Re: DECTalk Indexing and Emacspeak

["T. V. Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan R Smart <bsmart@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Bryan> This is my current method, but, in lengthy
    Bryan> documents such as computerized books, an
    Bryan> incremental search is not the best method for
    Bryan> finding your current position.  

Again, if you are reading computerized books you should be
relying on Emacs' outlining features to read the book a
chapter at a time 

 Bryan>The best way that
    Bryan> I have found to get around this is to wait to
    Bryan> hear an infrequently used word, and use it in the
    Bryan> search.  Do you believe that all forms of
    Bryan> indexing will produce some sort of problem that
    Bryan> offsets the benefits, or is it more of a problem
    Bryan> of insufficient time to code such a feature?

A combination of both. 
You may be able to refute the former by putting effort into
the latter.

    Bryan> ---Original Message--- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999
    Bryan> 11:34:40 -0800 (PST) Cc: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
    Bryan> Reply-To: raman@xxxxxxxxxxx From: "T. V. Raman"
    Bryan> <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>

    Bryan>    stop speech and do an incremental search on
    Bryan> the word you heard last.

    Bryan>    -- Best Regards, --raman

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Best Regards,
--raman

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