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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

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:
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> 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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