Hi Harish

Thank you for telling me about INS+Z. I din't know that Jaws had this 
feature of actually turning the virtual PC cursor off.

For your success
Syed Imran
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harish Kotian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] page breaks with jaws.


> Hi Syed
> A simpler way is to close the virtual mode by pressing Insert + z.
> Thereafter ctrl + a and Ctrl+c should also work as it is not picked from 
> the
> virtual buffer.
> Harish.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Syed Imran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [AI] page breaks with jaws.
>
>
>> Hi Moiz
>>
>> Your issue really interests me and kindles my curiocity. Are you running
>> Windows XP? If not, no problem.
>> Just try this and let us know
>>
>> 1. Login to the site where you want to copy the journals from and quit
>> Jaws.
>> 2. Open run diolog box (Windows+R) and type narrator then push enter
>> You should hear an old man speaking. This is called "Narrator". It is a
>> screen-reading software comes with Windows XP.
>> 3. Using Alt+TAB, move to your internet explorer window which you already
>> have opened
>> Making sure that your Jaws is inactive,
>> 4. Press ctrl +A and CTRL+C
>> 5. Start Jaws and quit Narrator.
>> 6. Now paste it in Microsoft Word and let us know the result.
>> I think you can try repairing Microsoft Internet Explorer if it doesn't
>> work
>> Meanwhile, It would be bit easier if we were to know the website your
>> collecting the journals from. Is it www.thehindu.com?
>>
>> For your success
>> Syed Imran
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "moiz tundawalla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AI] page breaks with jaws.
>>
>>
>>> Hello sir.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation.
>>> Well I have been doing the same thing. It isnt wworking. I managed to
>>> exactly copy a page from the Hindu's website to ms word. But the
>>> journals that I am looking at...strangely enough...its not happening.
>>> Pulling down the edit menu, typing A for the select all command...this
>>> is what I did but the thing is not getting selected.
>>> Now does i.e. have different standards for different pages or what.
>>> I'm clueless.
>>> Using another brouzer can be tried as an option. But with all that was
>>> said about virtualization, do you still think it'll make any
>>> difference?
>>> Moiz.
>>>
>>> Message: 11
>>> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:34:13 +0530
>>> From: "Syed Imran" <
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [AI] page breaks and jaws.
>>> To: <
>>> [email protected]>
>>>
>>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>>
>>> Hello Moiz and my dear list members,
>>>
>>> This is a lengthy E-mail. I like to share my technique of copying any
>>> data
>>> from web pages in its original  format including tables and hyperlinks. 
>>> I
>>> assure you that if you perform these operations correctly, you can copy
>>> the
>>> exact data appearing  on the screen. I further make myself clear to you
>>> that
>>> the copied data will be free from line-breaks and page-breaks. So I hope
>>> you
>>> don't mind spending some of your time with me to read this mail
>>> carefully.
>>> Before telling you how to copy, I want to make you aware of a curious
>>> technology which Freedomscientific is using in order to make web
>>> documents
>>> accessible by using something called "Virtual PC cursor". The virtual PC
>>> cursor performs the function of copying and differentiating headings,
>>> links,
>>> formfields, and other such elements on a web page. This is called
>>> "Virtualising". Virtualising includes finding out the different elements
>>> on
>>> a web page, layout of tables, etc and making these elements appear in a
>>> seperate line. The text we read using jaws in a web page is not what a
>>> sighted person reads on the screen. Let me make it easy to understand by
>>> an
>>> example.
>>> I have given a paragraph in 2 different illustrations as to show how
>>> exactly
>>> a paragraph with links might appear on the screen and how Jaws reads for
>>> us.
