You can still buy the doubletalk lt from rc systems for $200 ----- Original Message ----- From: "josh" <jkenn337@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:19 PM Subject: Re: 4DOS > Hi, > > How much can you get an external doubletalk for these days? or an artic or > accent synth? > > email: jkenn337 at gmail.com > skype: jkenn337 > msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:13 PM > Subject: Re: 4DOS > > >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:32:57PM -0500, Doug Smith wrote: >>> What I want to do is to write a science fi???tion story series, put up a >>> web site, and publish this story series for sale. However, I don't >>> want to have to do it with a text editor. I want real word processing >>> software to do it with. >> :End-Quote: >> >> Have you tried contacting ExLibris? They will often take on new >> authors and publish their works on the web, rather than going through >> the trouble of running off a full-fledged printing that may or may not >> sell. As for jstar, it's likely only a text editor with WordStar key >> commands. Even WordStar professional used dot-commands to modify text >> attributes, since it wasn't a GUI word processor. You get the same >> effect by using tron/troff commands in a document in *nix. A couple >> keystrokes would hide or display those dot-commands, as well as the >> carriage returns at the end of each paragraph. WordStar Pro would just >> save each paragraph as a single line of text, but display it on-screen >> as being wrapped, as well as line text up on the right margin as well as >> the left, so it looked like your typical printed page. It did have a >> graphical print preview that would show you what the eventual printed >> page would look like though, but it was a CLI/text-only word processor. >> Since I barely have the GUI working on this thing, I can't tell >> you much more about the word processors in linux. Perhaps Open Office. >> Also, O'Reilly's tech manuals very closely match their HTML versions >> published on the web, so you might consider using HTML to format your >> text, rather than tron and troff. I never really got into the printing >> aspects of Linux. linuxprinting.org might have more info on the >> subject. HTH, >> >> Michael >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup