James,
Have you changed voices to see if this corrects the problem?
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On 11/13/2017 5:12 AM, James AUSTIN wrote:
Hi Anne
Nice to speak with you again. Thank you for your suggestions. Admittedly the
second one never occurred to me. :)
Thanks
James
PS - Feel free to write me of-list. It would be lovely to catch up if you'd
like to.
On 13 Nov 2017, at 06:42, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello James,
I haven’t encountered this problem but I have a couple of suggestions.
The first is to copy the content into either a Pages or TextEdit document and
do a few global changes to get rid of the ligatures.
The other is to see if you can do something with VoiceOver pronunciation in the
VoiceOver Utility. I mean, to copy the character for double-f and tell
VoiceOver to read it as two Fs.
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Nov 2017, at 13:48, James AUSTIN <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi folks
Is there a way of forcing Voice over to ignore the ligatures present in serif
fonts like Times please? For those who may not know, ligatures are stylised
letter combinations such as the 'double f' found in words like 'effort'. They
are often italicised and joined together. Ligatures are, as far as i know,
only found in fonts which use decorative letter stylings. Fonts including Arial
do not use ornamentation.
Voice over mispronounces such words because it does not know that the ligatures
are present. This is often a problem with PDFs downloaded from academic
repositories. While the PDFs are far from unreadable, it is inconvenient. I
suspect that this is not possible without using OCR, but thought i would ask.
Thanks
Take care
James
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