[BRLTTY] Braille editor

[Samuel Thibault]

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