Re: JAWS and Spanish Language
- From: <ptusing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:40:19 -0500
Hi,
Well, in practicing Spanish characters, I stupidly got stuck with space
markers and paragraph markers in Word which I can't get rid of.
Also I noticed that using the JAWS command "insert + 4" in Word that
there is no cedilla. How strange.
Thanks all for the foreign language info!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: JAWS and Spanish Language
> I assume you have your language set to spanish in word. I do see a
problem with
> how jaws says puncuation. the . is said how it is in English not how it
is
> supposed to be said in spanish.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Francis Daniels" <fdaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 5:13 PM
> Subject: JAWS and Spanish Language
>
>
> > I am encountering an issue related to JAWS 5.0.844 and Spanish text.
Here's
> > what is happening:
> >
> > While in Microsoft Word 2000, text written in Spanish will not be read
in
> > Latin American Spanish JAWS. The menus, however, are read properly.
This
> > was the case for this, and previous versions, of JAWS.
> >
> > Spanish language text written in WordPad is read correctly. Spanish
> > language composed in Eudora Pro is read properly.
> >
> > Just not in Microsoft Word.
> >
> > My wife is a Spanish language interpreter, and is going through some
> > additional schooling. She needs to write text in Spanish and evaluate
it
> > for spelling and grammar. It is extremely difficult for her to listen
to
> > Spanish text read in an American accent. Well, it actually sounds
funny,
> > but it's hard for her to listen and reformulate it so that it's
> > understandable.
> >
> > Does anyone know why this is happening? Is there a fix? The
work-around we
> > are using is to compose in Spanish while in WordPad and then copy it to
> > Word. I don't like it but don't know what else to do.
> >
> > Francis
> >
> >
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