[BRLTTY] Cursor Routing Commands for Multi-Line Braille Displays

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Jul 7 06:02:29 UTC 2025


Hello,

Elijah Massey, le dim. 06 juil. 2025 13:51:18 -0500, a ecrit:
> the ROUTE_LINE command moves the cursor to a specific row.

I didn't even know about this one.

> I tried just sending ROUTE, with the column parameter set to the index of the Braille character in the matrix, so for the first character of line 3 I would pass 64.

That should be it, brltty indeed decodes positions this way.

> However, this never moved the cursor beyond the first line.

Then it's a bug in the routing protocol in brltty and just needs fixing.

Samuel


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