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Hey.
My name is ahmed, and I have a blind friend called rami. He uses windows
xp with jaws for his daily work. He asked me some time ago to find
something that would enable him to learn programming.
I tried finding something on windows. I don't use windows myself, but
after trying a little on his system (jaws on windows xp), it seemed that
jaws does not supprt the windows command line, which is a serious
problem considering that it is needed for one to learn programming.
After that I found out about emacspeak, and tried to install it on my
system (suse linux 10). The installation worked with one minor problem,
namely, I had to give it the ignore-dependencies parameter, because it
kept looking for /bin/tcl and couldn't find it. I made /bin/tcl a link
to /bin/tclsh. I hope this works. After that I installed the speech
synthesizer festival and some voices for it. The voices were trial
versions from a company called cepstral, and there was a slight problem
in the installation, but the very helpful cepstral support helped me
through it (the installer forgot to create two symbolic links).
I have two questions now, if that is ok.
The first one is about starting emacspeak. I have never used emacs, and
I'm not sure how to start emacspeak. I searched the web for answers, but
the few emacspeak tutorials found were aimed at people with more emacs
experience than me. So could you please help me a little here, or point
me at the relevant documentation?
The second question is : is emacs really a good solution here? My friend
rami wants to lean programming, which is complicated enough in itself,
without forcing him to leam linux and emacs, too. Is there a simpler
solution, preferably on windows? or on Linux? or do you think that
emacspeak is the best option?
Thank you very much in advance.
Ahmed,
Damascus, Syria.
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