[BRLTTY] Contracted Braille

Jackie McBride abletec at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 14:11:05 EDT 2018


Could you tell us the operating system & screenreader your friend is
using, please?

On 11/3/18, wmichaelb at fuse.net <wmichaelb at fuse.net> wrote:
> I'm helping a blind friend and have supplied to him a decent Dell desktop
> running Debian 9.4 with brltty. He is using the PowerBraille 80 system.
> I've managed to figure out how to get the correct driver loaded, and how to
>
> change the rocker bar configuration. But what he needs is English contracted
>
> braille with capital letters and no additional flashing dots. In his DOS
> system,
> he can access that setting by pushing concave + convex, but those buttons
> don't seem to respond in brltty. I've read the documentation about
> contraction
> files and text files, but still haven't been able to put this together. What
> config
> settings are needed to give English contracted braille with capital letters
> and
> no additional flashing characters? Thanks in advance.
>


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