Wow, ben. So this means that you could edit a braille table for any keystroke you wish to modify?
Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Ben van Poppel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I do a lot of reading and writing of .brf’s directly from the display, either > music or my own brand of literary Braille which is at about grade seven these > days. The dot 456 combination is always tricky since it gets represented in > computer Braille for embossing as an underscore, but received wisdom seems to > be that underscore should get dot 7 added to it for refreshable Braille. On > the Mac it was particularly annoying because if you forget and just hit > dot456, you end up entering a delete character, as I’m sure others have found > out to their cost. Anyway, this morning I had enough and tracked down the US > 8 dot Braille table, which I’d always assumed would be embedded in a Duxbury > .btb file. As it happens it’s just a plain plist in > /System/Library/ScreenReader/BrailleTables/Duxbury.brailletable/Contents/Resources. > After swapping the entries for 456 and 4567, I can now directly enter an > underscore with 456 and so can write brf files in my editor of choice. > > Other people might have already discovered this, but as it’s a fix for what a > Braille nerd like me found an annoying quirk, I thought I’d report my success > with it anyway. > > Cheers. > Ben > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
