[BRLTTY] Braille editor

Jan Mura jan.mura at volny.cz
Thu Nov 1 00:33:57 EDT 2007


Thank you very much for advices.

Jan Mura
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." 
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Braille editor


Hi,

Jan Mura, le Wed 31 Oct 2007 22:49:49 +0100, a écrit :
> I would like to ask if anybody knows about some Braille editor.
> It means, the editor which use just 6 keys (or 8) and the user cna write
> like on Perkins typing machine.
> So let's say the "s", "d", "f", "j", "k", "l" keys are active and if you
> press
> "f" + "j" + "k"the letter "d" is written down.

There is some support in the Linux kernel for this, see
http://brl.thefreecat.org/linux-brl-console.tgz

That will produce unicode braille dot patterns, which is useful by
itself, but what you'll need is a user daemon that would translate that
into usual text.

Samuel
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