<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Per<br></div><div>You need to do two things:<br><br>The first is to speciofy the desired contraction table either via the -c<br>command line option or via the contraction-table brltty.conf directive. If, for<br>example, your friend would like to use US Grade 2 braille, then the contraction<br>table would be en-us-g2. So:<br><br>* On the command line: -c en-us-g2<br>* In brltty.conf: contraction-table en-us-g2<br><br>The second is to turn six-dot mode on. For the Power Braille, the TSI driver's<br>pb.kti file contains the following definition:<br><br> bind Bar1+Bar2+LeftRockerDown SIXDOTS<br><br>If six-dot mode is off then you always get eight-dot computer braille as<br>defined by the currently selected text table (-t or text-table). If six-dot<br>mode is on then there are two possibilities. If a contraction table is defined<br>(-c or contraction-table) then it's used - if one isn't then the computer<br>braille text table is used but dots 7 and 8 are cleared.<br><br>>and no additional flashing characters<br><br>Which characters are "flashing"?</div><div><br></div><div>I did edit the brltty.conf file with<br></div><div>contraction-table en-us-g2<br></div><div><br></div><div>I also added a text table, but neither of these helped.<br></div><div>I will try the above key sequence to turn on six-dot braille.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The extra flashing characters are colons and dots for two. <br></div></div></body></html>