Question re speech functionality

[Phebe Anggreani]

On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 11:26  am, Rick Mathes wrote:
> My question regards Outliner's speech functionality.  I've searched 
> the FAQ,
> the usergroup archives and the help functionality as well as a general
> google search and have come up dry.  If I highlight a row in my 
> outline and
> right click, at the bottom I can click on speech and a voice will 
> speak what
> I wrote.  What I'm trying to find out is if this is just a novelty
> (doubtful) or is the something that can be used as a tool in some 
> fashion?
> How are people using this feature?

I rarely use speech, but many text-based apps in Mac use speech from 
long time ago. I suppose some prefer listening while doing something 
else to reading.

> Second, is there a way to copy a format from one row and apply it to 
> another
> (like a Edit/Copy, then Edit/Paste Format function)?  I've formatted my
> levels but there's one section where I don't want the level formatting 
> to
> apply just because it doesn't drive down to the same detail and it 
> looks
> funky.  As I add new rows to this section it applies (correctly) the
> formatting I chose for that level, which I then have to manually undo.
> Being able to copy formats from one row to another would be helpful.

You can copy fonts (command-3) and paste fonts style (command-4). 
This'll copy/paste font face, size, color, attributes (bold, underline, 
etc.) To copy paragraph formats (tabs, indents) use command-1, to paste 
paragraph format, use command-2.

hth,
pb