Suzanne, if I recall correctly you posted this sometime back and you have
reminded me of that. I have saved your note and will take a look and see
what comes of making these changes and additions. It seems to me that h-j
would like to create a wizzard for this among other things. Thanks.
At 12:39 PM 2/6/99 EST, you wrote:
>Hello Randy, The text below comes from a message you posted to the JFW list
>last night or early this morning.
>
>Now, as far as changing synthesizer rate and speed for applications I think
>there is a way to do this but it isn't this simple. I can't remember how
to do
>it but maybe someone will post it.
>
>You are right, it is not a simple procedure. That is the first time you do
>it. It gets much easier after you have laid the initial groundwork. Below
>the stars, you will find step by step instructions. I will post them to the
>list if it seems that their is much interest.
>I hope this helps you out,
>Suzanne Tritten
>
>***
>
>
>I have slowed down speech for all of my help files by creating specific
>synthesizer settingsfor Winhlp32.exe. Here is how it is done.
>Laying the ground work
>1. Open Notepad and press Alt+F followed by O to open the Open dialog box.
>2. In the file named field, type C:\jfw32\jfw.ini and press enter.
>3. Read this file to learn the short names for your particular
>synthesizer(s). Take note of the name or names.
>4. Close and re-open Notepad and re-open the Open dialog box.
>5. In the file named field, type C:\jfw32\settings\enu\default.jcf and
>press enter.
>6. Press Alt+S followed by enter to open the find dialog box.
>7. In the find what field, type the short name for your primary
>synthesizer, then press enter.
>8. When JFW says your synth's short name, press escape to close the Find
>dialog box.
>9. Use the Say Line command to confirm that JFW has placed you on a line that
>says the synth's short name followed by GlobalContext.
>10. There is an exception to this, however. If you choose Eloquence, the
>first line for that section is Eloq followed by ErrorContext. I do not
>understand the lack of uniformity.
>Special note: You are in an area of the Difault.jcf file that contains
>settings for Global, error, keyboard, screen, PC Cursor, and JAWS Cursor
>voices for your synthesizer. These settings are speed, pitch, volume,
>punctuation, upper case, parent, voice name, and language.
>10. You will begin selecting text at this point. You may safely press
>Shift+Pagedown once to quickly select the first portion of the text. After
>that you will need to select the text line by line until you have reached the
>language setting for the JAWS Cursor.
>11. Press Control+C to copy the text to the clipboard.
>12. If you are going to use only one synthesizer with the application in
>mind, close the default file. If you want to add another synthesizer,
>minimize the file.
>13. Open Notepad again and paste the selected text from the default file
into
>it.
>14. If this is as far as you need to go, save and close the file. (The
name I
>gave the file was SynthSet.txt.) If you have more information to add, save
>and minimize this file. Return to the Default file, press control+Home, and
>repeat steps six through fourteen as many times as needed.
>Note: If you have two or more synthesizers, but you provide settings for
only
>one in the new JCF file, JFW will resort to the default settings if you
access
>the application with any other synthesizer.
>
>You need one other piece of information before continuing. it is the name of
>the jcf file for the application whose synth settings you wish to alter.
>To learn this, follow these steps.
>1. Open the program to which the changes are to be applied.
>2. Press Insert+Q. If you hear something like, "WPWin8 settings are
>loaded, the application currently being used is WpWin8.exe." You will be
>interested in WPWin8.jcf. If JFW informs you that default settings are
>loaded, a JCF file will need to be created. This is simple to do.
>3. Press Insert+#6 to open the Configuration Manager.
>4. Make a change to a default setting. (I generally change Graphics
>verbosity from say all to say labeled.)
>5. Save the file, close the Configuration Manager, and close the
>application.
>Now all of the initial work has been done. I realize this seems a bit
>lengthy, but I am pleased with the results.
>
>Creating the new synth settings
>Note: I have chosen the following method for performing this task,
because it
>allows me to keep a copy of my original settings saved in a text file which
>can be accessed quickly should I ever want to add synth settings to any other
>application.
>
>1. Open Notepad.
>2. Open the synth settings file you created.
>3. Press Alt+E followed by A to select the contents of the file.
>4. Press Control+C to copy to the clipboard.
>5. Close and re-open Notepad.
>6. Open the JCF file you want to modify.
>7. Press Control+End to move to the end of the file. Confirm that you
are on
>a blank line.
>8. Press Control+V to paste the synth settings information into this file.
>9. You can now edit any of the settings by changing the information
>following equals.
>One note of caution. You need to be aware of the minimum and maximum number
>allowed for incremental settings.
>10. When the changes have been made, close the file and save the changes.
>
>
>
>
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
Randy Stegall
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