[BRLTTY] Typing/reading braille combinations

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Apr 18 13:06:44 EDT 2006


Samuel Thibault, le Mon 17 Apr 2006 22:38:45 +0200, a écrit :
> Dave Mielke, le Sun 16 Apr 2006 23:46:29 -0400, a écrit :
> > [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2006/04/16 at 23:28 +0200]
> > 
> > >- if given parameter -l, sets [qa]sdfbv to dots 321456
> > 
> > Does this mean that v is dot 6 and b is dot 5? That seems counter-intuitive to
> > me. Shouldn't v be dot 5 and b be dot 6 since b is to the right of v?
> 
> Well, I actually don't know what is intuive :)
> Maybe there was some typo in some mail that made me thought it would be
> better for the thumb to have dot 5 on b and dot 6 on v, since for the
> thumb, b would be "above" v.

(For the left thumb, I mean: the target of [qa]sdfbv binding is for
typing braille with just one hand).


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