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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 07:56:02 -0400
From: Dave Tweed <dtweed AT acm DOT org>
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Subject: Re: quoting and listening
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Jim Stevenson wrote:
> Several have suggested quote filters for screen reade programs.

Actually, we were suggesting filters for the mail reader, or ones that
might go between the mail reader and the speech synthesizer. In order
to be more specific, we'd have to know what you're using for mail and
for a "screen reader".

I gather from the term "screen reader" that it literally reads what's
on the text-mode screen, perhaps by reading from the video memory space
directly. If so, it shouldn't be all that hard to filter the mail so
that it shows up on the screen in the desired sequence and in digestable
amounts.

> These programs do *not* come with source code. So our only hope would
> be to talk the developer into creating them. But nobody is upgrading
> dos screen readers any more.

That's too bad. If they've abandoned development, maybe they could be
persuaded to release the source code for others to maintain. But as I
said before, modifying the screen reader shouldn't really be necessary.

-- Dave