Phil, I don't seem to have the line ending service on my Mavericks system. Do you know where I can get it?
Chris On May 20, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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