Character pronounciation

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:52:29PM -0800, Hart Larry wrote:
> An example, yesterday some1 posted the path where
> the characters file could fix the letter zee.
> So I go there-and-with sudo in nano
> I edit that file, make all my changes.
> Once I exit, the file is automaticly set back
> to defaults.  Maybe I should do
> a chmod 755 on that directory.

This sounds to me more like user error, rather than inadequate
functionality on the part of speakup or gnu/linux. I'll try to help by
addressing your concerns above one by one. First, you don't want to
open the characters file in a editor like nano. What you want to do is
to make a copy of it, perhaps in your home directory, with cp. Once
you've made a copy of it, open that copy in nano, and do with it what
you need to do. Then, you need to cat your copy to speakup's
characters file with a command similar to this:
cat $HOME/characters >/sys/module/speakup/parameters/characters

Note that speakup's characters file will be back to the defaults when
you reboot, and maybe if you switch synths, (I'm not sure on
that). So, you need to put the above command into a script that runs
at boot. As for your comment about doing chmod 755 on that directory,
/sys/module/speakup/parameters is already at 755 on all of my systems,
and I suspect that this is the norm, and not an exception. If you were
to change permissions on that directory, I also suspect that this
change would also not stick across reboots, unless it was in a script,
but I could be wrong here too. Hth.

Greg


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