Comment 1 by Ahiiron on 2011-08-05 21:37
You should be able to hit NVDA+P to toggle the punctuation globally.

Comment 2 by jteh on 2011-08-05 22:42
As noted in comment:1, we already have a global command to switch levels. Do you still feel the need for custom levels even so?

Comment 4 by mehgcap on 2011-08-05 23:10
Sorry, I forgot about the punctuation switching command. Yes, I still feel that custom levels would be very useful, even more so now that I know a command to quickly select one is already in place. Better still, let an application select a level automatically (this is probably in an application script). So, for instance, switching to an IDE selects your programming level, focusing on IE, Firefox, or another browser selects a different level, and so forth.

Comment 5 by m11chen on 2011-08-06 04:54
Hi,

I think it would be pretty easy to make modifications to the appModules for the different applications to have auto switching of punctuation levels. In my view, NVDA's developers intentionally designed the structure of the screen reader to allow for the flexibility of implementing small custom functionality such as this one. This has been made even easier with the introduction of globalPlugins. Every user has different needs and it would be impossible to include everyone's particular preferences without introducing a large overhead of settings, as is the case of some commercial screen readers such as JAWS. I think the resulting time spent by users is the same for users in both cases, in that if NVDA users want simple enhancements to existing functionality, one would need to spend a little time getting familiar with python and the structure of NVDA to make changes to one's personal version of NVDA. JAWS users would need to dig through the immensely large amount of built-in settings to find the exact one that matches one's need.

Comment 6 by briang1 on 2011-08-06 14:28
I have actually hijacked the Some punctuation level for my custom setting via the editor, so that the list of symbols in some is not as per the default.
I guess you could do this to all of them , well two of them if you wish. I have also changed the way some are spoken too.
However, maybe the answer to the last comment is for somone to suggest some way to do this modification. Surely at the moment, one would need the source of the app module which exists and then add some commands to it to achieve what is envisaged.
Probably beyond most people who are just users. I know what you mean though about other screenreaders functions and stuff. they all have huge trees of things to alter.

If I understand mehgcap correctly, shouldn't this be possible via customized symbol pronunciations for an app-specific profile? CC @Brian1Gaff and @jcsteh to elucidate

I think profiles are the correct way to deal with this. You could trigger profiles for specific apps or manually switch profiles. There are open requests for faster manual switching of profiles (though I don't have issue numbers offhand). Closing as won't fix.

One of the issues you are looking for is #4209