What's new in v-2.0? Speakup now tracks the cursor properly in many editors and programs. Synthesizer drivers have been modularized and it is now posible to change synthesizers without rebooting by echoing the synthesizer abbreviation to /proc/speakup/synth_name. Several new keystrokes have been added. The speakup key with 1 and 2 on the number row decrease and increase the level of punctuation to be spoken (0=none 1=some 2=most 3=all). The speakup key with 3 and 4 from the number row decrease and increase the punctuation level used when reviewing the screen with speakup's review cursor. Use speakup+5 and speakup+6 to decrease and increase the speech rate and finally speakup+7 and speakup+8 to change voices on your synthesizer. There is now support for a window which can be set using speakup+f1 at the top left and bottum right of the area. Speakup+f2 clears this window and speakup+f3 toggles it between silent and normal. Speakup+f4 says the contents of the currently defined window. Speakup+f5 and speakup+f6 allow you to choose what punctuation will be spoken in some and most punctuation levels. After pressing either of these pressing any character will add or remove it from that set of punctuation. You will hear speakup say the character you have entered followed by on or off. Press the character again to toggle it. Speakup+f7 adds and removes characters from speakup's delimeters list. These are characters that act like word boundaries when reading. They are set the same as the punctuation levels. Finally speakup+f8 adds or removes characters from speakups repeat list. If a character is turned on speakup will tell you how many times it occurs, but if it is off speakup will say the character the first three times and that is all. Setting the contents of this list is the same as above. Lastly speakup+pageup and speakup+pagedown (on the six pack) move the speakup review cursor to the beginning and end of the text on the current line respectively. This is useful for using the cut and paste feature and it replaces the ctrl+keypad1 move to end command. Please help me fill in and correct this if you find errors. Speakup is under ongoing development right now, meaning Kirk is off squashing bugs as I write this, so everything is subject to change. -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD
