Howdy, OpenOffice does indeed do a pretty good job of that sort of thing. There are a number of programs which can read MS Word files from the console, such as wv. As for preparing nice-looking documents, you can use LateX, or similar. The problem with Word documents is that a lot of times the formatting in them is only really essential to a sighted person, and sometimes not even to them. The content of the document itself is more important than what it looks like. If you'd like to use OpenOffice, though, Orca for Gnome has scripted the Writer program pretty extensively, as well as the spreadsheet. Hope this helps, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:01 AM Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide I've used only the console in Linux so far, and would be glad to keep doing it. I know of no text-based way to use OpenOffice or any of its components, though, or to do what it does. I'm told it t does a pretty good job of reading documents produced by Microshaft Office programs, and of creating documents that those programs can read. That can be important. If I'm mistaken about the lack of such text-based access, I'd be grateful for correction. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cleverson" <clever92000@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:43 PM Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide Hi Zack, In fact, I don't know if the term "desktop" aplies to people who prefer command line programs rather than graphical ones, but I really think there is no reason to use a graphical environment, since text mode is faster and I think there are console programs for any task. For blind users, perhaps the only difference is that in text mode you should memorize some command strings instead of key strokes. Nothing's hard, to me at least... Cheers, Cleverson "Be realistic; ask for the impossible." _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor op??o para voc?! Experimente j? e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.413 / Virus Database: 268.18.7 - Release Date: 3/4/2007 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
