From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from new1.smtp.messagingengine.com (new1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.221]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A171B1045B for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:27:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D451DF717 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:27:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:27:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=MRu2GIORfHkHkvhbnZBEodVqO5o=; b=ej+MBQlYVlfdcccgBl6afC4XdZJhnIRz3c2EPhKdE8aEtIID67gMceGAIH5Nu0DDiFWNPqoibiJ4kYL343cQbtYH7FB2v3HcsOlBabCdsckiR2PY/rlkSOvujxdQHqTpDtBbhGzjBAh517Gtug7xM8bhWkMhoz1oTvrHIK2hMcU= X-Sasl-enc: URS2MwcD5L354PJDjerw47Ad0VoNDxXIvR93wMyIAo2e 1265606871 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (128-193-247-73.resnet.oregonstate.edu [128.193.247.73]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62BB94C026C for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:27:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:27:49 -0800 (PST) From: Zachary Kline X-X-Sender: zkline@hawk.zacknet To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: speakup and ligatures Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:27:52 -0000 Hi All, I've begun reading tutorials and information on the LaTeX typesetting system. Many of these are in the form of PDF files, which edbrowse quite readily converts and displays for me. Quite often, these PDFs were prepared by LaTeX itself. The system has a habbit of inserting ligatures whenever common letter combinations are used. These are rendered in utf-8, I believe. Speakup reads them all as "null". They should rather be read as the combination they are, such as "fi" or "ff". Is there any file I can modify to get speakup to read these properly? It isn't too much trouble for me to figure out from context what they are, but it'd be wonderful if Speakup could just do the right thing in these situations. Thanks much for any advice, Zack.