Re: Vinux 3.0 released!
- From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:09:45 -0400
Hi, Jamal. Support for emacspeak is a very high priority for me. It
was on the original wish-list. However, with all the Firefox bugs,
and other crud I had to deal with, I basically ran out of time. I
didn't want to do a half-baked job of integration. I want to do it
right. There are also issues of which version to support. I built an
updated Debian package for Vinux based on version 32, but the Debian
guys are still back on version 29. Gilles Casse complicated matters
for me a bit with a version of the older Debian package that has voxin
pre-installed, anI tried to add 64-bit suppod with working 64-bit
support. Emacspeak users are all power-users, and most of them are
installing Gilles' version, rather than the newer version I have,
because of voxin support.
If you have any pull with the Debian guys who package emacspeak, I
have a newer package that also has a properly working watchlist file,
which is broken in theirs, which may be one reason they are behind on
releases. I also compile the espeak driver by default so that after
install, emacspeak comes up talking, while with the Debian package,
users have to do more work.
I would like your advice on how to best incorporate emacspeak. A good
user case is David R. Ring, who is apparently a long-time emacspeak
user. I don't know what he does to make emacspeak come up talking in
the consoles by default, but when he did, he also had speakup talking
at the same time. What is the right way to get emacspeak working in
the consoles? I occasionally try it in a gnome-terminal which works
well for me, though I've read that users have trouble with it. Do
emacspeak users normally have to login without sound, or does
emacspeak come up by default?
Thanks,
Bill
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Another question. Perhaps I missed it, but I did not find mention of
> Emacspeak in the Vinux distribution. If it is not included, I'm curious
> why, and wonder if there is a convenient script to install it.
>
> Jamal
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