Well, William-and-All, since I am not a programmer, if Speakup did not handle these events, would I need to learn phonetics-and-program the DecTalk USB directly? In the 6years I've been on this list, I must have mentioned that as far as I know, the only Linux screen-readers which have an exception dictionary are Emacs Speak and Jupiter. I think practicly every single windows reader has one, I think including the free N V D A Also, in a perfect World, I would be great, such as Vocal-Eyes did in DOS, to have separate character and kek label dictionaries, so maybe you want to hear characters such as under-lines while arrowing, but not while reading. Thanks for listening Hart