[BRLTTY] Typing/reading braille combinations
Raoul MEGELAS
rmgls at wanadoo.fr
Sun Apr 16 06:27:38 EDT 2006
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:50:43AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Raoul MEGELAS, le Sun 16 Apr 2006 07:23:26 +0200, a écrit :
> > > The idea is hold the alt and altgr keys pressed, and then use the
> > > keyboard's asdfjkl; keys for entering braille patterns just like on
> > > a usual braille device.
> >
> > and just a point:
for typesetting music with one hand while reading with the other...
as i had done with the very old keyboards.
> Mmm, I'm not sure to understand: "jkl;nm" are 6 keys while sdfvb are
> 5 keys. Which fingers do you use for which key?
a better position for the thumb:
on a french kenboard:
jklm
bn
and also as i made formerly on the numeric keypad:
456+
1
0
these positions are quite better but have a disadvantage:
for a left hand there is a problem:
qsdf
vb
the B key is implemented to another point!!!
any improvement?
best regards
Raoul
> We can provide a keymap for this.
>
> The problem is that even among good keyboard, they do not all allow any
> keypress dependency: one mine, `b' and `n' can't be pressed while alt
> and altgr are pressed. Maybe we can ask for having a "BrailleLock" key,
> but on my keyboard, this doesn't help much. When "df" are pressed, the
> `b' key doesn't work. I chose asdfjkl; because I found that they were
> the most independent ones on various keyboards.
>
> Regards,
> Samuel
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