I kept the format and replied inline
Suppose I want to hear each occurrence of the characters left parenthesis
and right parenthesis; doesn't matter if it's by character or standard/linethis symbol should be spoken" is/was as follows. It's an ascending
reading. A simple math expression such as
(3 + 1) * 2 = 8
I would want it to be spoken as "left paren three plus one right paren
star two equals eight"
Testing the expression above with the default settings for the two
parenthesis symbols (which is level most and send to sinth always) doesn't
speak the parenthisis symbols when reading a line with numpad8.
Now contrary to what I would expect, by reading the userGuide, or the
guide for developers that has more info about the topic, raising the level
from most to all doesn't change this behaviour.
The User Guide notes that the level field allows you to "adjust the lowest
symbol level at which this symbol should be spoken". The important word
here is "lowest". None is lower than some, some is lower than most, most is
lower than all. So when you set it to all, you're saying that all is the
lowest level at which the symbol will be spoken. Since there's no level
lower than all, all is the only level at which it will be spoken. It'd be
good to get your thoughts as to how you interpreted this sentence and why
this wasn't clear.
My interpretation of the phrase "adjust the lowest symbol level at which
And speaking of levels, what would be a concrete difference between some
and most, given that none, all and character are self-explanatory?
Unfortunately, there's no good answer to this. Personally, I really
dislike symbol levels for this reason; I'd prefer either none or all, but
that's unpopular with users. I tend to think of them like this:
* some: This is the default. It's reasonable to assume that new users will
be most comfortable with the way a human reads, so level some should try to
achieve this. For example, when someone is reading aloud, they might read
the plus sign, but they definitely won't read comma or full stop.
* most: Provides more detail than some, but without using words for
symbols which are clearly communicated by changes in the voice (pauses,
inflections, etc.). For example, we do include quotation marks, but we
don't include sentence endings.