[BRLTTY] Yet another way to break brltty

[Amanda Lacy]

Latex-access works! I thought I'd made latex-access.ctp executable,
but apparently I hadn't. I did that and restarted, and now brltty and
latex-access work as expected. Dave, thanks for your help and your
patience with a newbie like me.

On 7/18/16, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by Amanda Lacy on 2016/07/18 at 15:28 -0500]
>
>>Or at least make it unusable.
>
> No, brltty isn't breakable or unusable as you're assuming and seem to be
> experiencing. I'm suspecting that, in some way, you haven't built or
> installed
> it correctly. We'll figure it out.
>
> By the way: I'm using your experiences as idea generators to make things
> easier
> for those who may not be doing things in the expected way. For example, I've
>
> started to put together a set of systemd device allow rules so that brltty
> can
> eventually be run non-root. It'd still assume systemd service management,
> though, as opposed to direct invocation.
>
>>The Braille presentation menu use to have the options 6-dot computer
>> Braille,
>>8-dot computer Braille and contracted.
>
> And it still does. I just checked to be absolutely sure.
>
>>The third option now shows nothing but full cells (all 8 dots) instead of
>>contracted.
>
> This must mean that your contraction table hasn't been correctly installed.
>
> Perhaps all of your tables haven't been correctly installed. Either that, or
>
> your contraction table definition is an absolute path to the wrong place.
>
> Okay. I just looked in the huge log you sent earlier. You've specified the
> latex-access contraction table, and it's seeing it as a regular, rather than
> as
> an executable, table. Please check that it's executable.
>
>>I selected this option to see what would happen. Now my display shows
>> nothing
>>but all 8 dots, for everything, forever. I can see the "Preferences menu"
>>message but beyond that everything is dotted out. What is this feature for?
>>
>
> Of course it's not a feature.
>
> I've just checked a little further. Even though the latex-access contraction
>
> table is executable within the repository, it's not being installed such
> that
> it's executable. I'll look into fixing this. Meanwhile, please make your
> copy
> executable by doing:
>
>    chmod a+rx /etc/brltty/Contraction/latex-access.ctb
>
> latex-access is the only executable contraction table that we have, and you
>
> happen to be the first person who's had this problem. We'll fix it.
>
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