MegaDots 2.5 Documentation

New Features in MegaDots and Getting Started (html files)

• MegaDots 2.5 Installation (Chapter 2)
• What's New in MegaDots 2.5
• What Was New in MegaDots 2.3 and 2.4

MegaDots Reference Manual (html file)

Press F12 inside MegaDots for the Reference Manual

• MegaDots Reference Manual

MegaDots User Manual (html files)

• Entire User Manual
• MegaDots 2.5 Command Summary

• User Manual Preliminary Pages
• Chapter 1: Welcome to MegaDots
• Chapter 2: MegaDots Installation
• MegaDots and VM Lite's XP Mode || MegaDots and Windows 7's XP Mode || MegaDots and VMware's XP Mode || Parallels Desktop for a Mac || MegaDots and VirtualBox for a Linux Computer
• Chapter 3: Your First Steps
• Chapter 4: Styles and Other Fundamental Concepts
• Chapter 5: Your Preferences
• Chapter 6: Tutorial
• Chapter 7: File Import
• Chapter 8: Simple Documents in Textbook Format
• Chapter 9: Spell Checker
• Chapter 10: Embossing and Printing
• Chapter 11: Tables and Columned Material
• Chapter 12: Find and Replace
• Chapter 13: Access Technology
• Chapter 14: NIMAS Files and NimPro
• Download NimPro from the Duxbury Systems website
• Chapter 15: Beginner Braille
• Chapter 16: MegaDots for Teachers and Transcribers
• Chapter 17: British Braille
• Chapter 18: Tips, Shortcuts and Techniques
• Chapter 19: MegaDots from the Command Line
• Chapter 20: File Export
• Chapter 21: Troubleshooting
• Chapter 22: MegaMath Translator

• Supplement 1: An Introduction to DOS
• Supplement 2: Basic Braille
• Supplement 3: Using MSG Files to Control File Import
• Supplement 4: Using The Style Sheet Editor
• Supplement 5: MegaDots Markup
• Supplement 6: Styles Built into MegaDots

MegaDots Interface Guide

Press F10 H I inside the MegaDots Editor for the Interface Guide

• MegaDots Interface Guide (html file)
• Computer Ports, USB and Embossers
• Embossit Help File with lots of Embosser Information and Troubleshooting Help

More about MegaMath (Besides What is in Chapter 22)

• MegaMath Data Entry Shortcuts (graphics)
• MegaMath Data Entry Shortcuts (text)
• Navigating the Nemeth Code Book
• PDF of the 1972 Nemeth Code Book (web link needed)
• Reading Nemeth Code
• Short List of Math Symbols used in MegaMath
• Long List of Math Symbols used in MegaMath
• Nemeth Code and MegaDots Baby Nemeth

BANA Braille Format Rules

• Word Template (BANA Braille 2010)
• MegaDots 2.5 and MS Word/BANA Template Files
• Braille Formats: Principles of Print to Braille Transcription 2011
• MegaDots Notes about the 1997 Textbook Code
• MegaDots Notes about the 2007 BANA Codes Revision

Command Summary as a Braille Formatted File

(To obtain a braille file, right click on the link, then "Save As" or "Save Target As" the file as a "textfile" or "all file", but not as an html file.)

• Formatted for 25 lines of 40 cells per line
• Formatted for 25 lines of 32 cells per line

MegaDots Manuals as Word Files

• Entire User Manual
• MegaDots Reference Manual
• MegaDots Interface Guide
• MegaDots 2.5 Command Summary

MegaDots Screen Colors

Normal Screen Colors, * means the color shifts with the color pallete changes

Name	Code	Text	Back	Sample
Normal Text		White *	Blue *	Sample
Highlight		Purple	Light Aqua	Sample
Italics	Ei	White	Purple	Sample
Bold	Ei	Bright White	Blue *	Sample
Bold/Italics (angled)	Ea	White	Purple	Sample
Underline	Eu	White	Light Green	Sample
Bold/Underline (dark)	Ed	Bright White	Light Green	Sample
Transcriber's Note	Et	Light Blue	Blue *	Sample
Note Text (markup)	En	White	Light Red	Sample
Note Text (WYSIWYG)	En	Green	Black	Sample
Guide Text	Eg	Purple	Blue *	Sample
Math (markup)	TM	Light Blue	Blue *	Sample
Grade One	TO	Green *	Blue *	Sample
Grade Two	TT	Green *	Blue *	Sample
Exact	TX	Yellow	Light Aqua	Sample
CBC	TC	Yellow	Blue	Sample
Diacritics	TD	Yellow	Blue	Sample

Useful links

• Excellent red background for use with MegaDots in a window right click on the image and select "Set as Background". If MegaDots is the only Window open, the background helps avoid distractions if you cannot run in full screen.
• TameDOS, a low cost software product that can help the MegaDots Editor (you still need a non-Tame DOS configuration to do things like emboss through Windows).

Contact Information

Check out our extensive website! Live Duxbury Systems Web Site

• Duxbury Systems, Inc., 270 Littleton Road #6, Westford, MA 01886
• voice: +1-978-692-3000
• fax: +1-978-692-7912
• MegaDots technical support
• General Inquiries