[BRLTTY] Brltty on the mac again.

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Why would you have to run it in screen?

Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak at gmail.com> wrote:

> While voiceover on the Mac supports many braille displays, I don't find it as easy to navigate in terminal that way as with brltty. Also I can read brf files easily using brltty in terminal where trying to read brf files in Text Edit on the Mac gives me extra linefeed characters and such which make reading the brf files on the Mac not an optimal experience imo.
> 
> As for compiling on the Mac using speech and voiceover, you have to do some interacting and moving to the bottom of the screen in terminal and then working backwards to see your results but it is possible to compile in terminal with speech albeit it's much easier once you have brltty installed. Also it's possible to run a compiling command and send the output to a file so that when it's done you can just open the file and see whether the command succeeded or had errors.
> Remember that you will have to run brltty in screen. Also if your braille display is being recognized by voiceover you probably have to turn voiceover off when running brltty in terminal; as far as I know there isn't a way to make brltty and voiceover's braille to play nicely together, as in using voiceover on the rest of the Mac and brltty in terminal.
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> On Jul 1, 2013, at 10:00 AM, erik burggraaf <erik at erik-burggraaf.com> wrote:
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> > Hi, Voiceover supports many braille displays running usb or bluetooth.  As long as you have a supported braille display, it might be easier to use that.  
> > 
> > I'm also interested in what functionality brltty adds to mac systems.
> > 
> > Thanks for asking.  I hadn't even thought of it.
> > 
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> > On 2013-07-01, at 8:39 AM, Anders Holmberg <anders at pipkrokodil.se> wrote:
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> >> 	Hi!
> >> I'd thought i've saved a message from this list on the subject of brltty on the mac.
> >> However i can not find it.
> >> So i am sorry for asking this again.
> >> But i really need to install brltty so i can use the terminal.
> >> Its a pain in the but to use the terminal with speech and especially with voiceover.
> >> So all help is appreciated.
> >> Is it just the same as compiling for linux?
> >> DO i need svn or is this unnessesary?
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> /A
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