There's an even easier way; use the left alt key. In fact, on this machine, that's the only one that works anyway. From left Alt to S is an easy stretch. Of course, it's academic, since he's already found a satisfactory alternative. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Jenkins Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 11:29 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: a question about displaying font information with jaws version 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 Hello Daniel. I'm very surprised that the original keystroke is a problem for you. I don't find myself having to stretch my fingers very far. With my right hand on the number pad I get the insert key with my right thumb while having my left hand on the home row keys and tucking my left thumb under to get the alt key while pressing S. I hope this helps. Chris. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yardbird Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 7:06 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: a question about displaying font information with jaws version 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 Ryan, Thanks for telling me. I wouldn't have guessed, because there isn't any other application in which I was interested for this purpose. But no hassle. I don't mind doing it in the default file. That's fine. Thanks for your patience and effort. Let me go try it... Success. In order to get the key combo I really wanted for finger convenience (Insert control S), I had to delete that keystroke from Set Synthesizer, but as I've used only Eloquence for years, I don't expect to need to change my synth on the fly. And I tested it to see if it took, and it did. Whew. That was not something I could have figured out on my own, I'll tell ya! Sure, I understood all along that I'd have to go into Keyboard Manager, didn't need to be told that. But only you figured out that it wasn't true that I could restrict the change only to the word.jkm file, or that I'd not even find the function listed there. Well, this is going to be handy for proofreading things I write with a lot of foreign language words and phrases set off in italics,another method besides just poking through everything just stopping all the time and using Insert F, character by character. Which still will have its uses, of course. But this is really cool. Now if only I could figure out how to invoke my Spanish voice to read the Spanish words, which I type using proper symbols and all that. You happen to know? Or, as I surmise from something I read in the course of all this, you can only set these scheme voices to high or low or something like that? Sorry for going stupid. I was working all day before I got into this inspired by your advice, and now my brain is totally burned out, at least for Jaws. your inspiration y rfrom poi Thanks again, Ryan. xcept ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan MacIsaac" <jrmacisaac@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 2:52 PM Subject: RE: a question about displaying font information with jaws version 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 Hi Yardbird, It appears that, in Jaws 8, the "select a scheme" script is only available in the default keyboard file. It is not in the Microsoft Word keyboard file. If you want to change that Alt insert S keystroke, you are going to have to do it in the default keyboard file. Unfortunately, there is no other way around this unless you want to copy the "select a scheme" script from the default file to the Word keyboard script file. If you are not familiar with modifying script files, I would simply make the change in the default file. That way, if you are running another program and decide to want to change a scheme, the new keystroke you define will be available to you. I know you wanted this change only to take effect for Word, but there is no easy way to do that short of modifying script files. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yardbird Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 5:59 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: a question about displaying font information with jaws version 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 Ryan, Well, I returned to the list in keyboard manager for Word (not Word 2007, which is one of two alternatives to the default Word selection) and looked up and down it, both by pressing the letter s and just by arrowing. No luck. There are plenty of set this, set that lines, but not this one. If it helps for me to say this, I'm using Word 2000 with the latest, or second latest Jaws 8 . By second latest, I mean 8.0.1163 Unicode. I don't know why it just said "unicode." But that's what it said, and I'm reporting faithfully. any idea why I can't find this option in my keyboard manager list for Word? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan MacIsaac" <jrmacisaac@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 1:20 PM Subject: RE: a question about displaying font information with jaws version 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 Hi, If you look at my message again, you need to find a script in the keyboard manager called "select a scheme". That is the script that is assigned to the key combination Alt insert S. From your message, it appeared that this was the keystroke you wanted to change. If you only want to change this keystroke from one particular program like Microsoft Word, open Word and then invoke the keyboard manager and look for the script "select a scheme". You can then change the Alt control S keystroke to something easier for you to use. If you want this keystroke to be applied in all programs, you have to load the default file by pressing control shift D when you open the keyboard manager. Once you do this, you can invoke the change schemes list box by using the keystroke you entered in the keyboard manager. I hope this is clear and it will do what you want to do. