[quoted lines by Chris on 2012/07/04 at 05:00 +0200] >i have no braille device here. its my laptop. i mostly use just speech, >so my braille device is on my pc in my parents apartment. >Orca reads to me in X ;). but i wanna configure the ttys to speak to >me :).
You can use brltty without a braille device. To do this, you need to enable a keyboard key table. Since you're using a laptop, you probably want to use the laptop keyboard key table. You can enable it on the command line via the -klaptop option, or you can enable it in brltty.conf via the key-table directive, e.g.: key-table laptop Once you have the laptop keyboard key table enabled, certain key combinations on your laptop's keyboard will tell brltty to do things. You can read about all of those key bindings at the same location I told you about earlier. Even though the page is called "Drivers", it also lists the keyboard key tables. In case you no longer have the instructions, start from brltty's home page: http://mielke.cc/brltty/ Click on "Documentation", and then on "Drivers". At the top of that page you'll find a section with the heading "Keyboards". In that sectoin, you'll find the laptop keyboard key table description by clicking on "Bindings for Keyboards without a Keypad". If you don't have braille, and if autospeak isn't yet enablec, you'll have trouble using the preferences menu to do anything. That's not a problem, though, as there's a direct key binding to do it. Here are a few key bindings to get you started: These commands switch the mode rltty is in: enter/leave help display: CapsLock+F1 enter/leave command learn mode: CapsLock+ShiftLeft+F1 These commands control the Autospeak feature: set autospeak on/off: CapsLock+F9 set autospeak deleted characters on/off: CapsLock+ShiftLeft+ControlLeft+M set autospeak replaced characters on/off: CapsLock+ShiftLeft+ControlLeft+Comma set autospeak inserted characters on/off: CapsLock+ShiftLeft+ControlLeft+Period set autospeak selected character on/off: CapsLock+ShiftLeft+ControlLeft+J set autospeak selected line on/off: CapsLock+ShiftLeft+ControlLeft+K set autospeak completed words on/off: CapsLock+ShiftLeft+ControlLeft+L These commands are general speech controls: stop speaking: ControlLeft stop speaking: ControlRight decrease speech rate: CapsLock+F5 increase speech rate: CapsLock+F6 decrease speech volume: CapsLock+F7 increase speech volume: CapsLock+F8 These commands speak only if Autospeak is enabled: speak current line: CapsLock+Space go up one line: CapsLock+ArrowUp go down one line: CapsLock+ArrowDown go to beginning of top line: CapsLock+Home go to beginning of bottom line: CapsLock+End These commands always speak: go to and speak previous word: ShiftRight+ArrowLeft go to and speak next word: ShiftRight+ArrowRight go to and speak previous line: ShiftRight+ArrowUp go to and speak next line: ShiftRight+ArrowDown go to and speak first non-blank character on line: ControlRight+ArrowLeft go to and speak last non-blank character on line: ControlRight+ArrowRight go to and speak first non-blank line on screen: ControlRight+ArrowUp go to and speak last non-blank line on screen: ControlRight+ArrowDown bring cursor to speech location: ControlRight+ShiftRight speak speech location: ShiftRight+Enter I just realized, after having put together this list, that the laptop key table doesn't offer a way to save your setting changes. This'll be fixed. Could you tell us which release of brltty you're using? What I've described here is true for brltty-4.4. Some of it won't work - particularly, the last group of commands - if you're using an earlier release. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | 2011 May 21 is the End of Salvation. EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://Mielke.cc/now.html http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
