[BRLTTY] Stand-alone portable document viewer for braille display?

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Jun 10 10:36:57 EDT 2007


Hi,

Tomas Valusek, le Sun 10 Jun 2007 16:30:49 +0200, a écrit :
> So I¨d like to have some sort of text viewer displaying its 
> output on Braille display and being controlled mainly by Braille display 
> buttons, which would run along with other app, controlled visually. 

Brlapi permits this.

> Would it be so hard to incorporate BRLTTY as extension into vim or 
> emacs, so that their window contents would be displayed on Braille?

speechd-el already has a brlapi output facility. I guess vim could be
extended for using brlapi too.

> Or provide simple plain text viewer with its output on Braille?

Sebastien wrote one called "bless", but it's not released yet.

> I'd like to use such a tool on Windows.

The windows porting of all this is recent, but it should work.

Samuel


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