraphs. IfOrnamental used to eliminate paragraphs whose contents are just lines of characters like dashes "-", or asterisks "*", etc.
AggregateForward = Always | Never | IfSameName | IfSameCategory
AggregateBackward = Always | Never | IfSameName | IfSameCategory
These keywords are used to check the next and previous paragraphs and determine their treatment relative to the current paragraph style mapping. It can have the following values: IfSameName which will aggregate the paragraphs into a single block of the specified style. Always which indicates that the paragraph should always be aggregated in to the current style. Never that indicates that the paragraph should never be aggregated to the current style. This means that the paragraph will always be imported into a DBT linear paragraph style independent of the style being used before or after it. IfSameCategory which is only applicable if you have a "Category=Index" or "Category=TOC" item in the map element body.
This keyword is the DBT style level that should be applied to the mapped style. The mapped style is the style specified in the MappedName parameter. The value of this parameter is a number that indicates the level.
Note that Level is most often useful when a series of paragraphs is aggregated. The combination of these three properties, Level, AggregateForware and AggregateBackward is intended to bridge the gap between the way the designers of Word conceived of styles and the way Duxbury did.
This parameter is used to specify the category of the mapping. The Category parameter can have one of three values at this time. They are: TOC - indicating that this table of contents, Index - indicating that this is an index, or None - indicating that there is no category.
This parameter is used to tell DBT how to handle emphasis indicators. The two possible values to this parameter are: Never - emphasis used in the style will be shown in braille - and InDef - DBT will ignore emphasis that is part of the style definition, but show emphasis that has been added to characters within the style.
This can have one of two values True or False. False is the default. When set to True, this causes a style to be ignored when it occurs in a Word table of contents. E.g., not mapped to a DBT style. Word makes hyperlinks out of table of content entries. This parameter can be used to avoid putting table of content entries into computer braille.
This parameter can be set to True or False. False is the default. Normally, DBT looks upon centering of a paragraph (or line) in a Word file as significant. Users generally want centered lines in the print document to be centered in braille. However, when this flag is set to True, the text that is set in that style will not be centered in DBT even if the user centers it in the Word document unless it is part of the DBT style.
This parameter can be set to True of False. False is the default. This is typically set for character styles. When set to true, DBT will omit [ps] and [pe] codes to indicate that the text is superscript, if the superscripting is part of the style definition.
This parameter is similar to the Ignore parameter. It takes the same values as the Ignore parameter. The difference being that while Ignore will lose the start and end tags this parameter will lose the contents rather than the tags.
Now that we have finished the discussion of the format and parameters, with their values, of the .mws file let us talk about some good practices when you decide to modify these files.
The prime rule is: "Make sure you backup the file you want to modify. If you do not you WILL be sorry."
Remember that there are limitations to what you can do with the .mws file even though it is a very powerful tool.
Normal
Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 3
Heading 4
Heading 5
Heading 6
Heading 7
Heading 8
Heading 9
Index 1
Index 2
Index 3
Index 4
Index 5
Index 6
Index 7
Index 8
Index 9
TOC 1
TOC 2
TOC 3
TOC 4
TOC 5
TOC 6
TOC 7
TOC 8
TOC 9
Normal Indent
Footnote Text
Annotation Text
Header
Footer
Index Heading
Caption
Table of Figures
Envelope Address
Envelope Return
Footnote Reference
Annotation Reference
Line Number
Page Number
Endnote Reference
Endnote Text
Table of Authorities
Macro Text
TOA Heading
List
List Bullet
List Number
List 2
List 3
List 4
List 5
List Bullet 2
List Bullet 3
List Bullet 4
List Bullet 5
List Number 2
List Number 3
List Number 4
List Number 5
Title
Closing
Signature
Default Paragraph Font
Body Text
Body Text Indent
List Continue
List Continue 2
List Continue 3
List Continue 4
List Continue 5
Message Header
Subtitle
Salutation
Date
Body Text First Indent
Body Text First Indent 2
Note Heading
Body Text 2
Body Text 3
Body Text Indent 2
Body Text Indent 3
Block Text
Hyperlink
Followed Hyperlink
Strong
Emphasis
Document Map
Plain Text
E-mail Signature
Normal (Web)
HTML Acronym
HTML Address
HTML Site
HTML Code
HTML Definition
HTML Keyboard
HTML Preformatted
HTML Sample
HTML Typewriter
HTML Variable
Table Normal
No List
1 / a / i
1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1
Article / Section
Table Simple 1
Table Simple 2
Table Simple 3
Table Classic 1
Table Classic 2
Table Classic 3
Table Classic 4
Table Colorful 1
Table Colorful 2
Table Colorful 3
Table Columns 1
Table Columns 2
Table Columns 3
Table Columns 4
Table Columns 5
Table Grid 1
Table Grid 2
Table Grid 3
Table Grid 4
Table Grid 5
Table Grid 6
Table Grid 7
Table Grid 8
Table List 1
Table List 2
Table List 3
Table List 4
Table List 5
Table List 6
Table List 7
Table List 8
Table 3D effects 1
Table 3D effects 2
Table 3D effects 3
Table Contemporary
Table Elegant
Table Professional
Table Subtle 1
Table Subtle 2
Table Web 1
Table Web 2
Table Web 3
Table Grid
Table Theme