[BRLTTY] Typing/reading braille combinations

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue May 2 16:35:09 EDT 2006


Hi,

Samuel Thibault, le Sun 16 Apr 2006 23:04:59 +0200, a écrit :
> Raoul MEGELAS, le Sun 16 Apr 2006 22:32:49 +0200, a écrit :
> > > The problem here is that the _keyboard_ doesn't report the keypress,
> > > because it is physically limited.
> > 
> > here i can make a chord with jbn then lkm
> > points 123 first then 456. with this combination i think we could go.
> > in other words one char = 2 chord strokes. Isn't it?
> 
> Well, why not. But this needs to be implemented in the kernel.

This is done and will be available in 2.6.17-rc4 (and 2.6.17 of course).
You will be able to configure this thanks to
/sys/modules/keyboard/parameters/brl_nbchords
(default is 1).

Samuel


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