Rich: Speakup is as easy as asap. Need I say more? The numeric keypad works the same way ... 7 8 9 read a line -- previous current next in that order, just as in asap. So, to answer you directly? How easy is to read the current line? It's as easy as pressing 8 on the numeric keypad. On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rich Caloggero wrote: > The one question I have, not being a speakup user myself, is how easy is it > to ask it to read the line or word that I'm on. For example, if I use the > arrow keys or whatever to read the screen in emacs under speakup and find a > place where I want to make a change. My cursor is in the correct place, but > I just want to hear some context now. Can I ask speakup to just read the > line the cursor is on, or even read the sentence or paragraph which contains > the cursor? I believe this is very different, and seems like an easier > problem to the one of automatically figuring out and then reading an item > after the cursor has been moved. > > Rich > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:59 AM > Subject: Re: No text editing??? > > > > Let me give a tad of clarification for the new and prospective speakup > > users. Speakup allows you to have full editing capabilities, at least > > as full as any text based application under gnu/Linux. > > > > I use emacs with speakup with absolutely no difficulty and am using it > > currently to write this note. I do not use emacspeak although I under > > stand it is a fine product. > > > > Now where some folks are complaining about speakups lack is in > > automatic cursor speaking. Speakup tracks the cursor perfectly and is > > pretty well always where your cursor is. What speakup does not do is > > automatically speak the line you are moving to. It does not > > automatically say the characters you are moving onto. It does track > > the cursor though. There is an experimental mode of cursor speaking > > in the cvs version of speakup which in some applications works as well > > as any screen review package. In other applications it doesn't work > > so well. > > > > I am only saying these things because it creates a false impression > > that somehow speakup is inferior and it just plain isn't. I would be > > very happy to have folks help with fixing this situation of automatic > > speaking. It is not a trivial problem to do correctly. It is also > > not that high on my priority list because I have no problem writing, > > coding, reading and editing with it the way it currently works. > > > > Kirk > > > > -- > > > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
