I do not think you can not hid those because they are chars. That are used to navigate with a braille not and or sence note to be able to jump by line parg. Etc. -----Original Message----- From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Russell Solowoniuk Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 15:30 To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Prevent VO saying "return" in TextEdit? Hi TF! Yes, I tried that, but it didn't help. Thanks. Russell > On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Tuscia-Falconer <falconer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Have you tried reducingVerbosity to the lowest setting ? > > TF > > On 15/08/2014, at 4:44 am, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a large document, actually a book called "Learn to Use the Mac with VoiceOver: A Step by Step Guide" that I purchased from National Braille Press in ASCII text format. > > When reading through the book, in TextEdit, VO says "return, new line" whenever there is a new paragraph. Is there any way to prevent this from being read? I know in MS Word, in Windows, you can choose to "hide" or "show" paragraph marks, and when they are hidden, Jaws will not read them. Is there a similar setting within TextEdit? > > Thanks, > > Russell> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >