Speakup Bugs

Luke Davis ldavis at shellworld.net
Mon Mar 3 18:41:34 EST 2003


Agreed (on the first).  I don't do it enough to care, it was just
something I noticed.

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, erik burggraaf wrote:

> Hi, I can comment on the first two bugs.  The first is a bug. Minorly
> irritating.  I can get the jist from reviewing the bottom of the screen, but
> clearing this up would speed things a bit.
> The second is not a bug.  It says zed when you pres the z, because it was
> writtin by a dude just down the road from me in london ontario canada.
> Here, we call that letter zed, as opposed to the american zee.  Dr. Seus
> would never approve, but I like it.  Smile.
> Cheers,
> Erik
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Luke Davis <ldavis at shellworld.net>
> To: <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Cc: <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 2:07 AM
> Subject: Speakup Bugs
>
>
> > Here are some further potential bugs.
> >
> > 1.  If you backspace [at the shell prompt], while parked, it will not
> > speak the deleted characters, but will instead speak [maybe], the
> > character on which the reading cursor is located (after).
> >
> > 2.  It says "zepthd", or something such as that, when you read or press a
> > "z".
> >
> > 3.  While using the dec express, and having Speakup spell a word in all
> > caps, or some caps and some other types, it will read the first two or so
> > letters, say "command error in string value", one or more characters
> > further, and later, depending on whether the word/acronym/etc., is short
> > or long, "command error in parameter", followed by maybe some numbers or
> > the like. I think this is the dec's bug, but speakup's problem, in the way
> > it is sending data to the DEC.
> >
> > 4.  In the todo file, it suggests that a good new feature, would be to
> > check parck status and store it, before doing a console switch.  This
> > appears to work now.
> >
> > Luke
> >
> >
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