On Jun 14, 2016, at 03:37, Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> wrote: > [quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/13 at 20:08 -0700] >> If not, would it be hard to set up? > > That was achieved way back in the mid '90s. :-)
Thanks for the clarifications! This sounds quite encouraging. >> Comments and suggestions welome... (ducks) > > I'm curious. Ducks? Sorry; "(ducks)" is shorthand for "I'm ducking my head, in case the responses I get are negative." That said, your response was quite positive and encouraging. Now, I just need to find out some specific details for our use case. If we can arrive at a working solution, I'll happily write up a HowTo page. Here is a bit of background, to get us well started. Amanda Lacy has a MacBook Air, running OSX. Her display, a HumanWare Brailliant BI40, connects to the Air via USB. HumanWare Brailliant BI 40 http://store.humanware.com/hus/brailliant-bi-40-new-generation.html Although I didn't find any information on using BRLTTY with OSX, it is written in C and already works with Linux and OpenBSD, so porting it (if need be) is unlikely to be too difficult. That said, it would be lovely to find out that a port has already been done. Alternatively, it may be that Apple's built-in Braille support can do the job: Braille Displays for OSX http://www.apple.com/accessibility/osx/braille-display.html The other issues we face have to do with Emacs and Emacspeak. Emacs divides the screen into "buffers", each of which can contain text. So, we need a way to display the current line of the current buffer. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin r...@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume San Bruno, CA, USA +1 650-873-7841 Software system design, development, and documentation _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
