Re: [BRLTTY] Some more things for v4.4

2012-05-30 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Eric Scheibler wrote: 1. Announcing of capitals still doesn't work if I set the raise pitch method. Letters are spoken with a higher pitch but also are doubled. If I type jJ on the command line I get jJJ and sometimes also j. As far as I could test this happens with

[BRLTTY] BRLAPI / Cut / Paste

2012-05-30 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, I have a program which helps me writing some mathematical expressions (in LaTeX) and is doing some calculations at the same time. It would be handy if I could append/insert text into BRLTTY's cut/paste buffer via BRLAPI. Is this possible? Is this also possible with the python bindings?

[BRLTTY] BRLTTY 4.3, Ubuntu 12.04, Focus 40: Strange behaviour

2012-05-30 Thread Michela Botti
Dear all, As a new member of this list, first of all I would like to thank the BRLTTY author and team for the great work the've been doing over the years. After using Red Hat-like distributions with BRLTTy (text-mode only) for a while, I would like to try Ubuntu, with BRLTTY, possibly in

[BRLTTY] ViewPoints features Orca, Gnome, and accessibility in Linux

2012-05-30 Thread Peter Torpey
ViewPoints is a weekly, half hour radio show / podcast which covers a wide variety of topics of interest to the visually impaired. In this week's episode, we interviewed Joannie and Alex about what they do and what is under the hood in Linux accessibility: ViewPoints 1222 5-30-12 ViewPoints

Re: [BRLTTY] Some more things for v4.4

2012-05-30 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2012/05/30 at 03:35 -0400] What is the speech driver you use? I've observed the same thing with the eSpeak driver as changing the pitch somehow appears to take CPU time away from the keyboard event processing, and my presumption is that the key release events

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY 4.3, Ubuntu 12.04, Focus 40: Strange behaviour

2012-05-30 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Michela Botti on 2012/05/30 at 10:55 +0200] My Focus 40 braille display immediately started to work during boot on Ubuntu 12.04. However, I seemed not to be able to use the rocker bar to scroll one line up or down: pressing the left rocker bar (top or bottom) had no effect at

Re: [BRLTTY] Some more things for v4.4

2012-05-30 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Nicolas, Nicolas Pitre n...@fluxnic.net schrieb am 30.05.2012, 3:35 -0400: On Wed, 30 May 2012, Eric Scheibler wrote: 1. Announcing of capitals still doesn't work if I set the raise pitch method. Letters are spoken with a higher pitch but also are doubled. If I type jJ on the command

Re: [BRLTTY] Some more things for v4.4

2012-05-30 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Dave Mielke wrote: [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2012/05/30 at 03:35 -0400] What is the speech driver you use? I've observed the same thing with the eSpeak driver as changing the pitch somehow appears to take CPU time away from the keyboard event processing, and

Re: [BRLTTY] Some more things for v4.4

2012-05-30 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Sebastian Humenda wrote: Hello Nicolas, Nicolas Pitre n...@fluxnic.net schrieb am 30.05.2012, 3:35 -0400: On Wed, 30 May 2012, Eric Scheibler wrote: 1. Announcing of capitals still doesn't work if I set the raise pitch method. Letters are spoken with a higher pitch

Re: [BRLTTY] Empty Lines sometimes not spoken

2012-05-30 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Dave, Dave Mielke d...@mielke.cc schrieb am 24.05.2012, 13:12 -0400: [quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2012/05/24 at 10:05 +0200] with the latest BRLTTY SVN build, I'm experiencing a problem when reading texts. When I'm in Vim on the last line of the text buffer (one line before the

[BRLTTY] Contraction error and patch: Knownothingism

2012-05-30 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Hi all, According to my word list culled from SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word List), knownothing isn't a word. And it's handled correctly anyway. But knownothingism misses the ing sign. The attached patch fixes this. HTH, -- Lee Maschmeyer Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLAPI / Cut / Paste

2012-05-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Humenda, le Wed 30 May 2012 11:02:22 +0200, a écrit : I have a program which helps me writing some mathematical expressions (in LaTeX) and is doing some calculations at the same time. It would be handy if I could append/insert text into BRLTTY's cut/paste buffer via BRLAPI. Is this

[BRLTTY] ViewPoints features Orca, Gnome, and accessibility in Linux

2012-05-30 Thread Peter Torpey
ViewPoints 1222 5-30-12 ViewPoints #1222 Orca, Gnome and Accessibility in Linux This week's show focuses on the Orca screen reader, the Gnome desktop and how accessibility works in Linux. Join hosts Nancy Goodman Torpey and Peter Torpey as they talk with Joanmarie Diggs and Alejandro Pineiro,