Emacspeak User's Guide

Jennifer Jobst

jobst@us.ibm.com

December 4, 2001

Revision History
Revision 1.2 December 3, 2001 Revised by: JEJ
Changed license to GFDL
Revision 1.1 November 12, 2001 Revised by: JEJ
Revision 1.0 DRAFT October 19, 2001 Revised 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. Legal Notice
2. Introduction
2.1. What is Emacspeak?
2.2. About this tutorial
3. Before you begin
3.1. Getting started with Emacs and Emacspeak
3.2. Emacs Command Conventions
3.3. Getting Help
4. System Administration
4.1. Changing your password
4.2. Installing applications
5. Working with files
5.1. Downloading files
5.2. Finding a file
5.3. FTPing a file
5.4. Manipulating files
6. Working online
6.1. Browsing the Internet
6.2. Chatting online
6.3. Using e-mail
7. Productivity
7.1. Coding in Emacs
7.2. Customizing Emacspeak
7.3. Reading Adobe Acrobat files
7.4. Scheduling appointments and calendar events
7.5. Writing text in Emacs
8. Entertainment
8.1. Burning a CD
8.2. Playing CDs
8.3. Playing mp3s
8.4. Playing games
9. Acknowledgments
10. Wish list for version 2.0