Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread John J. Boyer
In the late nineties I wrote a Grade 2 translator for BRLTTY. Others contributed to it. I then developed it into liblouis, which still acknowledges its BRLTTY roots. It is now used very widely. John On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 01:26:36AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Rob wrote:

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
At the beginning of 2002, with Sébastien Hinderer, we wrote the brlapi client/server support, which allowed gnopernicus, then orca and NVDA to access braille devices. Samuel ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send a

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread Mario Lang
Samuel Thibault writes: > At the beginning of 2002, with Sébastien Hinderer, we wrote the brlapi > client/server support, which allowed gnopernicus, then orca and NVDA to > access braille devices. This is roughly when I joined. I remember having written the Gnopernicus driver for BrlAPI, which

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread Rob
Mario Lang wrote: I'd like to take this opportunity and publicly thank Dave for the absolutely wonderful work he has been doing since he took maintainance over. I second that. I came to Linux in--I think--about 2010, at which time I had no braille display and I was stuck using the E Squeak synt

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread Mario Lang
"Rob" writes: > As a side note, how many of us use Brltty as our sole means of > navigating in Linux? Count me in, I am a 100% braille user. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/k...@db.debian.org : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread John J. Boyer
Count me in also, I use Braille with Linux exclusively. John On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:05:09PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > "Rob" writes: > > > As a side note, how many of us use Brltty as our sole means of > > navigating in Linux? > > Count me in, I am a 100% braille user. > > -- > CYa, >

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread covici
I use both speech and Braille, and would be at a loss without Dave's wonderful work with Brltty! Mario Lang wrote: > "Rob" writes: > > > As a side note, how many of us use Brltty as our sole means of > > navigating in Linux? > > Count me in, I am a 100% braille user. > > -- > CYa, > ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread Stéphane Doyon
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Mario Lang wrote: I'd like to take this opportunity and publicly thank Dave for the absolutely wonderful work he has been doing since he took maintainance over. Yes, absolutely agree! Dave you have our heartfelt thanks for your incredible work and long lasting dedication.

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! WHen i use linux i use braille. On the mac its not that good except if you compile brltty in the terminal of course. /A > On 10 Dec 2015, at 16:21, John J. Boyer wrote: > > Count me in also, I use Braille with Linux exclusively. > > John > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:05:09PM +0100, Mario

Re: [BRLTTY] History of Brltty

2015-12-10 Thread Tom Masterson
I too use Braille almost exclusively on Linux and other systems when I use them. I am almost exclusively using Linux now. I occasionally turn on speech when Firefox is being difficult. I also want to extend my thanks to Dave and all the other people who contribute to bratty for their stellar

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.3 soon

2015-12-10 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2015/12/09 at 18:54 +0100] >We still have the issue of systemd autostart of getty prevented by the >presence of brltty. Everyone, now I'm begging: :-) Yes, this is an important issue. While the final bit of coding to implement it hasn't been done yet, the most