[BRLTTY] Sending control characters via Braile Edge and other translation issues

[Amanda Lacy]

>When I use the control key on the Edge "F5" it appears to send a line feed as
>the cursor jumps down a line.

I know what this means; latex-access isn't working with brltty yet.

On 7/20/16, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by Kevin Fjelsted on 2016/07/20 at 07:01 -0500]
>
>>I am using the Latex-Access table from Brltty. My display is a Braille
>> Edge.
>>1) How can I make sure that the table is being called?
>
> First: You need to tell brltty that that's the contraction table you wish to
> be
> using. You can do this either via the -c command line option:
>
>    -c latex-access
>
> or via the contraction-table brltty.conf directive:
>
>    contraction-table latex-access
>
> Second: You need to ensure that the table itself:
>
>    /etc/brltty/Contraction/latex-access.ctb
>
> is executable.
>
> Third: To tell brltty to use it, you need to set the Text Style to 6-Dots.
> On a
> Braille Edge:
>
>    set text style to 6-dots with: Space+Dots235
>    set text style to 8-dots with: Space+Dots236
>
>>2) I need to send ctrl-m from the edge to toggle math mode on and off.
>
> I'm not understanding this one. See above for how to do it.
>
>>When I use the control key on the Edge "F5" it appears to send a line feed
>> as
>>the cursor jumps down a line.
>
> I'm not sure if it matters or not, but are you doing this on Linux or on
> Windows?
>
> A Control-M is a carriage return, so one would expect it to end the current
>
> input line. I'm finding it hard to imagine, therefore, that any user
> interface
> would use a carriage return to toggle one of its features on/off.
>
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