RE: Text Analyzer Broken

  • From: Adrian Spratt <Adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 11:53:08 -0400

Bill,

The feature was introduced in Version 12. Is that what you're using? 

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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Bill White
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:38 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Text Analyzer Broken

Hi, Ed. Can I use Text Analyzer in MS Word 2003? When I press JAWS key +T
when in a word document, it does nothing.

Thank you.
Bill White billwhite92701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marquette, Ed" <Ed.Marquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 8:06 AM
Subject: RE: Text Analyzer Broken


> At least when you are in a Word document, you can get it going in one of 
> two ways:
> 1.  Press JAWS key plus Spacebar
> Follow that with a press of the letter T
> That will announce all "errors."
> You turn it off the same way.
>
> 2.  In Verbosity, JAWS key plus V, use first letter navigation, in other 
> words, Press the letter "T"
> When you come to table options, you might want to press left arrow to 
> "close" table options before pressing T again.  Otherwise, you'll be stuck

> having to press T about 6 times just to get through Table options.
> When you come to Text Analyzer, press Tab to hear a description.  Then 
> press shift Tab to get to a rotator control which allows you to be 
> notified in different ways when Text Analyzer finds an "error."
> You can tell Text Analyzer what to look for in terms of errors in the 
> Settings Center.
> I've now turned off detection of space run, given the "fix" Freedom 
> Scientific made to JFW Version 12.0.1158.
> You can set it to find stray punctuation, parenthesis that open, but don't

> close, and the like.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf

> Of Bill White
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 9:56 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Text Analyzer Broken
>
> How do you open text analyzer?
>
> Thank you.
> Bill White billwhite92701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marquette, Ed" <Ed.Marquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 7:21 AM
> Subject: Text Analyzer Broken
>
>
>> Before JFW version 12.0.1158, Text Analyzer was a useful tool, 
>> identifying
>> situations in the text with errors that one might not otherwise notice,
>> e.g., mid-sentence font changes, spaces before commas and periods, and
>> extra spaces between words.  I often have problems with extra spaces
>> between words.
>> Some misguided soul at Freedom Scientific apparently decided to overrule
>> legal style books (as well as many other style formatting requirements)
>> and treat two spaces after a period as an error.  It calls out these
>> entirely appropriate (and often required) spaces as an erroneous space
>> run.
>> Moreover, with the verbosity settings, Jaws key plus V, there is no way 
>> to
>> change the setting so as to recognize that two spaces after a period are
>> perfectly proper, and often required.
>> I realize that journalist styles prescribe only one space after a period,
>> but to force that on everyone, particularly in the face of many style
>> requirements (and court rules in some cases) seems a little high-handed.
>> I've written to Freedom Scientific with a complaint and a suggestion that
>> this post-period spacing thing be made an option, to recognize 
>> differences
>> in writing style requirements.
>> It occurred to me, perhaps a little late, that there might be a setting
>> somewhere other than in the verbosity setting where this can be fixed.  I
>> checked the settings center, and the only option is a check/unchecked box
>> for runs of spaces.  Too bad!
>>
>>
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