writing spk howto (?)

[Sean McMahon]

While we're on the subject of writing howtos, is there some process for getting
these things on the speakup site?  Is there a general cvs project or aria for
documentation     of speakup?
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: <david at bruzos.org>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: writing spk howto (?)


> Absolutely, you should do a Speakup with Software Speech HOWTO. The
> community needs one desparately, and there aren't enough of us document
> writers to go around.
>
> In all honesty, I must tell you that writing a clear, concise, and
> complete HOWTO is hard work. I don't say this to discourage you, but to
> point out that there's a reason why more HOWTOs aren't just out there to
> be plucked off the net. My advice is to start simple, and Speakup With
> Software Speech sounds to me like about the right task.
>
> I will tell you that I attempted to write a HOWTO for Speakup on Linux
> together with a professional tech writer from IBM. When the tech writer
> left IBM this project stalled--after over 6 months of work between us.
> That's when I took the pieces that I actually knew something about and
> created the Installation HOWTO for the Speakup Modified Fedora Core.
>
> Which reminds me, writing a HOWTO is only part of the job. The rest of
> the job is maintaining the HOWTO which means making new versions when
> new facts change the advice people need to have.
>
>
>
> David Bruzos writes:
> >
> > Hello everyone:
> > This is my first time posting to this mailing list.  I have come here many
times before to find info about Linux and
> > Speakup. I have a running system largely due to the existence of this list.
So, first, I like to thank the people that
> > organize it and everyone involved in Speakup for their work.  Kirk is the
man!
> >
> > Last week I searched through the archives for hours to find out how to
configure my software synth.  I saw, among other
> > things that there are no howtos for discribing this process and that most of
the documentation is somewhat outdated.
> > Anyway, it would have been much earier for me to setup software speech if
there would have been an organized guide or
> > howto, that explains how to do it...  I am sure that this is no news to most
people in this list!
> >
> > So, I figured that now that I know how to do it, I can put together such a
document.  In fact, I would like to
> > contribute by doing this.  I can not program well enough to improve speakup,
but I could help out with the docs.  I
> > would like to write a general Linux/Speakup howto, but I can not promise
that I can finish something like that any time
> > soon.  So, the software synth thing is a better short term goal.  I am a
full-time student at the University of North
> > Florida and soon to be a Dad, so time might be a problem in the
> > comming weeks...
> >
> > I would like to know what other mailing list members think about this.  Are
there some reasons why I should not do this?
> > Are there other people working on a similar project?  Anywthing is cool.
Oh, I am also a Linux newbey, so I might ask
> > simple questions sometimes...
> >
> > I am 23 years old and totally blind, so speakup is very important for me.  I
have been using Linux for about one year
> > and used Windows/jfw before that.  I started with Fedora Core 1 and now use
> > Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake 10 as well.  The reason for Mandrake is so that I
can help my father when required...
> >
> > Thanx!
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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>
> -- 
>
> Janina Sajka, Chair
> Accessibility Workgroup
> Free Standards Group (FSG)
>
> janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
>
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