At this time it is not possible as far as I know but I've gotten by
with textedit and my document requirements aren't as complex as yours
may be. I have found in the past though that continuous reading of
complicated data didn't serve me as I seemed to like to go through it
in smaller sections for digestion's sake:). We are working to raise
the bar on these issues with developers and are optimistic that a
solution will arrive... perhaps though not in time for yourself to
make the switch yet.
On 25-Nov-08, at 7:29 PM, Tasha Raella Chemel wrote:
right, but it seems like I'll be losing a lot of functionality
because I won't be able to read complex documents continuously. is
that correct?
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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.
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could you clarify this a bit? exactly what functionality would i
not be
getting?
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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]
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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]
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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?
