What does it mean "debian package for emacspeak 15"? It includes emacspeak in the default installation? It uses emacspeak during the installation? At 01:55 AM 3/11/02 +0100, you wrote: >---------- 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 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- John G. Heim WiscINFO Customer Service Coordinator Division of Information Technology jheim@doit.wisc.edu 608-262-9887