Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide

[Zachary Kline]

Howdy,
OpenOffice does indeed do a pretty good job of that sort of thing.  There 
are a number of programs which can read MS Word files from the console, such 
as wv.  As for preparing nice-looking documents, you can use LateX, or 
similar.  The problem with Word documents is that a lot of times the 
formatting in them is only really essential to a sighted person, and 
sometimes not even to them.  The content of the document itself is more 
important than what it looks like.
If you'd like to use OpenOffice, though, Orca for Gnome has scripted the 
Writer program pretty extensively, as well as the spreadsheet.
Hope this helps,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton at verizon.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide


I've used only the console in Linux so far, and would be glad to keep doing 
it.  I know of no text-based way to use OpenOffice or any of its components, 
though, or to do what it does.  I'm told it t does a pretty good job of 
reading documents produced by Microshaft Office programs, and of creating 
documents that those programs can read.  That can be important.

If I'm mistaken about the lack of such text-based access, I'd be grateful 
for correction.

Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cleverson" <clever92000 at yahoo.com.br>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide


Hi Zack,

In fact, I don't know if the term "desktop" aplies to people who prefer
command line programs rather than graphical ones, but I really think there
is no reason to use a graphical environment, since text mode is faster and I
think there are console programs for any task.

For blind users, perhaps the only difference is that in text mode you should
memorize some command strings instead of key strokes. Nothing's hard, to me
at least...

Cheers,
Cleverson

"Be realistic; ask for the impossible."



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