[gui-talk] The voicing of m dash

[Mike Freeman]

I reiterate. Do you *really* want to remain in ignorance of the printed 
characters you are working with? To me, that's like saying that you 
don't care whether your characters are uppercase, bolded or italic.

Mike

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Allen Maynard
  To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
  Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash


  Hi, Mr. Oppermann and list,

  Is there a way to set Jaws 8 not to voice this?


  Sincerely,

  Allen Maynard
  Access Technology Specialist
  Computer Services Department
  Hadley School for the Blind
  Phone:  toll-free:  800-323-4238
  Email:  allen at hadley.edu
  Web Site:  www.hadley.edu

  -----Original Message-----
  From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
On Behalf Of Charles Oppermann
  Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:55 AM
  To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
  Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash

  That's because it's an "em dash" character, not a regular dash 
character. The Unicode character set includes several different 
dash-like characters.  Here are some that I put in using the Character 
Map tool.

  -       Regular Dash
  ‐       Hyphen
  -       En (“e n”) Dash
  -       Em (“e m”) Dash
  ―       Horizontal Bar

  I’d forgotten the meanings of En versus Em dashes and had to look it 
up here:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

  Charles Oppermann | Program Manager | Speech Components | Microsoft 
Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/chuckop/

  -----Original Message-----
  From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
On Behalf Of Allen Maynard
  Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:00 AM
  To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
  Subject: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash

  Hi, listers,

  How do you set it so Jaws will not say "M dash" when it sees a dash, 
I'm assuming?

  I am using Jaws 8, office 2003, and Windows XP-pro.

  It says this "m dash" in Word and sometimes on web pages and it is 
annoying.

  Thanks

  Sincerely,

  Allen Maynard
  Access Technology Specialist
  Computer Services Department
  Hadley School for the Blind
  Phone:  toll-free:  800-323-4238
  Email:  allen at hadley.edu
  Web Site:  www.hadley.edu
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I reiterate. Do you *really* want to remain in ignorance of the printed characters you are working with? To me, that's like saying that you don't care whether your characters are uppercase, bolded or italic.
 
Mike
 
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From:
mailto:Maynard at hadley.edu Allen Maynard
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Sent:
Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:24 AM
Subject:
Re: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash
Hi, Mr. Oppermann and list,
Is there a way to set Jaws 8 not to voice this?
Sincerely,
 
Allen Maynard
Access Technology Specialist
Computer Services Department
Hadley School for the Blind
Phone:  toll-free:  800-323-4238
Email:  mailto:allen at hadley.edu allen at hadley.edu
Web Site:  http://www.hadley.edu www.hadley.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Charles Oppermann
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:55 AM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash
That's because it's an "em dash" character, not a regular dash character. The Unicode character set includes several different dash-like characters.  Here are some that I put in using the Character Map tool.
-       Regular Dash
‐       Hyphen
-       En (“e n”) Dash
-       Em (“e m”) Dash
―       Horizontal Bar
I’d forgotten the meanings of En versus Em dashes and had to look it up here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash
Charles Oppermann | Program Manager | Speech Components | Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/chuckop/ http://blogs.msdn.com/chuckop/
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Allen Maynard
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:00 AM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash
Hi, listers,
How do you set it so Jaws will not say "M dash" when it sees a dash, I'm assuming?
I am using Jaws 8, office 2003, and Windows XP-pro.
It says this "m dash" in Word and sometimes on web pages and it is annoying.
Thanks
Sincerely,
Allen Maynard
Access Technology Specialist
Computer Services Department
Hadley School for the Blind
Phone:  toll-free:  800-323-4238
Email:  mailto:allen at hadley.edu allen at hadley.edu
Web Site:  http://www.hadley.edu www.hadley.edu
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