You can get a lot more functionality from text edit. One thing you don't get with voice over is the pitch dropping to 0 and then going back up again. But, at this time, there is no way to do what you are looking for that I know of.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tasha Raella Chemel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:39 PM Subject: word processing wasRe: continuous reading of a document in openoffice with voiceover hi list, am still contemplating the switch to mac, but i was a bit discouraged by the below message. from what i've read, it looks like in open office, there is no way to read a complex document with tables and things using continuous reading and that in order to read continuously, I must turn any document to plain text. is this accurate? are there other word processing programs (i.e. ms office for example) where I can work with complex documents, use one command to read continuously and be able to start and stop where i left off, and get information about formatting atributes, such as font, bold/italics etc, and indents and spacing. In other words, will I be able to have the same level of functionality as I do with jaws? thanks, tasha ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:55 PM Subject: Re: continuous reading of a document in open office with voiceover > Apple has a built in function to read selected text. If you canselect > the entire ocument, under the menu of open office litterally, there is a > services menu. In that submenu is a speech menu. that menu has start > and stop speaking in it. click start speaking and the system voice wil > begin speaking the highlighted text. Click stop speaking and it stops > but there is o way to control it beyond that for instance, when you click > start again, it starts from the beginning. > > Another way to do this is to save the document and open it in text edit > and use control-option-a to read continuously but your milage will vary > with document structure complexity. You can mittigate this by setting > the document to plain text. > > > On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: > > Hello list, I have quite a bit of research to read and I am wondering if > there is any way possible to have voice over read continuously through > the document in open office without having to constantly use command > option down arrow and at the end of each page click next page? > > > >
