[BRLTTY] Typing/reading braille combinations

[Raoul MEGELAS]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:11:56PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Answering to myself:
> 
> Samuel Thibault, le Sat 11 Mar 2006 02:39:23 +0100, a écrit :
> > Sometimes, one needs to type a braille character "as is", i.e. so that
> > it is recorded as a braille combination only, and not interpreted as a
> > letter (unicode utf-8 encoding permits that). This would be useful for
> > writing braille tables for instance. Another instance is a mail that we
> > got some time ago:
> > 
> > « Why my "e acute" letters are displayed this way: "é" ? »
> > 
> > This shows that he missed the way to type a "raw" braille combination :)
> > 
> > I guess the way "raw" braille combinations should be typed would depend
> > on the braille device: a "prefix" key combination for instance. Maybe
> > brltty driver authors should think about this?
> 
> Some support for this was added to linux kernel 2.6.17-rc1. Fonts and
> keymaps should get added to distributions. For now, some are available
> on http://brl.thefreecat.org/linux-brl-console.tgz .
> 
> The idea is hold the alt and altgr keys pressed, and then use the
> keyboard's asdfjkl; keys for entering braille patterns just like on
> a usual braille device.

and just a point:

jkl;nm and sdfvb (left/right hand)

for typesetting music with one hand while reading with the other...
as i had done with the very old keyboards.

regards.

Raoul