Janina, Have you noticed that pressing "say_line" twice in rapid succession will do what you ask? or nearly so? Chuck On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > Speaking as one who has recently (and with trepidation) cracked a Python > book or two: > > Might Speakup be more helpful regarding white space at the beginning of > a line? Those who know about such things will immediately recognize that > this kind of information is critical in languages like Python. > > I would suggest two ways to get useful data like this. Either or both > would do the trick, I'm sure. > > 1.) A configurable toggle to announce, in a different pitched voice, > the number of white space elements at the beginning of a line. So, for > two tab chars it would say "two," and for 4 spaces (ASCII 32) it would > say "four." I believe asap for DOS did something like this. > > 2.) A togglable configuration feature that beeps the speaker. So, 2 > tabs would yield two beeps. This would probably be less valuable in > circumstances where there are many white space chars -- 8 beeps for 8 > spaces might be less helpful, in other words. > > What'ch'ya think, Kirk? > > Yes, yes, I know. I should be able to just send you a patch. But, I'm > just beginning to crack the books! <grin> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (23% of Full) Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074
