You will loose that functionality unless you become used to doing without it. I hope open office can improve in this regard.
----- 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: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:29 PM Subject: Re: word processing wasRe: continuous reading ofadocumentinopenoffice with voiceover right, but it seems like I'll be losing a lot of functionality because I won't be able to read complex documents continuously. is that correct? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:59 AM Subject: Re: word processing wasRe: continuous reading of adocumentinopenoffice with voiceover >I guess I wasn't clear. Text edit provides a better over all experience > than does JAWS because the pitch does not drop as you read continuously. > > ----- 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: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:15 AM > Subject: Re: word processing wasRe: continuous reading of a > documentinopenoffice with voiceover > > > could you clarify this a bit? exactly what functionality would i not be > getting? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:29 AM > Subject: Re: word processing wasRe: continuous reading of a document > inopenoffice with voiceover > > >> 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? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > >
