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This section assumes
that AsTeR has been installed and initialized. (See a:setup for
details of the software and hardware configuration.) At this
point, text within any file being visited in Emacs (in
general, text in any Emacs buffer) can be rendered in
audio. To listen to a piece of text, mark it using standard
Emacs commands and invoke read-aloud-region[+]. This results in the marked
text being audio formatted using a standard rendering style.
The text can constitute an entire document or book; it could
also be a short paragraph or a single equation from a document
-AsTeR renders both partial and complete documents. This is the
simplest and also the most common type of interaction with
AsTeR .
The input may be plain ASCII text; in this case,
AsTeR will recognize the minimal document structure present
-e.g., paragraph breaks and quoted text. On the other
hand, La)TeX markup helps AsTeR recognize more of the logical
structure and, as a consequence, produce more sophisticated
renderings.
TV Raman
Thu Mar 9 20:10:41 EST 1995