Hi Tony: What a cool program, thanks a lot, Deb. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Hernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Proofreading with JAWS.
>A good text editor to use for this is EdSharp. It's free and open source > and works with rtf. One cool thing is that it uses the microsoft word > spell > checker if you have Word installed. > > The URL is > http://www.empowermentzone.com/edsetup.exe. > > The program is made for regular text editing, but also for writing code if > you're a programmer. If you're not,don't be intimidated by the extra > features in the menus that don't seem to make much sense. I use the > program > for medical transcription with no problems at all. Also, because it works > with RTF, you can still use David's suggestions quite nicely. > > Tony Hernandez: Speaksclan Patriarch > http://www.tonyspeaks.com > http://www.speaksclan.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Debbie Bugella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:57 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Proofreading with JAWS. > > >> Hi David: >> >> Thanks so very much! This never occurred to me because I really never >> have >> done anything with RTF. Great work-around and will save me a lot of time. >> Thanks, Deb. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:41 PM >> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Proofreading with JAWS. >> >> >>> Well one work around is to save your documents as RTF documents and have >>> a >>> separate configuration file for WordPad. You could then use the Classic >>> scheme with font attributes announced in Speech and Sound Manager and >>> set >>> punctuation to all. >>> >>> I get rid of my initial caps problem by letting Word auto correct these >>> whilst I am typing. >>> >>> Depends on how complex the text is. I find rtf gives tables and most >>> things >>> I need. I have routinely used RTF as a file type rather than doc and >>> had >>> never experienced a problem. >>> >>> You can then reinsert into word for any any stuff you want to do after >>> proof >>> reading. >>> >>> Alternatively you could get a freeware Word Processor to use instead of >>> WordPad for this task. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> David Griffith >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie >>> Bugella >>> Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:03 >>> To: Jaws-Users-List >>> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Proofreading with JAWS. >>> >>> Hi: >>> >>> I need to do a lot of proofreading and I know there is sounds manager, >>> but >>> I >>> need certain things that I can't find there; it would be simple to just >>> make >>> my own scheme, but like I said, I can't find all the settings I need to >>> change. I thought there was a way to set specific settings for specific >>> documents, or am I just dreaming? Here is the settings I want: >>> >>> Punctuation all >>> Speak first cap in upper case >>> Say attribute changes >>> >>> I don't want to change these settings and then have to change them back >>> again. If I have a document and just name it "proofread" can I just have >>> specific settings for that document and just delete the text when I'm >>> done >>> and just use that particular document over again for proofreading. >>> >>> Finally, if I use print preview, will I be able to tell what will be >>> hyphenated at the end of a line? There are certain words and >>> abbreviations >>> I >>> don't want hyphenated so need to check and see if I need to put them on >>> the >>> next line. I also need to determine what line will be at the bottom of a >>> printed page. I actually knew this at one time but forgot how to check. >>> Hope >>> this is a little clear at least. 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