[BRLTTY] Key bindings for the HandyTech products

[Lars Bjørndal]

Hi!

I too use the cursor up/down functions. They are very important if you for instance use an Active braille without an external keyboard.

Thanks

Lars

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:43:14PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> [Top-posting to keep the answer short.]
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I personally use the binding of CURSOR_UP and CURSOR_DOWN quite a lot.
> And, as you already said, if I don't want to reach all the way to the
> right, I use the SPACE keys to pan horizontally.
> 
> Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org> writes:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > This message is addressed to Mario and all the users of the Active Star
> > 40 and perhaps also other HandyTech products.
> >
> > I would like to discuss the binding of the left triple action key. Its
> > lower part is currently bound to cursor down, while its upper part is
> > currently bound to cursor up.
> >
> > I never used these bindings and recently changed them. I bound the lower
> > part to full window right and the upper part to full window left. That
> > may sound counterintuitive and may seem more intuitive to do the binding
> > the other way around, but my idea was to be as close as possible to
> > what one is doing when reading printed braille. When one is doing that,
> > at some point the right hand continues to read on its own while the left
> > one returns to the beginning of the line and goes to the following one,
> > so that the right hand knows where to go when reading is finished.
> >
> > With this bindings, I find the load of my two hands more balanced. It's
> > also convenient when the display is not completely filled to not have to
> > go to the triple action key on the right to go to the next braille
> > window. I realise I could do it with the space keys, too, but I don't
> > find this very convenient.
> >
> > So my question is: what do other users of this input table think about
> > this suggestion? Do you find it odd and think I should just keep it for
> > myself, or do you like it and find it worth including?
> >
> > For those who would like to try, I am attaching the updated version of
> > rockers.kti I am using.
> >
> > To use it, just install it under /etc/xdg/brltty/rockers.kti and restart
> > brltty, it will load the alternative version of the table rather than
> > the default one.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Sébastien.
> >
> >
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