Why would you have to run it in screen? Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote:
> While voiceover on the Mac supports many braille displays, I don't find it as > easy to navigate in terminal that way as with brltty. Also I can read brf > files easily using brltty in terminal where trying to read brf files in Text > Edit on the Mac gives me extra linefeed characters and such which make > reading the brf files on the Mac not an optimal experience imo. > > As for compiling on the Mac using speech and voiceover, you have to do some > interacting and moving to the bottom of the screen in terminal and then > working backwards to see your results but it is possible to compile in > terminal with speech albeit it's much easier once you have brltty installed. > Also it's possible to run a compiling command and send the output to a file > so that when it's done you can just open the file and see whether the command > succeeded or had errors. > Remember that you will have to run brltty in screen. Also if your braille > display is being recognized by voiceover you probably have to turn voiceover > off when running brltty in terminal; as far as I know there isn't a way to > make brltty and voiceover's braille to play nicely together, as in using > voiceover on the rest of the Mac and brltty in terminal. > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > On Jul 1, 2013, at 10:00 AM, erik burggraaf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, Voiceover supports many braille displays running usb or bluetooth. As > > long as you have a supported braille display, it might be easier to use > > that. > > > > I'm also interested in what functionality brltty adds to mac systems. > > > > Thanks for asking. I hadn't even thought of it. > > > > Erik Burggraaf > > Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the > > ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog > > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > > > On 2013-07-01, at 8:39 AM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> I'd thought i've saved a message from this list on the subject of brltty > >> on the mac. > >> However i can not find it. > >> So i am sorry for asking this again. > >> But i really need to install brltty so i can use the terminal. > >> Its a pain in the but to use the terminal with speech and especially with > >> voiceover. > >> So all help is appreciated. > >> Is it just the same as compiling for linux? > >> DO i need svn or is this unnessesary? > >> Thanks in advance. > >> /A > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Alternatives: > > ---------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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
