Dear Tasha,
My name is Ben King and I just switched to Voiceover from Jaws. I
would love to speak to you about it. You can call me at
509-939-6616. I hope you have a great Thanksgiving. But please do
call I would like to speak with you. Have a great day.
Blessings,
Ben
On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:15 AM, Tasha Raella Chemel wrote:
could you clarify this a bit? exactly what functionality would i
not be getting?
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
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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]
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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]
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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?