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yardbird Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 4:28 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: a question about displaying font information with jaws version 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 Hi Ryan, I do not want to change the key command for the Say Font script, nor would I apply the change I am looking for globally to all applications. This thread began with a discussion of how to invoke the speech and sounds menu with a hotkey in order to make Jaws speak various attributes in different voices. Let me be clear once more. I do know that This function can be either invoked by this particularly inconvenient hotkey key combination (insert alt s) or, as if often the case with Jaws, by going into configuration manager, settings, speech and sounds, and setting it there. But that's not much fun if you just want to activate this function temporarily and then turn it off. Now, I hope that clarified what the original topic was. It wasn't about Insert F. There is nothing inconvenient about Insert F. I was not trying to learn how to change that. And, if I go to the keyboard manager looking in the Word area for a keystroke for this purpose, either it's not in the list, or I need to know the name it's been given for that list, which must be pretty counter-intuitive, I'd say. That is what I'm looking for, a way to change Insert Alt S to something else. Thanks very much for responding. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan MacIsaac" <jrmacisaac@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 11:56 AM Subject: RE: a question about displaying font information with jaws version 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 Hi, To do what you want to do, open the keyboard manager and then load the default keyboard file by pressing control shift D. Next, find the script "select a scheme" and change the key to whatever you want as outlined in the previous message about the say font script. I hope this helps, Ryan -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yardbird Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:14 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: a question about displaying font information with jaws version 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 Dear Evangeline, I'm sorry, but it seems I may not have expressed myself clearly enough. I do not wish for another way to invoke the Say Font command. Insert F is perfectly convenient and I use it frequently. The keystroke I wished to change is the one that invokes the sounds and schemes dialogue from which you can choose one of many ways to make Jaws automatically speak font changes as it reads, or speak the text in different voices for different character formatting, such as bold or italic. That keystroke is Insert alt S, and without instruction from a Yoga master, I can't see how I can learn to stretch my right hand that far without using my other hand to place my little finger on Insert and my thumb on the alt key, and then use my left hand finger to press the S key. This is quite a trick of contortion. so I wish I could change this to something easier. But if it is also in the keyboard manager list, I can't figure out how to find it, or what it's called. I hope this is more clear. Thanks very much. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evangeline Dionisio" <evangeline.dionisio@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:37 AM Subject: Re: a question about displaying font information with jaws version 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 The first thing to do is you go to the keyboard manager. Then locate the dessired application that you want to change. So for example microsoft word. Then go to the next pane by pressing tab. Then locate the dessired keystroke you want to change, as you mentioned say font. After that, as you are locating the dessired keystroke you heard the asigned key right! After you hear the asign key for say font, press tab for you to go to the asign hotkey. That's now the time you can change the hotkey asign to it. After you change the default hotkey, press tab to go to the ok button. That's also the time the JAWS setting will now accept the new hotkey. I hope this will help you. I'm very sorry for the confusing words. If you still have questions, just ask me and I will answer you as soon as I can. On 3/31/07, Yardbird <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Evangeline, > > could you explain this again? I would like to be able to use this command > to > make certain character formatting speak different. With considerable > effort > and stretching, I managed to open the list of schemes, and was able to > turn > on the proofreading scheme for what I would like to hear spoken in a > different voice. But this is one crazy stretch of the hand and fingers, > for > me anyway. > > So I saw your advice to change the hotkey, but I guess I didn't understand > your instructions. I opened the keyboard manager and left it in the file > for > Word, and arrowed through the list looking for something with Insert alt s > so I could change it, but I couldn't find anything like that. Was I > looking > in the wrong place? Please give specific directions. > > Thanks very much. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Evangeline Dionisio" <evangeline.dionisio@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:15 AM > Subject: Re: a question about displaying font information with jaws > version > 8.0.423 and microsoft word 2003 > > > One thing that you can do is to change the keyboard shortcut. You can > go to the list of the script for Ms word and change the keyboard > shortcut for saying font as well as its style. I hope it will help > you. > Good luck! > > On 3/30/07, Chris Jenkins <saveup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello. > > > > You can bring up your list of schemes by pressing "ALT + insert + S". > > Once > > you bring up the list of schemes there should be a scheme for what you > > want > > to do. 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