[BRLTTY] Absolute basics

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed Oct 27 11:31:00 EDT 2010


Dave Mielke, le Wed 27 Oct 2010 11:25:41 -0400, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Andy Jack on 2010/10/27 at 15:55 +0100]
> 
> >I still have not figured out how to input braille from the Braillenote (the 
> >guy I'm doing this for has a strong preference for using the Perkins Brailler 
> >style input rather than a QWERTY keyboard)
> 
> It can be done but it's a bit tricky. The reason for this is that the 
> BrailleNote's braille keyboard keys are used for navigation as well as for 
> input, and, when used for input, there really aren't any keys for dots 7 and 8.

Also, to get correct emulation in X, you need to run xbrlapi in your X
session which will handle that properly.

Samuel


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