Hello Paul,

It's definitely a bug in Lion.

Cheers,

Anne


On 29 Nov 2011, at 22:52, Paul Erkens wrote:

> Dear listers,
> Before I start bugging Apple with what I think is a bug, I would like to ask 
> you listers about the following. I found the bug while working in Amadeus 
> pro. In this sound editor, for some reason, you have to enter time in a 
> strange way. Let's say I have a file open that is 30 minutes long, but I 
> would like to jump right to 10 minutes, 3 seconds and half a second more. So 
> 10 minutes, 3 seconds and 500 milliseconds. In Amadeus pro, I have to enter 
> this, using apostrophes as time separators, and 2 apostrophes to separate the 
> seconds from the milliseconds. Does this sound weird? I don't know why 
> amadeus wants me to use 2 apostrophes in a row, even though that works fine 
> if you obey, although this is not important for this voiceover bug, but here 
> I found something strange happen with voiceover.
> Here's the test. For ten minutes 3 seconds and 500 milliseconds, here's what 
> I type in inside amadeus pro. I'll type it literally, so let's see what your 
> voiceover says here.
> 10'3''500
> With my current voiceover punctuation set to some, I hear:
> ten, thirty nine one one five hundred. This is strange, because what I type 
> was:
> 1 0 apostrophe 3 apostrophe apostrophe 5 0 0.
> What the heck is happening here with voiceover? Where does that thirty nine 
> come from? I didn't type it, but if you omit the last apostrophe, so that the 
> 3 seconds are now only separated from the milliseconds by just one 
> apostrophe, then everything speaks just fine. In other words, try typing this.
> one zero apostrophe 3 apostrophe 5 0 0
> If you do this, then you hear what is on the screen. With 2 apostrophes in a 
> row though, voiceover screws up. Can anyone confirm this?
> 10'3'500 against 10'3''500.
> Isn't that interesting? Hmm. 
> 
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