sorry, I thought the minus was in parens. To fix this for one app only, you coud designate ( as - in the dictionary for that application. Johnnie Apple Seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie Scales" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Customizing Punctuation Again (123.25) Okay, I got it saying minus, let me see if I can remember what I did, smile. Okay I went to customize punctuation and changed left parenthesis description to minus. Now also, what level of punctuation do you use? If you tab you will find that for left parentheses the radio button for most is selected. So this means you have to have your punctuation at most or all. If you use some it won't work. Unless in configuration manager, you change that radio button to some. That radio button means it will honor it at all levels at or above that level of overall punctuation. As you say though, there is a bug because it made the change across all applications, not just the config manager I made it in. Also I wish they would change the way the customize punctuation list reads. Because once I changed left parenthesis to minus, then as I arrowed down the list I heard minus minus. I got really confused because I was like where in the world did the left parentheses go, I know it was here, ha ha. I think it should still see left parentheses, then the description of minus. . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorana" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:50 AM Subject: Customizing Punctuation Again In a program I use at work, negative numbers are shown in parentheses; thus, (123.25) should be read as -123.25. I tried to accomplish this with customized punctuation. There even looks to be an advanced setting that says"numeric negator text", which seems to be what I want, but no matter what I do, when JAWS sees parentheses, it won't say minus. Does anyone have any suggestions that might help? Thanks. Lora -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx