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From: James Jolley on 30 Jun 2010 08:36 On 2010-06-30 13:32:15 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > 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? No it just reads "/italics/".
From: Peter Ceresole on 30 Jun 2010 08:36 Justin C <justin.0911(a)purestblue.com> wrote: > I attempt a little humour and WWIII breaks out. I apologise to those > affected by the fallout. It's okay, for those of us living in the suburbs of Hiroshima it's a fairly everyday experience. -- Peter
From: Chris Ridd on 30 Jun 2010 08:40 On 2010-06-30 13:36:09 +0100, James Jolley said: > On 2010-06-30 13:32:15 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > >> 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? > > No it just reads "/italics/". Oh well. Handling *bold* and _underlined_ is still pretty cool. -- Chris
From: James Jolley on 30 Jun 2010 08:53 On 2010-06-30 13:40:43 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > On 2010-06-30 13:36:09 +0100, James Jolley said: > >> On 2010-06-30 13:32:15 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: >> >>> 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? >> >> No it just reads "/italics/". > > Oh well. Handling *bold* and _underlined_ is still pretty cool. > It'll describe italicised text if you're using the fonts in textedit or > other wordprocessors.
From: D.M. Procida on 30 Jun 2010 08:58
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >It's ANYONE arguing (completely pointlessly) with Rowland that makes > >things worse. It's killing the group, frankly. > > Hey, that raises a question: James, does your reader indicate emphasis > when words are capitalised? I "shouted" in caps the words no and > anyone above, but just realised it may not be noted at all by you! Typically capitalised words will be spelled out, though some assistive software may have dictionaries of acronyms or choose to read out what it thinks are normal words. Daniele |