[BRLTTY] new user with problems

[S. Massy]

Hello,

Glad it worked.

You can choose the contraction table to be used from the command-line
using the "-c" switch: you probably want something like "-c en-us-g2".
You'll need to refer to the help on your specific device to find out
what kkeystrokes will toggle grade 2 contraction on and off. You might
also want to find out what keystrokes activate the preferences menu for
your device and further configure brltty from there, save defaults, etc.

Cheers,
S.M.


On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:59:53PM -0600, Rob Hudson wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running brllty 4.3. I'm going to make uninstall and try a
> default configuration and see if that fixes it.
> Well it said you're supposed to edit the braille.h in the readme in
> that directory, so that's what I did. I'll try that command line and
> see what happens after hte default install.
> Ah that seemed to fix it. Now, how can I get it to read with a grade
> 2 braille  table?
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "S. Massy" <lists at wolfdream.ca>
> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY."
> <brltty at mielke.cc>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] new user with problems
> 
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have no experience with Braillelite devices, so can't help there. This
> >said, I find it strange that you need to edit a header file (haven't
> >needed to do that in about a decade): what version of brltty are you
> >using? Also, beware of typos in command-line, they can be an absolute
> >bane while trying to set up braille output, at least they have been for
> >me at times.
> >
> >With a sound default of brltty installed, I'm pretty sure all you should
> >need to do is:
> ># brltty -b bl -d /dev/ttyS0 -t nabcc
> >
> >I'm sure Braillelite users will fill in the details.
> >
> >hth,
> >S.M.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:40:07PM -0600, Rob Hudson wrote:
> >>Hi, I installed brltty on arch with the following arguments:
> >>./configure --with-braille-driver=bl --with-device+/dev/ttS0
> >>For a braille lite 18.
> >>I edited the braille.h so that it looks like this:
> >>/*
> >>
> >>* BRLTTY - A background process providing access to the console
> >>screen (when in
> >>
> >>* text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display.
> >>
> >>*
> >>
> >>* Copyright (C) 1995-2011 by The BRLTTY Developers.
> >>
> >>*
> >>
> >>* BRLTTY comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> >>
> >>*
> >>
> >>* This is free software, placed under the terms of the
> >>
> >>* GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software
> >>
> >>* Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
> >>
> >>* later version. Please see the file LICENSE-GPL for details.
> >>
> >>*
> >>
> >>* Web Page: http://mielke.cc/brltty/
> >>
> >>*
> >>
> >>* This software is maintained by Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc>.
> >>
> >>*/
> >>
> >>/* BrailleLite/braille.h - Configurable definitions for the
> >>Braille Lite driver
> >>
> >>* N. Nair, 6 September 1998
> >>
> >>*
> >>
> >>* Edit as necessary for your system.
> >>
> >>*/
> >>
> >>/* used by speech.c */
> >>
> >>#include "io_serial.h"
> >>
> >>extern SerialDevice *BL_serialDevice;
> >>
> >>/* We always expect 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit. */
> >>
> >>/* Select baudrate to use */
> >>
> >>#define BAUDRATE 9600
> >>
> >>//#define BAUDRATE 38400
> >>
> >>/* Define the following for dots to character mapping for input to use
> >>
> >>the same (user-defined) table as is used for output, instead of the
> >>
> >>hard-coded US table. */
> >>
> >>#define USE_TEXTTRANS
> >>
> >>I set the baud rate on the blt to 9600 and I ran this command::
> >>brltty=bl,ttS0,en_US
> >>And I didn't see anything. Did I forget something?
> >
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> >
> >
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