synth_direct usage question

[William Hubbs]

Hi Willem,

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:29:15AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> Good day,
> I were under the impression that I can echo a 1 to the synth_direct ebntry 
> in the /sys/accessibility/speakup directory to tell speakup to just pass 
> the punct/special chars directly to the synthesizer.

Actually the sys file you should be using is
/sys/accessibility/speakup/[synthname]/direct for example,
/sys/accessibility/speakup/soft/direct.

The one you are using is for sending text or commands directly to the
synthesizer.

William