Re: [BRLTTY] Introduction and a question

2018-11-09 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Fanus on 2018/11/09 at 15:06 +0200] >This is totally new to me so I hope I would not ask too many questions. I can't speak for other lists, but on this list you're welcome to ask questions. >The first is how do I download the english manual. I did try to do from the >website bu

Re: [BRLTTY] 6-Dot Braille Settings on brltty

2018-11-09 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by wmicha...@fuse.net on 2018/11/09 at 11:11 -0500] >Is there a way to set the default to 6-dot braille at boot? >From within brltty's preferences menu, set Text Style to 6-Dot. This does the very same thing as using the key combination to turn six-dot mode on, so using the key com

Re: [BRLTTY] Irregularities with Debian 9.4 - brltty - PowerBraille80

2018-11-09 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by wmicha...@fuse.net on 2018/11/09 at 11:07 -0500] >the flashing colon was the cursor. Is there a way to shut off the cursor in >brltty? This can be done from within brltty's preferences menu. -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke

Re: [BRLTTY] Reading 132 Column Screens with 80 Column Braille

2018-11-09 Thread wmichaelb
On Debian 9.4 with brltty and the tsi/PowerBraille80 driver, one only reads 80 columns because that's the limit with this braille reader. As a result, without some adjustment, one reads on the middle 80 columns of the linux tty screen, and characters before and after that are dropped. I had Andre

Re: [BRLTTY] 6-Dot Braille Settings on brltty

2018-11-09 Thread wmichaelb
With Debian 9.4, brltty, and the tsi driver for PowerBraille 80, I edited the key bindings file to use concave + convex to toggle between 6- and 8-dot Braille, and that works better for Andre than the default 3-button binding (3 buttons are awkward). Is there a way to set the default to 6-dot brai

Re: [BRLTTY] Irregularities with Debian 9.4 - brltty - PowerBraille80

2018-11-09 Thread wmichaelb
Andre figured out that the flashing colon was the cursor. Is there a way to shut off the cursor in brltty? Thanks in advance. Message: 7 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 04:20:25 -0500 From: Dave Mielke To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] brlt

[BRLTTY] Introduction and a question

2018-11-09 Thread Fanus
Hello list members My name is Fanus Buys and I live in South Africa. A while ago I got a Raspberry PI because I like to fiddle with things and two weeks ago I got my Orbit 20 and learned that I can hook it to the PI and use BRLTTY. This is totally new to me so I hope I would not ask too many que

Re: [BRLTTY] Input from HelpTech Actilino

2018-11-09 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hi, Mario! You wrote: > Lars Bjørndal writes: > > > My point is that I can do pretty much without a QWERTY keyboard, > > while using the keyboard on Actilino for input. However, in the > > defualt keyboard layout, I cannot find a funcion to simulate the Home > > and End functions. > > What abo