How do I get to learn Linux & SpeakUp? Re: How to use espeakup

[Peter Tesar]

Where do I get this useful information? I would like to get started using 
Linux. I haven't been successful with the distribution CD that I downloaded 
and burned.

You wrote:
> People are not supposed to find useful information *here*, they're
> supposed to find useful information in the *Notice*, which is
> spkguide.txt and the manual pages, not this list (

All I have to work with is Windows XP and JAWS. I thought that it would be 
easier to chat with someone on your Reflector. The information sent me 
through this list service didn't help. Maybe I am doing something wrong or 
nobody is there to chat.

Your web site http://linux-speakup.org/ is not helpful.
Can anyone help?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: How to use espeakup, revisited...


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> People are not supposed to find useful information *here*, they're
> supposed to find useful information in the *Notice*, which is
> spkguide.txt and the manual pages, not this list (as that would mean
> that users would have to either browse the archive (tedious), or ask
> a question, wait, get an answer, ask another question, wait again,
> etc.). We clearly said that we welcome contributions to these (I
> personnally have absolutely no time atm to work on it, but can gladly
> commit).
> Obviously, no one with any sense would dispute the fact that the most 
> efficient way to figure out how to use speakup is to read the 
> documentation. But I do have a suggestion that I think would save a lot of 
> headaches for us users. I think that the development team should try to 
> use this list as a way to notify users of changes.
>
> For example, I don't think any notice was posted to this list about the 
> switch from cvs to git. I used to use the shell script that came with 
> speakup to download updates. All of a sudden it stopped wworking. I read 
> this list almost every day and I never saw that coming.
>
> Obviously, I don't mean this as a criticism. I think you guys do fantastic 
> work. I'm just saying that you could probably help a lot of people to 
> avoid a lot of headaches if you posted messages here when such changes 
> occured. And this stuff happens all the time. For example, there was the 
> recent discussion about creating a file for a flag to indicate whether the 
> synth was active or not. How are we going to know when that gets done? I 
> guess I can keep browsing the documentation but wouldn't it make sense 
> just to post a notification of that kind of thing to this list?
>
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