You take a numeric keypad with you and plug it into the ps2 mouse port. I do this with my IBM Thinkpad. Better still would be to build a pop-up keypad for the Thinkpad, which could actually be done, but I haven't worked on this yet. One could do it with speakup's character encodings. On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Charles Crawford wrote: > Linus on laptops is intersting. How do you get speakup to work when there > is no mumber pad? > > -- charlie. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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