[BRLTTY] brltty and liblouis

[Alexander Epaneshnikov]

21.10.2020 13:06, Dave Mielke пишет:

> [quoted lines by Alexander Epaneshnikov on 2020/10/21 at 02:22 +0300]
>
>> i compiled brltty with liblouis support. but when i switching tables in orca
>> nothing changes.
> Yes, that's correct. Orca does its own text-to-braille translation so what it
> gives brltty is already braille - not text.
>
hmm. thanks for info. will look into orca logs.
>> 1. how do i change brltty table into liblouis one?
> You can only do that when using a text console (or brltty's AtSpi2 screen
> driver). You can use the -c command line option or the contracitin-table
> brltty.conf directive, just like for any of brltty's own contraction tables.
> Since brltty doesn't know where liblouis is, (at least at this point) you need
> to give the absolute path to the table. Also, you need to prefix that path with
> louis: so that brltty knows that it's a liblouis table.
>
is this info available in manual? if not i think it should be added.
>> 2. why brltty isn't reacting to orca table change?
> Explained above. It's because Orca translates the text to braille before
> passing that braille along to brltty.
>
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Sincerely, Alexander.