More Speakup Suggestions--was Re: suggestions for Speakup

[Dave Hunt]

A "search" feature might be handy.  I notice that the Jupiter speech 
system for Linux has this.  Also, What about making Speakup available as 
a module, in addition to right into the kernel?


-Dave

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Adam 
Myrow wrote:

> Here are two things I would like to see some future version of Speakup be
> able to do.  First, I'd like to see a way of turning off the keypad.  For
> example, when numlock is on, the keypad would act normally and type
> numbers.  The second is some sort of frames or windows support.  What I
> mean is the feature where you can designate a part of the screen, say,
> lines 2 and 3, and instruct the screen reader to ignore these lines, but
> let you have them spoken on demand with a hot key.  Both DOS and Windows
> screen readers can do this, but I have no idea how it would be done in
> Speakup's current state since it can't save settings directly.  What do
> you all think of these ideas?  Are they doable?
> 
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