What were your steps to setting up emacspeak?
-- Seth Hurst hurstseth...@gmail.com I was wondering what your steps were to get emacspeak up and working on debian jessie? I'm running under a vm for testing with a 29 gig harddrive and 512 mb of ram. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: Using sed to straighten quotes.
While it *can* be done in sed, the solution requires visiting every character and manually noting a transliteration, as well as doing those changes for every input encoding that you can You should have the `iconv` package on your system which will let you specify the input/output encodings as well as force those characters to be transliterated: iconv -f utf8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT input.txt > output.txt which converts from (-f) UTF-8 encoding to transliterated ASCII. If your input is some other Windows code-page or other source, you can change the "from" encoding to something other than "utf8" such as "cp1252". -tim On April 17, 2017, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > Things like left and right double curly quotes and single right > curly quotes are the most common offenders, which also screws up my > screen reader's pronunciation of contractions and possessive, > though things like ellipsis, em-dashes, and accented letters also > cause problems. > > Most of these problems can be fixed manually, though it means I > often spend as much time correcting the file as I do reading it. > > I know how to use sed to do global search and replace on plain text > files, at least where both the string to be found and the string > it's to be replaced with can be typed, but most of the replacements > I'd like to make have search strings containing characters not on my > keyboard. > > So, how do I tell sed to replace a left double curly quote with a > straight double quote, an ellipsis with three periods, or an e with > an acute accent with a normal e among other such things? And if > this is beyond sed's capabilities, could someone suggest another > command line tool that can automate this task? > > -- > Sincerely, > > Jeffery Wright > Bachelor of Computer Science > President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. > Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the > Albemarle. > > ___ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Using sed to straighten quotes.
I often convert various document formats to plain text because the conversion is generally easier than trying to navigate a program that can read the document in its original format. Problem is, even when the document is in English or another language that uses the Roman Alphabet, the converted .txt contains characters my text-mode screen reader can't read properly(pronouncing the character as "thorn") Things like left and right double curly quotes and single right curly quotes are the most common offenders, which also screws up my screen reader's pronunciation of contractions and possessive, though things like ellipsis, em-dashes, and accented letters also cause problems. Most of these problems can be fixed manually, though it means I often spend as much time correcting the file as I do reading it. I know how to use sed to do global search and replace on plain text files, at least where both the string to be found and the string it's to be replaced with can be typed, but most of the replacements I'd like to make have search strings containing characters not on my keyboard. So, how do I tell sed to replace a left double curly quote with a straight double quote, an ellipsis with three periods, or an e with an acute accent with a normal e among other such things? And if this is beyond sed's capabilities, could someone suggest another command line tool that can automate this task? -- Sincerely, Jeffery Wright Bachelor of Computer Science President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: spammers on this list
Suspect they got malware and are quite unaware what's happening in their name. I know this happens. Hope it isn't me, most these threads go over my head, so contribute next to nothing. BobH. - Original Message - From: "Karen Lewellen" To: ; "Linux for blind general discussion" Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017 2:33 AM Subject: Re: spammers on this list In fact it is hard to paint just what they are doing. I posted in this thread once. However, and keeping the same subject line, I get an e-mail from this person with each post it seems... in this thread I mean. Kare On Sat, 15 Apr 2017, John G. Heim wrote: > But this particular spammer isn't harvesting email addresses from the > archive. > > > > On 04/14/2017 10:31 PM, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: >> Considering that the list archives can be viewed by anyone at >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/blinux-list/ >> and be downloaded as gzipped plain text files that include the e-mail >> address from which each message was sent, I think it's fair to say >> there's next to nothing any list moderators could do to address spam, >> and unless an alternative list either lacks public archives or has >> archives that strip e-mail addresses from the from fields, it will be >> just as vulnerable to spambots. >> > > ___ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
