I did a little checking and found that you can enable certain text services that will convert line endings to and from Mac/Unix/Windows among other interesting things. I enabled the line ending services and tried them out on a text file created in windows. Everywhere there was a blank line in the file, VO would say "return, new line". I selected the entire file and used the Macintosh lines ending service and it changed the blank lines from saying "return, new line" to only saying "return". Again, this applies to blank lines between paragraphs. Where there is no blank line between paragraphs, there is no line ending words like return or new line spoken.
And, this only applies when reading the file manually by line or paragraph. "return, new line" is not spoken when reading the entire document with the VO-A command. services are enabled in system preferences under the "shortcuts" tab. Select "services" in the category, table, and "text" in the services table. Then check the checkbox for the services you want to appear in the services menu in your various text processing apps like pages or text edit. On May 20, 2014, at 4:07 AM, Tristan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I believe I have discovered my problem, though I am unsure of a quick fix > (besides some alterations via terminal). Windows and Mac OS X use very > different linefeeds at the end. Windows uses a carriage return, whilst Mac > simply uses a linefeed character. These files were most likely created on a > Windows computer, thus they are encoded for viewing on a Windows operating > system. > Running some commands via terminal to convert them from dos to unix format > was successful, and the problem with VO saying 'new line' and 'return' seems > to have disappeared. > Running this on every one of these files could be very time consuming and > irritating at the very least, however. Does anyone have experience with > converting the linebreaks on these sorts of files to OS X format? > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maria and Joe Chapman > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 3:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Reading Documents > > HI. > > I believe text express will keep your place. > > I hope this helps > Cheers > Maria > > Produced on macbook [email protected] > > > > > On 20 May 2014, at 3:00 am, Tristan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've been told this is possible, but haven't exactly determined how. I have > several articles, documents and books in simple document formats (.txt, rtf, > etc). Whenever I read these in TextEdit/Pages, every time a grammatical or > spelling error is discovered, VO interrupts the reading flow to make that > known. Also, every time a new paragraph begins, or there are blank lines, it > says "return" or "new line". This is extremely ideal for editing or word > processing, but not for reading something without annoying and unnecessary > interruptions. > > Is there an app that would be optimal for reading long texts, such as > textbooks or articles? It seems iBooks is still largely inaccessible even > with the 10.9.3 update. Alternatively, can I turn these announcements off in > the Voice Over Utility? > > Thanks in advance > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
