-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/04 10:37 AM +1100, Sean Murphy wrote: > Hi All. > > I am planning to write a User Guide for Speakup. In order to do this, I > need to know some information which I haven't found at this point of > time.The document that I am planning to write isn't on installing, updating, > running the CVS, etc. Its whole focus is on how to use the commands within > Speakup. Cool, I have tried to write a howto style document for speakup version 2.? but various things have kept me from devoting much attension to it lately. I will make what there currently is of the rather sadly lacking howto available for your use at http://tomass.dyndns.org/~stivers_t/Speakup-HOWTO.html or you can replace html with xml or txt to get those versions. If you or anyone else wants to take up the torch I dropped before the barn burns feel free, but hopefully I will be able to work on more of my preferred projects this summer. > 1. What do the different punctuation numbers mean? EG: What 4 means when > you change the read punctuation. 0 == none (no punctuation 1 == some (the characters in /proc/speakup/punc_some) 2 == most (the characters in /proc/speakup/punc_most) 3 == all (characters in /proc/speakup/punc_all) 4 == *really* all (all punctuation and extended ASCII characters) Somebody who knows more please correct me if this is wrong. > 2. In some DOS and window screen readers, it is possible to set-up a window > to monitor a spefic area of the screen. This window would have several > properties associated with it. That is, silent (don't speak anything), > Speak when x colour is seen, speak when text change, etc. Is this possible > in speakup? I think a little of this functionality is built in. You can define the start and end of a window area with speakup+f2 by moving the speakup cursor there, and you can set that window to silent, but I don't know about the rest of what you asked above. > 3. If you use the shift + pageup command to scroll your console back a > screen, I don't find that Speakup is reading that new information. I only > am seeing the information that is visible. I haven't the foggiest. > 4. How do you make settings become your defaults? EG: speech rate, > punctuation, etc? In the drivers/char/speakup tree after you checkout speakup from cvs there is a script called speakupconf. When run as a normal user with the save parameter it saves your current speakup settings to the .speakup directory in your $HOME. When you run it as root it saves the settings to the /etc/speakup directory. When you run it with load the settings are loaded back into /proc/speakup. One way to do it at boot up is to put a script that runs speakupconf load in a file called /etc/init.d/speakup and then create a symbolic link to it in /etc/rcx.d/S10speakup. I have gotten this to work on Debian and Redhat, but I think the runlevel (the x above) is different on Redhat than on Debian. > I am only in the early stages of this proposed project, so any help would be > welcomed. I will be searching the archieves to gain information. If I > cannot find the information their, then I will of course ask the experts on > this lists. Good luck. - -- Clarke's Corollary: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAPVOA5JK61UXLur0RAgTeAJwMHbxJpDRuuvaoHAFrwV0JNcgNeQCdFMMB m7tqeWVPCCFAT57mBPgdpoE= =AQ25 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
