[BRLTTY] translation and contraction table question
Nicolas Pitre
nico at cam.org
Wed Nov 22 16:57:35 EST 2006
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Scott Haeger on 2006/11/22 at 12:48 -0500]
>
> >1. I am trying to get a better understanding of how to use the
> >translation and contraction table, but I am not having much success.
> >Here is my setup:
> >
> >Brltty is latest from svn and built with default settings.
> >Python bindings to brlapi with the XWindows braille display.
> >Start brltty with brltty -b xw -x no -e -n -l 7 -c en-us-g2.ctb (for
> >contraction)
> >Use script to writeText("altogether") expecting to see "alt" displayed.
> >However, "altogether" is displayed.
>
> The default is for 8-dot braille to be used. You need to switch to 6-dot
> braille in order to enable contracted braille. It looks like the XWindow driver
> doesn't have a button for this.
There is still the Text Style option in the preference menu.
Nicolas
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