Re: [orca-list] Continuous reading in Openoffice3.

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi.

> continuous reading is still a problem in openoffice 3.
> After reading from the beginning, reading stops for a few seconds and
> starts again from somewhere of that document.

Yikes. That's no good. :-( I spent some time this evening trying to
reproduce it, using documents ranging between 5 and 10 pages of text,
OOo Writer 3.0, and Orca from trunk with SayAll by Sentence and SayAll
by Line. I also varied the amount of load on my system. I was able to
reproduce two pauses. I'm not sure what caused the first one, but I had
a bunch of background processes going at the time. The second one
coincided with OOo Writer autosaving my document. In both cases,
however, SayAll picked up where it had left off. All of the other trials
ran smoothly (i.e. without stopping for several seconds). So....

1. What settings are you using? (i.e. orca-customizations.py,
user-settings.py, and your app-settings for OOo)

2. What synthesizer are you using?

3. Can you reproduce this problem reliably with all documents, reliably
with only some documents, or only sporadically (but often enough to be
annoying)?

4. Can you generate a debug.out while demonstrating the problem? (Please
see http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Debugging for more info on generating a
debug.out)

If you have a reliable test document and could attach it along with a
debug.out and a description of your configuration (or even better, the
actual setting files from item 1) to a new bug that would be awesome!

> This issue really needs to be adressed as This will totally discourage a
> new user from shifting to Ubuntu from Windows. Not only that, Persons
> like me will struggle really hard to get on with reading large
> documents.

I totally agree.  If you can help us reproduce the problem we will
hopefully be able to get to the bottom of it soon.

Thanks in advance! Take care.
--Joanie