[nvda] Re: NVDA and clock announcement

Hi Guys,

      In typesetting, and also computer slang, bang means exclaimation
point.  Stroke, is basically British English for forward slash.  (Maybe, you
can have a back stroke, not sure.)

References:
Stroke vs. Slash :  http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=351476
Bang : http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Exclamation_mark and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark#Computers

God Bless you,
Grae



On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:09 AM, brian gafff (Line One)
<bgaff@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Yes I wondered the same about bang myself. # is now sometimes hash and
> sometimes number but there seems little logic as to when its which, if you
> see what I mean.
> I'd also like to turn off Roman completely and have V11 etc back for my
> sanity.
>
> Brian
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: <coffeekingms@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:16 AM
> Subject: [nvda] NVDA and clock announcement
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>
> Hello all. I just had a quick question. When pressing NVDA+F12 to listen to
> the time NVDA seems to have a problem announcing anywhere from the hour to
> the first ten minutes. For example from 11:00 to 11:09 it says " eleven
> colon xx," where xx is the minute. After 09 it works fine. Is there any way
> to fix this? this is minor but I'm not sure how to put it in the speech
> dictionaries, because I'm not sure if I can use wildcards. One other thing.
> I am using eloquence with NVDA. When arrowing around windows explorer
> whenever I highlight  a file eloquence botches the announcement of last
> modified date and time. Instead of saying, "last modified, date/time without
> the slashes, it replies "questionmark   month slash questionmark day  slash
> questionmark questionmark year, time." And instead of  reading the date like
> it's supposed, e.g. january first, 2009 it says only 1/1/2009. in addition
> to the questionmarks and slashes I wrote. This is not a complaint, but is
> there any way to fix this? Can it be done through the speech dictionary  or
> does there need to be some code changes? One last thing, why does espeak
> pronounce slash as stroke and exclaimation mark as bang? It's a little odd
> to me. Not a complaint, just curious if it can be changed if I want NVDA to
> pronounce punctuation marks differently. I don't think it's possible since I
> remember  hearing somewhere that NVDA has it's own code for handling
> punctuation.
> Thanks a lot for any help
> Kendell clark
>
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