Emacspeak News --History Of User-Visible Changes $Id: NEWS-14.0 4047 2006-08-11 19:11:17Z tv.raman.tv $ Author: T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu> * Emacspeak 14.0 Additions And Changes: Emacspeak 14.0 provides the following user level enhancements: * New Emacspeak Features: ** XML Authoring Using XAE XAE is an XML authoring environment put together by the author of JDE. ** Form-based Editting Of Audtory Display Settings Personal audio mixer settings can be modified using a forms-based user interface. ** Semantic Support Within JDE Uses knowledge computed by the semantic package in better speech-enabling JDE. ** URL Templates Module emacspeak-url-template provides a programmable hot list mechanism. ** Filtering Text Allows text to be progressively refined. ** Overlaying Grids On Tabulated Information Grid overlays allow one to quickly skim selected portions of every line in the buffer or given region of text. The result of overlaying the grid is presented in emacspeak's table browsing mode. This is useful in working with log files. ** Speech-enables EShell EShel is a complete shell implemented in Emacs Lisp. Emacspeak speech-enables eshell to provide a powerful integrated shell. ** Table Browsing: Enhancement to how tables are handled. Additional features include sorting data on a specific column. ** Customizations To Auditory Display Provides customization options for use with sound cards that provide multiple channels of output. ** Emacs 21 Support: Supports many new Emacs 21 packages. ** Dictionary Server: Speech-enables interaction with dictionary servers. ** Speech-enables ERC: ERC is a relatively modern Emacs IRC client. This version of emacspeak speech-enables most of this package. ** Convenience Commands: *** Convenience Command emacspeak-cvs-get-anonymous Command emacspeak-cvs-get-anonymous bound to c-e c-down can be used to retrieve a snapshot of the latest Emacspeak sources from Sourceforge. This will retrieve the source code into the users home directory under ~/cvs-emacspeak. *** Convenience command emacspeak-root Convenience command emacspeak-root bound to C-e C-r launches a root shell or switches to one if it already exists. Command emacspeak-eterm-remote-term bound to C-e C-r in earlier versions is now on C-e M-C-r Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: