Aid for dislexia

Aid for dislexia

[Tim Johnson]

Although I am primarily a coder, I also belong to a writer's group.
One of the members is dislexic. She has a problem reading her own
writing out loud. I note that what works for her is to touch every
word with the eraser of a pencil.

It occurs to me that what may help her to read from a
netbook/computer would be an emacs mode in which words would be
highlighted successively using 'forward-word. 

Anyone know of such a mode?

thanks
-- 
Tim 
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com

Re: Aid for dislexia

[Dmitry]

Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:

> Although I am primarily a coder, I also belong to a writer's group.
> One of the members is dislexic. She has a problem reading her own
> writing out loud. I note that what works for her is to touch every
> word with the eraser of a pencil.
>
> It occurs to me that what may help her to read from a
> netbook/computer would be an emacs mode in which words would be
> highlighted successively using 'forward-word. 
>
> Anyone know of such a mode?

https://github.com/zk-phi/spray/ looks like it does something similar,
judgin by the animated gif.

I haven't tried it, though.

Re: Aid for dislexia

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hi,

I think you can simply misuse `hl-line-mode' for the highlighting,
e.g. like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(progn
  (require 'thingatpt)
  (setq-default
   hl-line-range-function
   (lambda () (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'word))
   hl-line-face 'trailing-whitespace)
  (global-hl-line-mode))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


Combined with word moving commands (M-left, M-right), I think it's
already quite what you want.


Michael.