[BRLTTY] Contracted Braille

Jackie McBride abletec at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 14:53:12 EDT 2018


O, duh--I apologize. :blush:

On 11/3/18, Brian Tew <montanalag at gmail.com> wrote:
> He did.
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Jackie McBride <abletec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Could you tell us the operating system & screenreader your friend is
> using, please?
>
>> On 11/3/18, wmichaelb at fuse.net <wmichaelb at fuse.net> wrote:
>> I'm helping a blind friend and have supplied to him a decent Dell desktop
>> running Debian 9.4 with brltty. He is using the PowerBraille 80 system.
>> I've managed to figure out how to get the correct driver loaded, and how
>> to
>>
>> change the rocker bar configuration. But what he needs is English
>> contracted
>>
>> braille with capital letters and no additional flashing dots. In his DOS
>> system,
>> he can access that setting by pushing concave + convex, but those buttons
>> don't seem to respond in brltty. I've read the documentation about
>> contraction
>> files and text files, but still haven't been able to put this together.
>> What
>> config
>> settings are needed to give English contracted braille with capital
>> letters
>> and
>> no additional flashing characters? Thanks in advance.
>>
>
>
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