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[Ryan Mann]

I didn't do foot notes.  I sighted the sources at the end of each 
paragraph in APA format.  For example, if I used information from a 
book by John Walker, I would have (Walker, John, 1990, P. 6)

Ryan
Original message:
> How did you do the footnotes?  Thee is a person on the vo list wanting to
> know how this is done in text edit?


> On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Ryan Mann wrote:

>> Hi.  You mentioned Microsoft Office not being accessible with Voice
>> Over.  For word processing, you could use the editor that comes with
>> Mac OSX called Text Edit.  You can read and save documents in Word or
>> rich text format.  I've recently used my new Mac Mini to do a research
>> paper for one of my classes.

>> Original message:
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>>> I didn't get a lot of time to really get down and use Voice Over heavily
>>> but I did give Itunes a try.  Forget it! Itunes was quieter than a
>>> church mouse! I understand applications have to be built in Coco
>>> framework in order for Voice Over to work.  Itunes and the ports of
>>> Microsoft Office are in Carbon; I was told that Carbon apps just flat
>>> don't work in Voice Over.

>>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:39:04PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote:
>>>> What are you talking about?
>>>> I use the mac every day. Email, file manipulation, cd/dvd playing, cd/
>>>> dvd creating, online chatting, web browsing, word processing, and to
>>>> some degree, even programming on the mac are completely 100%
>>>> accessible.  There's folks using it for sound editing, and podcast
>>>> creation as well.  If there's stuff you can't do on the mac, there's
>>>> probably a third-party solution out there somewhere to do it.
>>>> Admittedly, some of the programs aren't 100% accessible, but there's
>>>> always workarounds.  The shell prompt (they call it terminal) works,
>>>> though not automatically, but if that's the worst I have to worry
>>>> about with a machine, then I'd say it's a pretty good machine.
>>>> Also, the apple provided dvd player won't let you get to the video
>>>> described sound tracks on your dvd by yourself, but the softcon DVD
>>>> player does (http://softcon.com/mac). and there's other developers
>>>> working on things like producing audio mp3 files from text using the
>>>> apple voices, and various other little things to make macs easier/
>>>> better to use.  I'd suggest going into your local apple store,
>>>> sitting down with a mac, and trying it before insisting it's not
>>>> usable.  I think you might be surprised at how much you can do with it.


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