Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

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

Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

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. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@brltty.com For

[BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

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

Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

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: >

Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

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

Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

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: > >

Re: [BRLTTY] [OT] Re: How doyou read books?

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

Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

I think it's thanks to Emacs' desktop that the positions in files are remembered. Shérab. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@brltty.com For general information, go to:

Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

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,

Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

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: > >

[BRLTTY] [OT] Re: How doyou read books?

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?

Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

[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)

Re: [BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

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

[BRLTTY] Success! Re: installing BRLTTY on the mac

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

Re: [BRLTTY] [OT] Re: How doyou read books?

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