[macvoiceover] Re: Prevent VO saying "return" in TextEdit?
- From: Keith Reedy <keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Voiceover Mac <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:19:32 -0400
Glad you are up and running and you are surely welcome.
We are Braille Bible printers,
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Keith Reedy
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On Aug 15, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, saving it as an RTF, as you suggested, worked… just had to do it a
> little differently! :)
>
> Changing the verbosity doesn’t stop “new line” from being read by VO, but it
> is only read when navigating by line. If I do a “say all” or, VO A to read
> the entire document, the “new line” doesn’t get read, so this is sweet!
>
> Thanks Keith.
>
> Russell
>> On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Keith Reedy <wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Pasting the doc in to a new textedit doc was going to be my next suggestion,
>> you are way ahead of me. As far as finding the headings you mite want to
>> try using the item chooser and type in header, or, heading and arrow down
>> through all the headings until you find what you want, some times that
>> works. You mite get it to stop saying blank line if you lower your
>> verbosity.
>>
>> Glad you're getting some where.
>> We print the Bible in Braille,
>> http://biblesfortheblind.org
>> Keith Reedy
>> God gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. J Hudson Taylor.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:09 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Keith! Well, I wasn’t able to save the file as an RTF… it didn’t give
>>> me that option. So, I copied the entire text of the document and pasted it
>>> into a new blank TextEdit document, and then when I saved it, the default
>>> was RTF. Now the “return” isn’t being read by VO! It still reads “new
>>> line”, but I don’t imagine there’s a way to get rid of that.
>>>
>>> Thanks very much Keith! It’s much nicer reading now. I also opened the book
>>> in VoiceDream, and it reads really well there. The only issue I’m having is
>>> that it’s a bit of a pain to navigate through the document. Each section
>>> has a “heading”, but, I know of no way to navigate by heading in TextEdit,
>>> or Pages for that matter. I tried saving the document as a Web Archive,
>>> but, unfortunately the heading style didn’t carry over to Safari. So, what
>>> I’m doing is going through the table of contents, searching for each
>>> section, and placing a web spot there… a bit time consuming, but once it’s
>>> done, it will be a bit easier to navigate.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for your help.
>>>
>>> Russell
>>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Keith Reedy <keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Russell,
>>>>
>>>> I have this happen from time to time when the file is created in something
>>>> like word, or OpenOffice. Some times it goes away if I save the file in
>>>> Textedit as an RTF file and if all fails I send it to my iPhone and read
>>>> it with one of the text editors that I keep on my phone for just such an
>>>> event.
>>>> HTH, kr
>>>> We are Braille Bible printers,
>>>> http://biblesfortheblind.org
>>>> Keith Reedy
>>>> keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 6:30 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi TF! Yes, I tried that, but it didn’t help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Russell
>>>>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Tuscia-Falconer <falconer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you tried reducingVerbosity to the lowest setting ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TF
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 15/08/2014, at 4:44 am, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a large document, actually a book called “Learn to Use the Mac
>>>>>> with VoiceOver: A Step by Step Guide” that I purchased from National
>>>>>> Braille Press in ASCII text format.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When reading through the book, in TextEdit, VO says “return, new line”
>>>>>> whenever there is a new paragraph. Is there any way to prevent this from
>>>>>> being read? I know in MS Word, in Windows, you can choose to “hide” or
>>>>>> “show” paragraph marks, and when they are hidden, Jaws will not read
>>>>>> them. Is there a similar setting within TextEdit?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Russell>
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