Configuration Files

[Luke Davis]

Hehheh.  I just reread my original question below, and it sounds a bit
high-minded, or something of that sort.  That wasn't really the idea, and
I apologize if anyone took it that way.  I want to do something that is
not being done for the project, that I as a user could use.  If this was
of little interest, I would have probably tried for beeping caps, screen
searching ability, or one of the other things that seem like good ideas.
However, I like this idea of making this as configurable as a MS
environment screen reader, and I figure having a config file interface,
regardless of whether it actually *does* anything right now, is a good
start on that.

Luke


On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> Yes, it would definitely be worth your while, and a benefit to
> everyone. Linux and speakup need eventually to gravitate toward
> the more average user, and configuring speakup is one of those
> tasks that everyone might like to do more easily. I only wanted
> you to know that many of the primitives you might need to rely on
> are already lying there waiting to be pulled together into a
> nicer tool.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Luke Davis wrote:
>
> > That is good, and gives me an interesting idea, which I will investigate.
> >
> > However, I would still like your opinion re what I wrote earlier.  Would a
> > unified, more free-form (keyword value option <nl> keyword value option),
> > type config file or interface, be of more use to you, and as such would it
> > be worth my time investigating?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Luke
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> >
> > > Here is how I do it:
> > >
> > > I maintain a directory under /etc called speakup which contains
> > > all the elements of /proc/speakup which are configurable. Some
> > > elements under /proc/speakup are not configurable; they are
> > > read-only. But such things as rate, pitch, punc_level, and the
> > > strings for some and most punctuation, can be written as well as
> > > read.
> > >
> > > I have a command in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and again in
> > > /etc/profile, like this:
> > >
> > > cp -R /etc/speakup /proc
> > >
> > > so that on bootup and whenever a user logs in, speakup is
> > > configured to whatever the values are in the /etc/speakup
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > So to change something I must either write the new value to
> > > /proc/speakup, or else edit the stuff in /etc/speakup and then
> > > execute a command such as shown above.
> > >
> > > This is not particularly user friendly either, but it is a good
> > > starting point. I believe Janina and others who use more than one
> > > synth from time to time have worked out an even more elaborate
> > > but more flexible method of saving and restoring speakup
> > > parameters.
> > >
> > > HTH -
> > >
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Luke Davis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Useful knowledge, which I previously did not have.
> > > >
> > > > So should all configuration be handled this way, thus making a
> > > > configuration file approach meaningless, or is there still potential for
> > > > value to that idea, either now or for future configurable options?
> > > >
> > > > I don't particularly mind writing values to /proc entries every time I
> > > > want to change the punctuation level, but I am not all users, and some
> > > > might want a more intuitive way of handling this, such as an rc or other
> > > > such file.
> > > >
> > > > I would like any opinions I can get.
> > > >
> > > > Luke
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Speakup presently allows punctuation level to be set at none,
> > > > > some, most, or all. The some and most levels can be configured by
> > > > > the user to include or exclude whatever he or she wishes. You
> > > > > select the level by writing a number to /proc/speakup/punc_level,
> > > > > and you can edit and rewrite the some and most strings to that
> > > > > directory too. I am not sure what other functionality would be
> > > > > added by Luke's suggestions. Maybe I am misunderstanding
> > > > > something, but it seems to me the existing features will do
> > > > > pretty much whatever one wishes.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
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