[BRLTTY] Getting my braille driver for the FCHAD working.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by timothyhobbs at seznam.cz on 2012/10/18 at 20:37 +0200]

>I have to figure out if the user is left handed or right handed.  This is not 
>yet defined by the standard that I wrote.  There are several options:  brltty 
>could provide this information, and this information could be global to 
>brltty.  My driver could take a special parameter or save a special settings 
>file to the users home directory.  This information could be stored on the 
>device.  What do you recommend?

This is the first time that this issue has come up as braille devices tend to 
be used by both hands. For my own curiosity, what would such an option do? 
Would it reverse the controls in some way?

The normal way we handle driver-specific needs is to use driver-specific 
parameters. A driver-specific parameter is passed to the driver via the -B 
(uppercase) command line option or via the braille-parameters directive within 
the brltty.conf file. The syntax of the operand is:

   xx:name=value

The xx, here, is the two-letter driver code. I forget what your two-letter 
driver code is, so let's assume it's th (your initials). Then, for example, 
specifying the parameter would look something like this:

   -Bth:handedness=left

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