DinoMark reads aloud
DinoMark now reads your files aloud, with voices that are on your computer. On top of that come bigger buttons with names, shortcuts of your own, explanations in plain language and code colours for colour blindness.
From version 0.1.92 to 0.1.106 DinoMark was all about being easy to use for everyone.
Reading aloud
- A button at the top reads the file aloud from the first paragraph you can see. The sentence being spoken is marked, and the page follows along.
- Ctrl+Shift+V pauses and goes on, Esc stops. Ctrl+Shift+Up and Down move by paragraph, and while DinoMark is reading, a click into a paragraph jumps there.
- You choose the voice and the speed under Settings > Hilfen > Vorlesen, and "Stimme anhören" plays a sample. If you have not picked a fixed voice and the head of the file says
lang: en, DinoMark takes an English voice when there is one. - DinoMark only uses voices that are on your computer. None of it goes to the internet.
Controls
- One switch makes the buttons bigger with more room between them, another one puts their names next to the icons at the top.
- When you work with the keyboard, the frame around the selected element can be stronger and have a colour of its own: the accent colour, yellow, orange, blue or pink.
- Difficult settings have a question mark next to them. A click explains them in plain language.
Keyboard shortcuts
- You set every shortcut yourself. DinoMark tells you when a combination doesn't work or is already taken.
- New are Ctrl+O to open a file and Ctrl+Shift+L to switch between light and dark.
Reading
- For colour blindness there are code colours that stay easy to tell apart, with red-green and blue-yellow colour blindness too.
- The text can now be set up to twice its normal size.
- All of this sits in the settings in the new group "Hilfen".
DinoMark is still in development.