Using Emacspeak HOWTO

Jennifer Jobst

jobst@us.ibm.com

October 19, 2001

Revision History
Revision 1.0October 19, 2001Revised by: JEJ

This document helps Emacspeak users become familiar with Emacs as an audio desktop and provides tutorials on many common tasks and the Emacs applications available to perform those tasks.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. What is Emacspeak?
1.2. About this tutorial
2. Before you begin
2.1. Getting started with Emacs and Emacspeak
2.2. Emacs Command Conventions
2.3. Getting Help
2.3.1. Getting help in Emacs
2.3.2. Getting help on Emacspeak commands
2.3.3. Viewing the Linux online man pages
3. System Administration
3.1. Changing your password
3.2. Installing applications
3.2.1. About Emacs applications
3.2.2. Downloading your application
3.2.3. Uncompressing files
3.2.4. Installing RPMs
4. Working with files
4.1. Downloading files
4.2. Finding a file
4.3. FTPing a file
4.4. Manipulating files
4.4.1. Using the command line
4.4.2. Using the directory editor
5. Working online
5.1. Browsing the Internet
5.2. Chatting online
5.2.1. AOL Instant Messenger for Emacs (TNT)
5.2.2. ERC
5.3. Using e-mail
5.3.1. VM
5.3.2. Rmail
6. Productivity
6.1. Coding in Emacs
6.2. Customizing Emacspeak
6.2.1. Changing the speech rate
6.2.2. Auditory Icons for Emacspeak
6.3. Reading Adobe Acrobat files
6.3.1. Using Xpdf
6.3.2. Using Adobe's converter
6.4. Scheduling appointments and calendar events
6.5. Writing text in Emacs
6.5.1. Writing for print, PDF, or postscript
6.5.2. Writing for online viewing
7. Entertainment
7.1. Burning a CD
7.2. Playing CDs
7.3. Playing mp3s
7.4. Playing games
8. Acknowledgments
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