Re: [BRLTTY] [orca-list] Some braille/brltty questions regarding orca

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:56:53PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: >> >> I have two questions: >> 1. Why is screen written with no contraction for en when it says >> "screen not in text mode" >> But I'm using UEB grade 2 braille and writing screen here uses th

Re: [BRLTTY] [orca-list] Some braille/brltty questions regarding orca

2008-04-23 Thread Jason White
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:56:53PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > I have two questions: > 1. Why is screen written with no contraction for en when it says > "screen not in text mode" > But I'm using UEB grade 2 braille and writing screen here uses the > contraction? > Not and in seem to have con

Re: [BRLTTY] [orca-list] Some braille/brltty questions regarding orca

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote: >>> 2. How can I get orca to use UEB or grade 2 braille? (Like brltty is now?) >> >> You'll need to compile and install liblouis (http://www.jjb-software.com/) >> and >> set up Orca to use it. As I remember, there are instructions at the Orca Web >> site

[BRLTTY] Some braille/brltty questions regarding orca

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I have two questions: 1. Why is screen written with no contraction for en when it says "screen not in text mode" But I'm using UEB grade 2 braille and writing screen here uses the contraction? Not and in seem to have contractions though. 2. How can I get orca to use UEB or grade 2 braille? (

[BRLTTY] braille note - checking vc number

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Does anyone know how I can check what number text console I am in with my braille note and brltty? Thanks, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post

Re: [BRLTTY] [orca-list] Some braille/brltty questions regarding orca

2008-04-23 Thread Jason White
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:28:41PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > One question though. > You know how you must give configure an argument for grade 2 braille? > Well how do I rebuild orca after an svn up? > just make and then make install? That should work unless changes are made in Orca that req

Re: [BRLTTY] braille note - checking vc number

2008-04-23 Thread Hermann
am Mi 23. Apr 2008 um 13:42:04 schrieb Daniel Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how I can check what number text console I am in with my > braille note and brltty? See the file /etc/brltty/brltty-bn.hlp You can filter the text by typing: strings brltty-bn.hlp |less or redir

[BRLTTY] Now have dual boot on ppc mac mini fully functional

2008-04-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Just thought I'd let everybody know that I have this completely up and running now. I fixed the airport problem and corrected the entry in brltty.conf and all is well. Thanks for all the help; just keep in mind that when an official netinst comes out for debian ppc with the corrected brltty in

[BRLTTY] Braille tables versus contraction tables.

2008-04-23 Thread Dave Mielke
The only significant component of brltty which isn't yet Unicode-based is the text tables support. What do you people think of getting rid of them and just using contraction tables (whetther or not we eventually rename them is another topic)? We could simply convert our current text tables into

Re: [BRLTTY] Have dual boot working with only a couple of problems

2008-04-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cheryl wrote: > While the brltty in the install was fixed, the brltty installed before > booting into the system is still a brltty with the problem that was > fixed in the installer. Mmm, I guess it indeed installed a non-fixed version of brltty. You should be able to install a newer version (at

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille tables versus contraction tables.

2008-04-23 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Dave Mielke wrote: > The only significant component of brltty which isn't yet Unicode-based is the > text tables support. What do you people think of getting rid of them and just > using contraction tables (whetther or not we eventually rename them is > another > topic)? W

[BRLTTY] debian ppc netinst availability

2008-04-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I posted to the macvoiceover list about my success in getting a dual boot with linux using brltty and i'm getting inquiries back. I still have the burned cd of course, but I have no way to put the iso up for people. Is there any way to check whether the image could be put back up; if so, I'll w

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille tables versus contraction tables.

2008-04-23 Thread Jason White
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:40:48PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > I suspect that their inherent limitation of one braille cell per character > will > eventually become frustrating. My guess, and that's all it is, is that users > will eventually want single-cell representations for their own languag

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille tables versus contraction tables.

2008-04-23 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2008/04/23 at 22:27 -0400] > > >What is there to gain by doing so? > > I suspect that their inherent limitation of one braille cell per > character will eventually become frustrating. My guess, and that's all > it is,