This is very good. Any idea when the release will be stable? -- charlie. At 11:54 AM 5/10/03 -0500, you wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
