[bcab] Re: JAWS9 and punctuation

Hi Phil!

Has anyone ever called you genius? well! that's what you are!. That was the 
answer and I'd never have worked that one out. I was keying the text directly 
in to the dictionary managers, so for the     JAWS default manager that was 
fine and the changes were implemented, but for the Microsoft Word.jdf you need 
to type the text in a word document and then add it to this manager and yes! 
that seems to work fine.

Thanks ever so much Phil!. I can go back to listening to long chapters from my 
thesis without wishing to return to my elderly PC with JAWS4 on it, which is 
about to self destruct.

Cheers!.

Very best wishes from Chris Cook.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Medway, Phil - Corporate Core - ICT Services 
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:12 PM
  Subject: [bcab] Re: JAWS9 and punctuation


  Hi Chris and welcome to the list.

  There are several ways in which computers encode our character set internally.

  It is likely that MSWord uses a different code for the apostrophe than your 
E-mail client and some other applications.

  I wonder if you pasted the same apostrophised word in to both the default and 
Word dictionaries.  This could result in the Jaws scripts for Word not 
recognising the apostrophe in its text since the internal code would be 
different from the one in the dictionary.

  If this rings a bell, try amending the apostrophised words in Words' Jaws 
dictionary, replacing the apostrophe in them to an actual typed apostrophe from 
word. 

  Apologies for the complicated sound of these instructions.  I never was very 
good at simplification.

  If I haven't made myself clear enough, please feel free to contact me and 
I'll try again.

  Regards,

  Phil Medway

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