I guess I wasn't clear. Text edit provides a better over all experience than does JAWS because the pitch does not drop as you read continuously.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tasha Raella Chemel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:15 AM Subject: Re: word processing wasRe: continuous reading of a documentinopenoffice with voiceover could you clarify this a bit? exactly what functionality would i not be getting? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:29 AM Subject: Re: word processing wasRe: continuous reading of a document inopenoffice with voiceover > You can get a lot more functionality from text edit. One thing you don't > get with voice over is the pitch dropping to 0 and then going back up > again. > But, at this time, there is no way to do what you are looking for that I > know of. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tasha Raella Chemel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:39 PM > Subject: word processing wasRe: continuous reading of a document in > openoffice with voiceover > > > hi list, am still contemplating the switch to mac, but i was a bit > discouraged by the below message. from what i've read, it looks like in > open > office, there is no way to read a complex document with tables and things > using continuous reading and that in order to read continuously, I must > turn > any document to plain text. is this accurate? are there other word > processing programs (i.e. ms office for example) where I can work with > complex documents, use one command to read continuously and be able to > start > and stop where i left off, and get information about formatting atributes, > such as font, bold/italics etc, and indents and spacing. In other words, > will I be able to have the same level of functionality as I do with jaws? > thanks, > tasha > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:55 PM > Subject: Re: continuous reading of a document in open office with > voiceover > > >> Apple has a built in function to read selected text. If you canselect >> the entire ocument, under the menu of open office litterally, there is a >> services menu. In that submenu is a speech menu. that menu has start >> and stop speaking in it. click start speaking and the system voice wil >> begin speaking the highlighted text. Click stop speaking and it stops >> but there is o way to control it beyond that for instance, when you >> click >> start again, it starts from the beginning. >> >> Another way to do this is to save the document and open it in text edit >> and use control-option-a to read continuously but your milage will vary >> with document structure complexity. You can mittigate this by setting >> the document to plain text. >> >> >> On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: >> >> Hello list, I have quite a bit of research to read and I am wondering if >> there is any way possible to have voice over read continuously through >> the document in open office without having to constantly use command >> option down arrow and at the end of each page click next page? >> >> >> >> > > > > >
