Latex-access works! I thought I'd made latex-access.ctp executable, but apparently I hadn't. I did that and restarted, and now brltty and latex-access work as expected. Dave, thanks for your help and your patience with a newbie like me.
On 7/18/16, Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> wrote: > [quoted lines by Amanda Lacy on 2016/07/18 at 15:28 -0500] > >>Or at least make it unusable. > > No, brltty isn't breakable or unusable as you're assuming and seem to be > experiencing. I'm suspecting that, in some way, you haven't built or > installed > it correctly. We'll figure it out. > > By the way: I'm using your experiences as idea generators to make things > easier > for those who may not be doing things in the expected way. For example, I've > > started to put together a set of systemd device allow rules so that brltty > can > eventually be run non-root. It'd still assume systemd service management, > though, as opposed to direct invocation. > >>The Braille presentation menu use to have the options 6-dot computer >> Braille, >>8-dot computer Braille and contracted. > > And it still does. I just checked to be absolutely sure. > >>The third option now shows nothing but full cells (all 8 dots) instead of >>contracted. > > This must mean that your contraction table hasn't been correctly installed. > > Perhaps all of your tables haven't been correctly installed. Either that, or > > your contraction table definition is an absolute path to the wrong place. > > Okay. I just looked in the huge log you sent earlier. You've specified the > latex-access contraction table, and it's seeing it as a regular, rather than > as > an executable, table. Please check that it's executable. > >>I selected this option to see what would happen. Now my display shows >> nothing >>but all 8 dots, for everything, forever. I can see the "Preferences menu" >>message but beyond that everything is dotted out. What is this feature for? >> > > Of course it's not a feature. > > I've just checked a little further. Even though the latex-access contraction > > table is executable within the repository, it's not being installed such > that > it's executable. I'll look into fixing this. Meanwhile, please make your > copy > executable by doing: > > chmod a+rx /etc/brltty/Contraction/latex-access.ctb > > latex-access is the only executable contraction table that we have, and you > > happen to be the first person who's had this problem. We'll fix it. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of > God. > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ > EMail: d...@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.org/ > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
