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From: Justin C on 30 Jun 2010 08:22 On 2010-06-29, Justin C <justin.0911(a)purestblue.com> wrote: > > Got fed up waiting ages to be served in Gregg's today so I pushed past > the queue and while the staff were serving at the other end of the > counter I helped myself to two baked meat savouries and walked out the > back. Nary a word was said. Jeebus H. Christmas. What did I do?! I attempt a little humour and WWIII breaks out. I apologise to those affected by the fallout. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea.
From: James Jolley on 30 Jun 2010 08:27 On 2010-06-30 13:26:22 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> said: > On 2010-06-30, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >> No, only for the obvious types of things like UCSM it'll read as "U C S >> M" but actual words. I can set it to indicate caps but then you'd have >> rather a lot of unneeded speech. > > Does it do anything for words surrounded by stars? Like *this* ? > > (the word 'this' above was surrounded by stars) > > Jim Yes that works and things with underscores in them like I _hate_ Windows will speak the punctuation.
From: Chris Ridd on 30 Jun 2010 08:29 On 2010-06-30 11:46:22 +0100, James Jolley said: > On 2010-06-30 11:41:53 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: >> >> I think Ben's particularly talking about the threads where you and >> Rowland argue. He's right - they are spectacularly worthless. You're >> making things worse - please killfile Rowland and get on with life! > > So it's me that makes things worse then? Don't any of you see how he is > using blindness as an excuse to throw digs in at every turn? "Do you > think because you are blind....." that kind of thing? No, because he's in my killfile and I simply don't see anything he posts. All I see is the pointless responses to him. -- Chris
From: Jim on 30 Jun 2010 08:33 On 2010-06-30, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >>> No, only for the obvious types of things like UCSM it'll read as "U C S >>> M" but actual words. I can set it to indicate caps but then you'd have >>> rather a lot of unneeded speech. >> >> Does it do anything for words surrounded by stars? Like *this* ? >> >> (the word 'this' above was surrounded by stars) >> >> Jim > > Yes that works and things with underscores in them like I _hate_ > Windows will speak the punctuation. Aha! Good to know, thanks. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Chris Ridd on 30 Jun 2010 08:32
On 2010-06-30 13:33:01 +0100, Jim said: > On 2010-06-30, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >>>> No, only for the obvious types of things like UCSM it'll read as "U C S >>>> M" but actual words. I can set it to indicate caps but then you'd have >>>> rather a lot of unneeded speech. >>> >>> Does it do anything for words surrounded by stars? Like *this* ? >>> >>> (the word 'this' above was surrounded by stars) >>> >>> Jim >> >> Yes that works and things with underscores in them like I _hate_ >> Windows will speak the punctuation. > > Aha! Good to know, thanks. That's a pretty cool feature. Can it cope with /italics/ as well? -- Chris |