Len You say it so well. I went into the manual looking for something that used to be in section 7.29. Well, to my dismay, I discovered that the manual was a sad shrunken fragment of what it was even made worse by the overhaul of WE's physical presentation. This is no biggy for a new customer; but for someone who has spent years becoming comfortable with a program, it is very dishearteting and frustrating. The last thing I want to do is spend time mastering a screen reader over and over again; it is not what a screen reader is all about. Ideally, you use a screen reader and sort of forget about it. I have lost that comfort level with WE for the moment as a lot of the things I used to do as second-nature have to be forgotten and relearned -- and some things don't seem as straight forward. One was the ease of finding the synthesizer menu from the file menu by typing "y: when I had no speech; worked 95% of t he time whereas the more convoluted method of getting at it is more of a hit and miss proposition given that "d" can be for both dictionary and devices and then one must make the correct choice between braille and speech synthesizer. The other is the text to set and reverse discussed where I had a text file of changes which I could simply run each time we was upgrade or reinstalled or something went awry with the defaults.
I understand why the change in structure was made, but there either should be more backwards compatability or convenient approaches to get some things done too especially if users had been using them effectively. The text to set and reverse decompilation was one of those that could have easily been incorporated even though either not necessary to the new set up or that newer users would have no use for them. The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives. D.L. Moody If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
