This is a change. To everyone on the list. I have a question I need to ask.
Could someone out there please teach me how to use yasr? I can tell you what problems I have had with it since I have been attempting to use it and there might be something someone can tell me. First of all, the speech is far too slow. I set my emacspeak at level 9 which is the fastest for speech, and I am comfortable with this. I don't know how many words per minute that is, the 150 and 175 of yasr with a maximum of 250 is too slow for me. Now, I have a problem with the thing hanging. There is no way to enter the settings menu of yasr and get the configuration file the way I want it and get back out again. After I set up the speech synthesizer and the rate, I find myself permanently entrapped in yasr and there is no way to save the configuration file settings and get back to work. The third problem is that the yasr documentation, rather, whatever program is used by the pdmenu program to display it, hangs up after the first screen full and there is no way to get to the key definitions and the rest of the documentation for yasr other than using emacspeak, which is what I normally use, anyway, to get at the man page. Now, how do you get the thing to go back to the pdmenu when you have finished with the program you want to use, and are ready to either change programs or stop the system and exit Oralux? Yasr simply falls silent and, most likely, disappears when I hit control-d or even type exit to leave the shell program. Does anyone use ne? That is a mis-nomer. There is nothing nice about that editor. It is a total nightmare to use. If anyone uses this program, I would appreciate whatever feedback you can give me on that one. I don't even try to use it for anything but reading a file or two, and I don't remember the commands I have tried, but there has to be a simple way to learn ne. Has anyone tried to learn the mcvox? How do you use that one? What can you do with that other than just list the files and directories in the top level of a disk file partition? If you can, please help me to learn this one as well. I like to learn new programs. Is there a way to get yasr to stop saying all punctuation? Even with the punctuation set to none, there is still enough to be annoying when reading through a regular text file such as a book. I guess you have to change all your settings in that configuration file, ~/.yasr.conf, is that right? Now, when you do something wrong, and I don't even know what it is, yasr starts saying the absolutely craziest things. What is [[a and [[b and [[c? These are all the program will say once they start and there is no way for me to get the thing reset again. As a result of any of these problems, whichever ones happen to occur on a typical experience with yasr, I have to reboot my system. I have to stop whatever work I have started an mess around with the system to get back to a place where I can continue to work. Your help is greatly appreciated. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST! Oralux: http://oralux.org _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
