Re: Voice Over and ligatures

2017-11-13 Thread E.T.
James, Have you changed voices to see if this corrects the problem? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail:

Re: Voice Over and ligatures

2017-11-13 Thread James AUSTIN
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

Re: Voice Over and ligatures

2017-11-12 Thread Anne Robertson
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

Voice Over and ligatures

2017-11-12 Thread James AUSTIN
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.