Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-16 Thread Jason White
Mario Lang wrote: > P.S.: I'd be interested where setting up Emacspeak for Mac is > documented? > I might want to do that on my Mac as well. I think it's all in the Emacspeak distribution. Mac users contributed the necessary support. I should point out that Emacs under Linux with BRLTTY and Em

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-16 Thread Mario Lang
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > Rich Morin wrote: > >> On Jun 15, 2016, at 10:06, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >> > Dave Mielke wrote: >> >> [quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/15 at 08:53 -0700] >> >>> I'm not sure how closely Apple's support for Braille displays is tied to >> >>> VoiceOver.

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-15 Thread covici
Rich Morin wrote: > On Jun 15, 2016, at 10:06, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Dave Mielke wrote: > >> [quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/15 at 08:53 -0700] > >>> I'm not sure how closely Apple's support for Braille displays is tied to > >>> VoiceOver. > >> > >> It's completely tied into

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-15 Thread Rich Morin
On Jun 15, 2016, at 10:06, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Dave Mielke wrote: >> [quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/15 at 08:53 -0700] >>> I'm not sure how closely Apple's support for Braille displays is tied to >>> VoiceOver. >> >> It's completely tied into it. It may be called VoiceOver, b

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-15 Thread covici
Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/15 at 08:53 -0700] > > >We can certainly wait for the release, if need be. Alternatively, would it > >make > >sense to get started with the current release (5.3.1) or the development > >repo on > >GitHub (https://github.com/brltty/br

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-15 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/15 at 08:53 -0700] >We can certainly wait for the release, if need be. Alternatively, would it >make >sense to get started with the current release (5.3.1) or the development repo >on >GitHub (https://github.com/brltty/brltty)? Totally up to you. All of t

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-15 Thread Rich Morin
On Jun 15, 2016, at 02:51, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/14 at 10:31 -0700] > > The only one who may need to duck his head around here is myself whenever > stupid bugs slip through. :-) That being said, I myself don't believe in head > ducking, excuse making, etc.

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-15 Thread Mario Lang
Rich Morin writes: > The other issues we face have to do with Emacs and Emacspeak. Emacs > divides the screen into "buffers", each of which can contain text. That is actually incorrect terminology. Emacs divides the screen up into so-called windows, each of which can display the content of a b

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-15 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/14 at 10:31 -0700] >Sorry; "(ducks)" is shorthand for > > "I'm ducking my head, in case the responses I get are negative." The only one who may need to duck his head around here is myself whenever stupid bugs slip through. :-) That being said, I myself don

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-14 Thread Rich Morin
On Jun 14, 2016, at 03:37, Dave Mielke 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.

Re: [BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

2016-06-14 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/13 at 20:08 -0700] >The BRLTTY page talks about providing access to the Linux/Unix console: > > BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) which provides access to the > Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a > refreshable braille disp