Re: A few questions on how Emacspeak handles text and long lines

[Lucas Radaelli <lucasradaelli@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the tip about visual mode. This is very useful.

On 28/06/2015 23:00, T. V. Raman wrote:
> > > > > > "Victor" == Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Responses in-line:
>      Victor> Hi. I could not find any Emacspeak settings that
>      Victor> could answer my questions below, so any help would be
>      Victor> much appreciated.
>      Victor>
>      Victor> 1. I noticed that when Emacspeak encounters lines of
>      Victor> certain length, it takes two or more presses of a
>      Victor> down arrow to go through them, creating an impression
>      Victor> of navigating through duplicate lines. Is there a way
>      Victor> to change this setting? Also, why this behavior? Is
>      Victor> there a historical reason for this?
>
> The above is due to visual-line-mode which  got introduced  in
> Emacs about 5 years ago. If visual-line-mode is turned on, long
> lines are visually wrapped -- you should turn of visual-line-mode
> since it provides little to no value when you cannot see the
> screen.
>
>      Victor>
>      Victor> 2. When Emacspeak encounters characters, such as (,
>      Victor> ), <, >, etc, it makes my TTS pronounce them as "left
>      Victor> asterisk parent", "right asterisk parent", "greater
>      Victor> asterisk than", etc. Again, is this intentional? If
> Which engine? If Mac, Ask Bart or David.
>
>      Victor> yes, then why?
>      Victor>
>      Victor> 3. When Emacspeak encounters a character repeated
>      Victor> several times, say, 15 hyphens, it appends the "15
>      Victor> dashes" with the word "awww", so the phrase sounds
>      Victor> like "awww 15 dash". Why is this behavior? Is there a
>      Victor> setting I am missing without having to go into the
>
> That's something I originally  implemented based on IBM
> Screenreader which is what I used before I impleemnted
> Emacspeak.  The "aw" is just a nonsense phrase  that makes it
> slightly easier to parse the utterance.
>      Victor> source files?
>      Victor>
>      Victor> Thanks a lot and apologies if these have been asked
>      Victor> before.
>      Victor>
>      Victor> Best, Victor
>
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