Christina Conroy
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Oh... also meant to ask, can stage directions use line 25 in line-numbered verse plays? They're not line numbered, so again I think yes.
Thanks!
Thanks Donald! I’m figuring out how to work with it. It appears that if I open a graphics page from someone else (a completed graphic on a template), I can just delete everything and the template remains and I start over. Works well enough for now! But any other resources are fantastic!
Thank you so much, Dan. This definitely sheds light. I think I've done this wrong for a long time! But now I know! 🙂
Thanks so much for your replies, Donald. I am using CorelDRAW 2021. I have a brand new MacBook Air that I bought about 2 weeks ago. It's got the new M1 chip, and apparently CorelDRAW 2021 was designed with it in mind. It's only got 8GB of RAM, but I've been assured that with the new chips, that is plenty for what I want to be able to do. I checked and I do not have the "enable background tasks" button checked. It's already off. I will ask about being able to upload a copy of the template, and will do so if the person I got it from is ok with it.
Thanks for the link to the video. It has a lot of good starting information, but unless I missed something somewhere, it doesn't talk about installation procedures.
For what it's worth, I am able to open other graphics files created from the templates in question. And then I can just edit those for what I need, by erasing what's already been drawn and starting over. But that's not ideal... (But it's a decent workaround for now.)
Thanks again!
Christina
Thanks for the suggestion Cindi! I'll see what seems to work best and be most logical as it gets put together.
I'll send you a couple pages that are better photographed, and not so compressed. I'll send the B2K files when I get them finished as well. I couldn't do these interesting things without you! 🙂
Christina
Thanks so much for your fast reply, Cindi! Should I eliminate all guide words, or just those for the cell-5 headed sections where they aren't going to work? (I was inclined to just eliminate them for the sections in which they aren't useful, and put a TN after the heading saying as much.)
Also, do you think I'm doing the right thing by starting cell-7 headings on new braille pages, since that causes very blank pages sometimes? Or if I'm totally eliminating guide words, is that not necessary?
Thanks again!
Christina
Sure thing, Cindi! I've also attached a couple here for any other readers of this post who might be interested.
Hi Cindi,
I have a follow-up question for you:
I am working on another text that has multiple colors of highlighting (6 so far) that have different purposes. So I need to retain all of them. They do not have shapes or anything else associated with them. I do not think I'll be able to substitute any of the other typeforms for colors since I'm using them all in the text. So I can see two ways of doing this, and I'd love to get your opinion on whether one of these is best, or whether there is another suggestion for 6 or more highlighting colors in a text.
- Use the five TD-typeforms for the first five colors, then use a TD-shape for the other(s), writing a good TN, as you suggested above.
- Use TD-shapes for them all, as suggested above. That way there is consistency for the reader throughout the text. I'm leaning this way, but I wanted your thoughts.
Thanks Cindi!
Christina
Great! Thanks so much!
Just to make sure I'm clear about the first part, I should not follow the direction that says, "Place the subentry
word [Pass auf!] on the following braille line at the established margin," but instead should indent it 2 cells. Then the translation is also 2 cells indented from the established margin (per the rule).I think moving the main entry to the next page is a good idea as well in general. Would you recommend the same thing if it's a very long set of subentries such that there is a significant portion of a page left blank? Some of the words like "gern: to like" has a very long set of subentries, and could potentially leave more than half a page blank.
Thanks so much!
It's probably also worth noting that this table is not for students to use to do exercises, or anything like that. It's a set of examples of the development stages of a small child. So it's illustrative of what children can do as they develop. So describing the pictures would not be revealing too much information for the student at which this text is aimed (college-level psychology).
I had thought to do a stairstep originally, and my editor agreed. But she might not have realized the need for TNs in describing the various cells in the table.
