Oh how I agree with the subject here, as I must pay for downloads!!

In forte agent (which I use), I have the choice of "forward quoted" (which
puts in the selected character, in my case is the dash); "forward unquoted"
(which puts no character); "forward verbatim" (which to date I have not
worked out how it differs from "forward unquoted" so any Agent users,
please advise me either here or on the blindtech list).

I have not found a way of removing them from the "reply" feature (activated
by 'r' either whilst reading the message or highlighting it within the
message list). With the dash, by setting punctuation level to anything
below "all" will stop the voicing of this whereas > could be voiced for at
least one other level.  I suspect this feature is really intended to aid
visual access so I wonder if a character could be assigned within the ascii
code set such that no screen-reader would voice it (unless the user has
included a definition within the dictionary). 

Colin R. Howard (from across the big ditch).
 On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:47:46 -0400, Karyl Loux <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

-A few days ago, my boss told me that he doesn't forward things to me.  He
-uses Eudora, and he uses the redirect feature rather than the forward
-feature.  This allows him to send me things without all of the greater
than
-signs at the beginning of each line.  Wow, I thought that was cool, but I
-now use Outlook Express and couldn't find a redirect feature.  I continued
-looking and I found that I could choose to have or not have the greater
than
-signs on either email or newsgroups that I wanted to forward.  This was
-wonderful.  I have many things I send on to folks without vision that use
-screen readers.  I no longer have to take the time to clean out those
-greater than signs, as a gesture of courtesy because they aren't even
there.
-If all of us would do the same, it would be a benefit to our audience.  In
-Outlook Express, you go to the Tools menu, the Options sub-menu, then the
-send tab.  At the bottom of the send tab's dialog box is 2 areas one for
-mail sending, the other for news sending.  Each has a button for HTML and
-Plain Text.  Activate each of the buttons, which will bring up dialog
boxes
-with several choices.  At the bottom of these dialog boxes are check boxes
-that activate the greater than symbols on forwarded messages.  Just
unselect
-these boxes, and you are finished with your share of the long list of
-greater thans in forwarded messages.  What a relief.  If we all did this,
-our screen reader colleagues would have a better time of it.
-
-Karyl


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