[BRLTTY] Some more things for v4.4

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 30 May 2012, Eric Scheibler wrote:

> 1. Announcing of capitals still doesn't work if I set the "raise
> pitch" method. Letters are spoken with a higher pitch but also are doubled.
> If I type "jJ" on the command line I get "jJJ" and sometimes also "jJJJJ".
> As far as I could test this happens with all letters. With the "say cap"
> option all is ok.

What is the speech driver you use?  I've observed the same thing with 
the eSpeak driver as changing the pitch somehow appears to take CPU time 
away from the keyboard event processing, and my presumption is that the 
key release events are delayed long enough for the auto-repeat action to 
kick in.

> 3. Could you add a fourth choice in the speak punctuation level option?
> Copy the settings from "some" and add the chars "/" and "-" please.

BRLTTY is not making any filtering on the punctuation character es.  It 
relies on the speech synthesizer to do the job.  Now if you are using 
eSpeak, you can modify the list of pronounced punctuation when the level 
is set to "some" by passing BRLTTY the -S argument with -S and
es:punctlist= followed by the  list of characters you want pronounced in 
that mode. For example:

	brltty -s es -S es:punctlist="/-"

If you are using another speech synthesizer then there is probably an 
equivalent setting possibly in some config file specific to that 
synthesizer.

> 4. This refers to brltty's copy / paste feature: Is it possible to keep the
> line break when I copy more than one line into the buffer?

Yes: you need to use the rectangular copy function.


Nicolas