Re: [orca-list] some strange characters showing up in gnome

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
Absolutely true. I'm happy with it the way it is, I was just reporting
those characters. Times, by, either is good enough to tell me what I
need to know. Long way of saying I agree, orca shouldn't modify the
text in transit, grins.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Kendell.
>
> I have just committed a change to master which will hopefully
> solve that. Note that in the case of saying "times" rather than
> "by", Orca does that in 3.14 as well (i.e. long before any math
> symbol work was done). In fact if you do a spd-say followed by the
> string in question, you'll notice "times" is spoken. Long way of
> saying Orca should send the text in GUI controls as-is to
> speech-dispatcher and you get what speech-dispatcher gives you.
>
> Because you did not provide me any concrete examples for the
> horizontal ellipsis ("some options in menus" is not sufficiently
> concrete), I hopefully have fixed that but I cannot verify it.
>
> Lastly, the dot dot dot stuff needs feedback from other users.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 2015-07-04 06:47, kendell clark wrote: hi all Ever since the
> math ml support was added to orca, I've been noticing some strange
> characters showing up in gnome's menus and dialogs. In the display
> settings, the resolutions are said as 1600 x 900  16 ratio 9
> instead of 16 by 9, although I can easily figure out what it
> means. Some options in menus have "horrizontal elipsis" said after
> them. I'm assuming this is because they have an elipsis character
> after the option titles. I'm not complaining, just reporting it.
> Speaking of elipsis, orca has for a very long time, said "dot dot
> dot" when encountering the usual three periods to indicate a break
> in speech. The only reason I mention it is because espeak handles
> this just fine natively, and having espeak handle it ... I'm not
> sure how to put it exactly, it improves the speech flow? I hesitate
> to ask for it to be changed all by myself, I want to get some
> community feedback. I think there might be some synths who don't
> handle this character well. I know viavoice and espeak both do, but
> some natural voices might not. I think if they don't they just
> pause as if at the end of a sentence. What does everyone else
> think? By the way, the math ml code in firefox is amazing. I hope
> this can eventually get extended to all browsers, but what's hear
> is nice. There are apparently a lot more pages that use it than I
> thought. Thanks Kendell clark
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