[bksvol-discuss] Re: Jaws, tight lipped about page breaks!

  • From: "Susan" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:34:15 -0500

Hi Lissi,

I came to the Bookshare Classroom hoping to see you! Maybe we can catch up
with each other soon!

Best Always,

Susan
  

-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Estelnalissi
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:17 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Jaws, tight lipped about page breaks!

Dear Jackie,

It's very generous, and at this time of night, too. I hadn't noticed how
late it had gotten!

Always with love,

Lissi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:13 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Jaws, tight lipped about page breaks!


> I'll go up to the classroom. That ok?
>
> On 7/27/08, Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Dear Roger,
>>
>> When Jaws was speaking Page break, I was listening to the book by 
>> arrowing
>> down one line at a time. I don't use continuous play because I think I
>> concentrate and notice more detail one line at a time. The act of 
>> arrowing
>> down line by line seems to aid my concentration on the task. Reading line

>> by
>> line helps me hear when funky formatting is going on as when margins are 
>> all
>> over the map or fonts go huge, because those problems present as much
>> shorter or longer sounding lines. Really, I'm not sure that matters as 
>> long
>> as the paragraph breaks are in the right places.
>>
>> I'm sorry I can't contribute anything to help you hear page breaks when 
>> JAWS
>> is continuously reading.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Always with love,
>>
>> Lissi
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
>>   To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>   Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:43 PM
>>   Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Jaws, tight lipped about page breaks!
>>
>>
>>   As a matter of fact, I am having a similar problem. I have just started
>> validating a book in which I at first thought that there were no page
>> breaks. However, when I down arrow one line at a time JAWS reads the page
>> breaks when I come to them. It just doesn't do so when it is continuously
>> reading. To make matters worse, none of the pages are numbered. I have 
>> just
>> inserted the first ten page numbers, but this is too tedious while 
>> reading
>> the text too. If no other solution is found I think that I will just go
>> ahead and finish the book on continuous read and then go back and down 
>> arrow
>> from one page break to another inserting page numbers. By the way, I am
>> using JAWS 9.0. In a message dated 7/27/2008 8:26:54 P.M. Pacific 
>> Daylight
>> Time, poetprodigy7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>>     -------------- Original message from "Estelnalissi"
>> <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: --------------
>>
>>
>>     > Dear Booksharian Friends,
>>     >
>>     > Recently I upgraded to JAWS nine point zero something something
>> something,
>>     > the upgrade after plain JAWS nine point oh. Now it no longer 
>> announces
>> page
>>     > breaks. Where it used to say Page Break, it now says blank.
>>     >
>>     > Seeing if the page breaks are there is tedious, slow and dizzy 
>> making
>> for
>>     > me, at the very least. This is slowing me down. Has anyone had the
>> same
>>     > problem?
>>     >
>>     > If nobody has ideas about this, I can reinstall JAWS nine point oh 
>> and
>> hope
>>     > that solves the problem. I'll also call JAWS tech help. I don't 
>> have
>> much
>>     > confidence in it because when I called for the first time in two
>> years, they
>>     > wanted to blame it all on Norton without delving in my problem at 
>> all,
>> and
>>     > this after my latest Norton upgrade had worked fine for 4 months
>> without
>>     > disturbing JAWS. I think computer maintenance is as ongoing and
>> expensive
>>     > and frustrating as car maintenance must be for people who own them.

>> I
>> like
>>     > appliances that work for years without acting twisted, things like
>> fans,
>>     > refrigerators, radios and washing machines!
>>     >
>>     > Thanks in advance,
>>     >
>>     > Lissi
>>     >
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