Hi Anne Nice to speak with you again. Thank you for your suggestions. Admittedly the second one never occurred to me. :)
Thanks James PS - Feel free to write me of-list. It would be lovely to catch up if you'd like to. > On 13 Nov 2017, at 06:42, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > > Hello James, > > I haven’t encountered this problem but I have a couple of suggestions. > The first is to copy the content into either a Pages or TextEdit document and > do a few global changes to get rid of the ligatures. > The other is to see if you can do something with VoiceOver pronunciation in > the VoiceOver Utility. I mean, to copy the character for double-f and tell > VoiceOver to read it as two Fs. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > >> On 12 Nov 2017, at 13:48, James AUSTIN <james.londons...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi folks >> >> Is there a way of forcing Voice over to ignore the ligatures present in >> serif fonts like Times please? For those who may not know, ligatures are >> stylised letter combinations such as the 'double f' found in words like >> 'effort'. They are often italicised and joined together. Ligatures are, as >> far as i know, only found in fonts which use decorative letter stylings. >> Fonts including Arial do not use ornamentation. >> >> Voice over mispronounces such words because it does not know that the >> ligatures are present. This is often a problem with PDFs downloaded from >> academic repositories. While the PDFs are far from unreadable, it is >> inconvenient. I suspect that this is not possible without using OCR, but >> thought i would ask. >> >> Thanks >> Take care >> James >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: >> macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you >> can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
