speakup and ligatures

speakup and ligatures

[Zachary Kline]

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.

Re: speakup and ligatures

[Samuel Thibault]

Zachary Kline, le Sun 07 Feb 2010 21:27:49 -0800, a écrit :
> 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?

You'd first need to load a kernel font that contains the ligature
glyphs.  Then speakup would need to be Unicode-aware, which it is not
(yet).  So there's no user option to enable that yet.

Samuel

Re: speakup and ligatures

[Kirk Reiser]

I have my distribution's character set set to utf8 and most of the
common character extensions are spoken correctly when they are
reviewed accross.  They sometimes screw up word pronunciation of the
words with multi-language characters however.


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Re: speakup and ligatures

[Samuel Thibault]

Kirk Reiser, le Mon 08 Feb 2010 09:22:30 -0500, a écrit :
> I have my distribution's character set set to utf8 and most of the
> common character extensions are spoken correctly when they are
> reviewed accross.

Yes, because the kernel turns them into characters between 0 and 255.
But for characters that are not in latin1, speakup has no support.

Samuel

Re: speakup and ligatures

[Kirk Reiser]

True.

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Kirk Reiser, le Mon 08 Feb 2010 09:22:30 -0500, a ?crit :
>> I have my distribution's character set set to utf8 and most of the
>> common character extensions are spoken correctly when they are
>> reviewed accross.
>
> Yes, because the kernel turns them into characters between 0 and 255.
> But for characters that are not in latin1, speakup has no support.
>
> Samuel
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e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061