The "initial" Style

(This important Topic appears in both the Styles and Templates sections)

When you create a DBT Template, you may wish that Template to perform in a certain way.  You can therefore use a special Style called "initial" which will apply to the Template.

This feature is probably easiest to explain by example.

Let us suppose we wish to create a Template whereby any file we import, will be translated into Grade 1 braille.   However, in all other respects, we wish our Template to work in exactly the same way as the "English (American) - Standard Literary Format".

Image shows a section of the Document: Add Style dialog

 

image shows the Edit Style Codes dialog

Image shows a section of the Document: Create Template doalog

When you now Import or create a New file, you will find that the Template you have created is listed. (In alphabetical order)

 

Image shows the Import File dialog with the "Grade 1 - Standard Literary" Template name in the Template list.            Image shows the File: New dialog with the "Grade 1 - Standard Literary" Template name in the Template list.

However, when you now Translate, you will find that the Braille document is in Grade 1 braille.

 

 

NOTE:  (Hopefully this will give you some idea of this feature's potential)

In some Templates, an initial style already exists.  A good example of this is "English (British - no capitals in literary", where you will see that the initial Style already exists as shown below. (Except for the [tx] and [g1] codes)

 

Image shows the Edit Style Codes dialog as described in this section.

 

So just what do these codes mean?

[svant3] sets running header on both pages if used.

[svdac~1] determines the decimal separator where numbers are used.

[svles1:1:0] sets default reference page number treatment.

[caplv1] suppresses capitals in the literary braille only.

By adding the [tx] and [g1] codes, as explained above, any imported or new document will be translated using Grade 1.