Re: [BRLTTY] Braille keyboard layout

2007-06-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jason White, le Fri 22 Jun 2007 17:52:13 +1000, a écrit : > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:14:03PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Jason White, le Mon 18 Jun 2007 18:54:48 +1000, a ?crit : > > > I think UTF8 support should be a significant priority, and it has been > > > discussed here previously as

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille keyboard layout

2007-06-22 Thread Jason White
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:14:03PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jason White, le Mon 18 Jun 2007 18:54:48 +1000, a ?crit : > > I think UTF8 support should be a significant priority, and it has been > > discussed here previously as a post 3.8 possibility. > > Mmm, UTF-8 already works. What is lef

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille keyboard layout

2007-06-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dave Mielke, le Mon 18 Jun 2007 09:31:25 -0400, a écrit : > For reading, I like displays with long thumb-operated keys. As I near > the end of a line I start moving my left index finger to the left, > usually timing it so that it gets there just as my right index finger > is reading the last charac

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille keyboard layout

2007-06-18 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2007/06/17 at 13:20 +0200] >So far, I could work with two braille terminals. The first one had its >"go to next window key" at the left of the display, where as the second >one has it at the right end, more precisely under the last cells. >Between these two,

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille keyboard layout

2007-06-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Jason White, le Mon 18 Jun 2007 18:54:48 +1000, a écrit : > I think UTF8 support should be a significant priority, and it has been > discussed here previously as a post 3.8 possibility. Mmm, UTF-8 already works. What is left to do is Unicode support, i.e. being able to mix several not necessa

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille keyboard layout

2007-06-18 Thread Jason White
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:58:20AM +0200, S?bastien Hinderer wrote: > The orientation of the keys was preserved on the keyboard I was talking > about: simply, both previous and next window keys were located at the > beginning of the display. Thus, the layout was as follows, from left to > right:

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille keyboard layout

2007-06-17 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear all, First: thanks a lot to those of you who have already contributed to this thread. Nicolas Pitre : > That makes some sense, although I fear I personally would find such a > configuration rather impossible to use. My primary use for a braille > display is to read (and write) source code

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille keyboard layout

2007-06-17 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > To sum up: I believe that if the "go to next window" button is located at > the end (right) of the braille window, I am less efficient in reading > than when it is placed at the left (beginning) of the braille window. > The explanation, according to

[BRLTTY] Braille keyboard layout

2007-06-17 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear all, While reading the screen, at least in text mode, the command I use the more frequently is doubtlessly the one that displays the next indow on the braille display. Assuming that the same should be true for others, I am lead to this idea that if there is one thing that must be payed attent