The Anatomy of a Template

To begin, you can think of a template as a skeleton for the document you are about to create. Templates contain a number of important settings and definitions which combine to produce the correct braille for a given language, braille authority, and often for a specific purpose, such as producing math.

The essential elements (configuration settings) of a template are:

In addition, customized templates can contain initial standard blocks of text ("boiler plate text") that regularly should appear in the documents that it is used for.

Also, when a template is opened and used for a document, the selected output device (braille embosser) and its configuration settings are copied into the document and saved along with the template and the document text.

For an inside view of a DBT template, you might look at the break-out done for the English UK Formatting template, here.