With attributes, they include italics, bold, underline, things like that. Not too much, but things I would want to know about. They do depend on Braille table. Perhaps NVDA’s Braille implementation can show things possible.
> On Jul 17, 2018, at 1:09 PM, ch...@linux-a11y.org wrote: > > Howdy John, > > For my initial work i created an debug braille driver what just prints the > showhn text to stdout. I will take a look at your link. The initial brltty > driver works i tested it with storm dragon. He had a braille device. But its > verry unpractical to not be able to verify your own code after doing some > changes :). With the debug driver i will not be able to emulate braille > input. But fenrir is able by design to bind commands to any shortcut also to > keyboard what may help as well :). > > I will fore sure do what i can ;). But help is very welcome to make a > perfect job to wire up an best possible result to all :). But foor example > devins attribute stuff ; i dont know what attributes have an braille > eqvivalent and how they look like. Do they depend on the used braille table? > (Just an example of many questions i have) > > Thanks for your links i will investigate. > > Cheers chrys > > Zitat von john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com>: > >> On 7/17/2018 7:01 PM, chrys wrote: >>> Howdy Devin, >>> >>> sure thing as soon as i figure how lol. i dont own an braille device so i >>> just can do most of that stuff "blind" lol. >>> for stuff like that it would be really awesome to have someone with python >>> dev skills and braille device on my side :). i m not blind so maybe i m not >>> the best person to say how it needs to be done that it is perfect. >>> i already started the implementation and basic stuff should be doable but >>> its not production ready yet. >>> >>> thats why the default braille driver is currently dummy lol. but basic >>> brltty usage is already implemented and also some needed bits to show up >>> some text on the braille device and flush it. >>> panning should be in place as well. but all untested lol. i will add your >>> request to the list. >>> >>> here the outstanding todos if someone wants to dive in and help out :). >>> Braille Support: >>> [] brailleFocusMode: >>> [] manual = no automatic toggle, command used (text cursor, review >>> cursor, attribute cursor) >>> [] last = follow last used cursor (text cursor, review cursor, >>> attribute cursor) >>> [] print cursor in review >>> [] print cursor in textmode / attribute tracking >>> [] word wrapping (if word does not fit print it at next page) >>> [] command toggle used cursor (in manual brailleFocusMode) >>> [] capture input from braile >>> [] make routing keys assignable by keyboard >>> [] make brailleTable configurable >>> [] tuning for the commands, what should be pinned, what should be >>> flushed, what not shown at all. >>> >>> JFYI same for dectalk :). i want to provide an dectalk speech driver. but i >>> dont own an device. speech drivers designed are really simple. so maybe >>> someone with an device can help out here as well. >>> >> >> I don't have the python skills but maybe you could emulate a brail display: >> >> https://linux.die.net/man/1/qemu-kvm >> >> You could have a look at NVDA which is also written in python: >> >> https://github.com/nvaccess >> >> -- >> John Doe > > >
