Re: Not getting Character creation with new Jaws update
- From: Yardbird <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:48:06 -0700
Hi Negoslav ,
Yes, that's the keystroke, as I believe said in my first post. Thank you
very much.
Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Negoslav Sabev" <negi4a@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Not getting Character creation with new Jaws update
Insert+4 from the number row?
Negoslav
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene" <gwilson@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 5:52 PM
Subject: RE: Not getting Character creation with new Jaws update
> Joel,
>
> There is a key combination for a JAWS dictionary of symbols from which you
> may copy the ones you need into your document. Unfortunately, I use it so
> rarely I don't remember what that silly combination is.
>
> With regard to your pronunciation problem, there is, I believe, a setting
> in
> JAWS whereby it will recognize languages, other than English,
> automatically.
>
> I hope I've been a little helpful.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Yardbird
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:31 PM
> To: JFW List
> Subject: Not getting Character creation with new Jaws update
>
> After reading the list of bug fixes and improvements in this update on the
> FS Web page about it, I was looking forward to again being able to create
> characters with diacritical marks and other things like the inverted
> question mark and inverted exclamation point in Spanish, in my word 2000.
> Sadly, what I expected hasn't come to pass. My attempts to produce an
> accented lowercase a result in nothing at all, just like before I
> installed
> the update. Yes, of course I restarted when the installation was complete,
> as instructed by the installation wizard.
>
> Could this be because my way of creating such characters is to use the
> Insert num row 4 command to get a list of such things to choose from and
> insert in the text? I haven't used the actual Word character function for
> years. It was difficult enough for me when I could see it, and with Jaws I
> never could figure it out at all, so I really welcomed it when someone on
> a
> list like this told everyone about the Insert 4 deal.
>
> For comparison, I can and do create such characters when I'm typing an
> email
> in my Outlook Express 6. Let me try that right here and see if it still
> works. I'll type the Spanish word for pharmacy with an accented a in the
> second syllable. or try to, anyway. Farmácia. yep. I got myself the a
> acute
> that I wanted. In Spanish, it would now have the accent on that second
> syllable and the last part would sound like see ya, not shuh. even though
> I
> can't figure out how to trick jaws into saying it right, at the moment. So
> Insert A still exists in this updated version. But it still won't work for
> me in Word anymore, which I think it used to do in Version 9 but gave up
> in
> Version 10. Maybe I misremember?
>
> Any helpful information will be appreciated. yes, I stick with Word 2000
> on
> purpose, for certain reasons, so if that's the problem, that Jaws 10
> doesn't
> fully "support" Word 2000, I'll have to let it go.
>
> Joel
>
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