---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 16:06:34 -0500 (EST) From: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> Subject: Debian package emacspeak_15-3.deb I am uploading a new Debian package for emacspeak 15. I have changed the load-path settings, so the compiled version appears before the source. This should speed both startup and operation. This package is in the "unstable" Debian distribution. The next Debian release still looks to be several months away. If you have problems with this package, please submit bug reports so I can fix them before the release. Eventually, you should be able to find the new package here in any Debian mirror site: pool/main/e/emacspeak/emacspeak_15-3.deb In the mean time, it is also at my web site: http://www.mv.com/ipusers/vanzandt/ and at the blinux ftp site. The latest changelog.Debian entries and the README.debian file for the emacspeak package are attached. - Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> emacspeak (15-3) unstable; urgency=low * debian/rules: install xsl directory (thanks to Dimitry Paduchih <paduch@imm.uran.ru>) * lisp/emacspeak-setup: add emacspeak-lisp-directory to end of load-path instead of beginning, and only if "emacspeak" can't be found by load-library. * debian/control: build-depend on texi2html and lynx * debian/control: suggest xsltproc (thanks to Dimitry Paduchih <paduch@imm.uran.ru>) -- James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org> Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:01:11 -0500 emacspeak (15-2) unstable; urgency=low * debian/rules: compile emacspeak-rpm.el and regexp-opt.el -- James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org> Tue, 25 Dec 2001 15:47:29 -0500 emacspeak (15-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release * no longer need to adjust emacspeak-load-path.el or emacspeak-setup.el * omit /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/realaudio/.cvsignore * remove patch from emacspeak-advice.el * ignore reference to missing "add-css.pl" while building html docs -- James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org> Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:13:20 -0500 emacspeak (14-4) unstable; urgency=low * debian/control: emacs21 will satisfy emacs dependency (thanks to Saqib Shaikh <ss@saqibshaikh.com>) -- James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org> Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:49:42 -0500 emacspeak (14-3) unstable; urgency=low * debian/control: just plain "perl" will satisfy dependency (closes:bug#113215) * debian/control: tclx8.3 will satisfy the tclx dependency. emacspeak for DEBIAN ---------------------- Emacspeak is authored by T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu>. These are the primary changes made in building the Debian package: html and plain text versions of the documentation were added. A configuration script (/usr/sbin/emacspeakconfig) and associated speech server descriptions (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/blurbs/*) were added. Manual pages for emacspeak and the configuration script were added. Minor changes are listed in changelog.Debian. Starting with version 11.0, the Emacspeak sources include a speech server written in C++ for the IBM ViaVoice speech synthesis software. However, it depends on the ViaVoice runtime kit which does not meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines. (It is available only as object code, and only under a temporary license.) Therefore, support for ViaVoice is not included in this Debian package. IBM is making beta copies of ViaVoice for i386 available without charge. If you would like to try it, you can find some information at http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/ttssdk_linux.html and download from http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/viavoice/linux-p. You need two files - the software developer kit and the run time kit. They come in the form of two tar files which in turn contain RPM files. You can convert these to Debian packages and install them as follows: tar -xf viavoice_tts_rtk_5.tar tar -xf viavoice_tts_sdk_5.tar fakeroot alien -d ViaVoice_TTS_rtk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm fakeroot alien -d ViaVoice_TTS_sdk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm dpkg -i --force-overwrite viavoice-tts-rtk_5.1-2.2_i386.deb \ viavoice-tts-sdk_5.1-2.2_i386.deb (The last step must be performed as root. If you run alien as root, you may omit the use of fakeroot. The --force-overwrite flag is necessary because several files appear in both packages.) At this point, please read /usr/doc/ViaVoiceTTS/ttssd.lic.la.txt.gz, /usr/doc/ViaVoiceTTS/ttsrt.lic.ila.txt.gz, and /usr/doc/ViaVoiceTTS/ttsrt.lic.ila.eval.txt.gz and decide whether you can accept the terms of the IBM license. If so, you can then unpack the Emacspeak sources (either from debian/dists/stable/main/source/editors/emacspeak_*.0.orig.tar.gz on a cdrom or a Debian archive mirror, or else from ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/raman/emacspeak/) and follow the instructions in linux-outloud/NOTES to build and install the speech server. Starting with version 10.0, Dr. Raman has rewritten the documentation files. Approximately 100 commands are described there, compared to over 800 in the documentation shipped with the previous release. Therefore, the user should pay particular attention to the section "Using Online Help". Many command-line applications can be run under emacs, and can therefore be made accessible with emacspeak. Much of this is explained in the documentation entitled "Running Terminal Based Applications". However, it is worth emphasizing this point: "For regular shell interaction just use M-x shell instead of using the terminal emulator." The example file "tables.html" was supplied by Dr. Raman in a separate email. It may be found in /usr/doc/emacspeak/examples. It includes a sample table with three columns (labeled "item", "date", and "amount"), and three rows. For a discussion of the support for tables in emacspeak and w3, see NEWS (or NEWS.gz) in /usr/doc/emacspeak. The Emacspeak-HOWTO contains additional documentation. The plain text form of this can be found in the Debian package doc-linux, and is installed as /usr/doc/HOWTO/Emacspeak-HOWTO.gz. Other formats are also available. For example, these can be found at sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/dvi/Emacspeak-HOWTO.dvi.gz /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html/Emacspeak-HOWTO-html.tar.gz /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/ps/Emacspeak-HOWTO.ps.gz /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/sgml/Emacspeak-HOWTO.sgml.gz There is also an Emacspeak mailing list. To subscribe, send a message to: emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu with a subject of: subscribe James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>, Mon, 17 May 1999 20:12:46 -0400