Hi
Shérab writes:
> Many thakns for your very interesting answer!
Thank you for your question.
> Along time ago I also started to write a program to read books on my
> braille device. The program was written in OCaml and its ideas were very
> close to what
It wasn’t that hard. I didn’t expect it to be easy, and yes, compiling is still
nerve-wracking to me, but it works. Here is the page I got my instructions from:
http://brltty.mielke.narkive.com/9QBwp00R/installing-brltty-on-the-mac
Here are the notes I took:
First, make sure you have Xcode
Thanks for letting me know that BRLTTY works with the Touch. If I can dredge up
old emails about getting it working, and if I successfully do get it working,
I’ll compile it all into, hopefully, an easy to follow manner and send it here.
Devin Prater
Assistive Technology Instructor
, Microsoft
[quoted lines by Devin Prater on 2018/03/04 at 13:43 -0600]
>When BRLTTY gets a driver for the Braille note Touch, I’ll probably try
>compiling and running it on my Mac, if that’s still possible.
The HumanWare driver already supports the BrailleNote Touch. Use the latest
brltty release (5.6)
Dear Aura,
Many thakns for your very interesting answer!
Along time ago I also started to write a program to read books on my
braille device. The program was written in OCaml and its ideas were very
close to what you describe. Unfortunately I didn't maintain it and since
it seems less advanced
For emacs, there is a whole customization for saving places, as well
as bookmarks. It saves your whole desktop including places in all
your buffers. To put in read only mode its c-x-q. or to visit a file
in read only mode its c-x-r.
On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:22:35 -0500,
Devin Prater wrote:
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Hi
My reply is a bit of off-topic on this list, but it might interest some
readers.
Shérab writes:
> I am wondering what you guys find most comfortable to read books in text
> formats. Perhaps the first question could be which file format do you
> prefer?
Oh, thanks. When BRLTTY gets a driver for the Braille note Touch, I’ll probably
try compiling and running it on my Mac, if that’s still possible. There should
really be an article on the BRLTTY site about that, and maybe even applications
that work well with BRLTTY for doing everyday tasks,
Well, for those, I may do that, or read with speech on a computer that
can do the web better than linux on the console. I also use the
iphone for a lot of such things, since I can hook up the Braille
display to the iphone via Bluetooth.
On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:39:12 -0500,
Shérab wrote:
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I think it's thanks to Emacs' desktop that the positions in files are
remembered.
Shérab.
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John, how do you have Emacs remember your place in a book? Do you use EWW or
something else, or just have it in a text file, converted with Pandoc or
something? I’m assuming you put the file in read only mode, I forget how this
is done but know its possible, and simply do space or C-v to scroll
Thanks a lot for your feedback, John!
So, when you get a book in HTML or epub or whatever, you convert it to
text?
Best wishes,
Shérab.
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Dear Arthur,
Many thanks for your interesting response! You did send it only to me
personnally so I quote it below so that everybody can read it and then I
reply, below.
Arthur BREUNEVAL (2018/03/04 19:12 +0100):
> Hello Shérab,
> I personally read books in TXT format, with the internal editor
I use emacs, which of course saves your place. I do have to hit
something when I get to the bottom of the page -- I wish the cursor
would follow the brltty window, but other than that, it works well. I
am using a Humanware Brailliant 40 cell.
On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 12:17:48 -0500,
Shérab wrote:
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Dear all,
I am wondering what you guys find most comfortable to read books in text
formats. Perhaps the first question could be which file format do you
prefer? And then, which tool do you use to read it? Is it less, a text
editor, lynx, or perhaps the internal tools of your notetakers?
What do
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