>>> I think it is necessary for us to know how virtual viewer works, to
>>> understand why line breaks appear when we copy any data from Internet
>>> explorer
>>>
>>> I) Illustration 1 How does a web page appear on the screen? (not
>>> virtualised)
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> The process of pickling fruits and vegetables:
>>>
>>> Some LINK fruits and LINK vegetables preserved by pickling. The
>>> fruit/vegetable washed and dried. Then it is cut into pieces and enough
>>> salt
>>> is added. These pieces are kept in the sun. LINK Oil and LINK spices are
>>> added. The pickle
>>> are stored in a LINK dry jar with a tight lid. A dry spoon is used to
>>> stir
>>> and take the pickle from the jar. The pickle will spoil if a wet spoon 
>>> is
>>> used.
>>>
>>> In this illustration, you can observe jaws saying "Link" in the middle 
>>> of
>>> the line. I think this is how a "link" element appears on the screen.
>>> But whenever Jaws encounters any links in a web page, it breaks the line
>>> to
>>> present them in a separate line as to make more accessible and also to 
>>> an
>>> extent, save the time of the readers. Let me try to give an idea about
>>> the
>>> same in the 2nd illustration:
>>> ii) Illustration 2 How does Jaws virtualise the content? (virtualised)
>>>
>>> The process of pickling fruits and vegetables:
>>>
>>> Some
>>> LINK      fruits and
>>> LINK      vegetables
>>> preserved by pickling. The fruit/vegetable washed and dried. Then it is
>>> cut
>>> into pieces and enough salt
>>> is added. These pieces are kept in the sun.
>>> LINK          Oil
>>> and
>>> LINK         spices are added. The pickle are stored in a
>>> Link      dry jar
>>> with a tight lid. A dry spoon is used to stir and take the pickle from
>>> the
>>> jar. The pickle will spoil if a wet spoon is used.
>>>
>>> ------------
>>>
>>> So this is how Jaws arranges the data in the web page after 
>>> virtualising.
>>> However, when you copy this text to Microsoft Word, you will observe the
>>> text broken something like this:
>>>
>>> Some
>>> fruits and
>>> vegetables
>>> Instead of:
>>> Some fruits and vegetables
>>> We can surely remove the line breaks by pressing CTRL+downarrow and then
>>> back space followed by space bar as Vetry said, but it takes lot of 
>>> time.
>>> Especially the lengthy documents. So when you want to copy anything from
>>> internet explorer, don't use selecting keys like Shift+downarrow, or
>>> ctrl+A
>>> to select the text. follow these simple steps exactly to copy the exact
>>> information without line or page breaks.
>>>
>>> 1. Open the web page from which you want to copy
>>>
>>> 2. Press Alt+E to pull down edit menu.
>>>
>>> 3. Choose "Select all," by pressing A.
>>> We can't press CTRL+A directly instead of pulling down edit menu because
>>> Jaws will select from its virtual buffer. And I think Moiz, this could 
>>> be
>>> the cause of your problem.
>>>
>>> 4. Again pull down the edit menu (Alt E) and choose copy by pressing C.
>>> Now what actually happens is that when you select all and copy from the
>>> edit
>>> menu, the data gets directly copied from Internet explorer and not from
>>> Jaws
>>> virtual buffer.
>>>
>>> 5. Open Microsoft word with a new document.
>>>
>>> 6. Paste whatever is copied from internet.
>>> This will paste the entire web page in your new documents including
>>> pictures, tables, links etc.
>>>
>>> 7. Keep whatever you want and delete unnecessary stuff.
>>>
>>> Some tips:
>>>
>>> 1. If you don't want pictures, tables and  links, then paste it in
>>> notepad
>>> and then copy it to Microsoft word
>>>
>>> 2. However if you want tables, then paste it in wordpad and  after
>>> selecting
>>> the pasted text, copy it to Microsoft word.
>>>
>>> 3. If you suspect that there are hyperlinks still in the edited 
>>> document,
>>> press CTRL+A and press CTRL+SHIFT+F9 to clear the hyperlink attribute
>>> from
>>> the entire document.
>>>
>>> I am still searching for some easier way to copy from web pages and will
>>> be
>>> thankful  if anyone could help in this regard.
>>>
>>> For your success
>>>
>>> Syed Imran
>>>
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