Re: [BRLTTY] Error "Can't determine tty number"

2016-07-05 Thread t w
Hi everyone, After restarting my computer (and making sure that i have one - and only one - brltty process running), I switched to console mode (Ctrl+ALT+F2) and ran my program from there. And it worked! So thank you very much for your help! Your input, as well as older posts, really helped me n

Re: [BRLTTY] documentation issues

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/07/04 at 11:07 -0700] >I dislike reading manuals from a computer screen, but I couldn't find >an easy way to print the manual. Am I missing something? Are you looking for something like a PDF version, or is the cleaned up text version good enough? >The downl

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.4 has been released.

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2016/07/04 at 21:54 +0200] >in Debian we do use a udev rule for 0403/6001 because there are popular >devices which use this generic ID. Do you, then, allow all generic adapter rules in? If you only allow this one, how do you filter the others out? Does the u

Re: [BRLTTY] documentation issues

2016-07-05 Thread Rich Morin
On Jul 5, 2016, at 03:43, Dave Mielke wrote: > Are you looking for something like a PDF version, or is the cleaned up text > version good enough? The cleaned up text version is a huge improvement, but it would be great to have a printable and searchable version that retained the style info (eg,

Re: [BRLTTY] documentation issues

2016-07-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Rich Morin, on Tue 05 Jul 2016 09:29:12 -0700, wrote: > On Jul 5, 2016, at 03:43, Dave Mielke wrote: > > Are you looking for something like a PDF version, or is the cleaned up text > > version good enough? > > The cleaned up text version is a huge improvement, but it would be great > to have a p

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty and Esytime, on Raspbian Jessie.

2016-07-05 Thread Arthur BREUNEVAL
OK, the output log file is attached. I hit: - Commands 1. LeftJoystickLeft 2. LeftJoystickRight 3. LeftJoystickUp 4. LeftJoystickDown 5. RightJoystickPress 6. l1 (a key just below the left joystick that should browse the current line backward e.g. if the line is too bigger to be displayed on the

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty and Esytime, on Raspbian Jessie.

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Arthur BREUNEVAL on 2016/07/05 at 19:12 +0200] >1. LeftJoystickLeft >2. LeftJoystickRight >3. LeftJoystickUp These three work correctly. >4. LeftJoystickDown >5. RightJoystickPress The Esytime isn't sending any packets for these two. Do they perhaps have internal functions? >

Re: [BRLTTY] documentation issues

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/07/05 at 09:29 -0700] >The cleaned up text version is a huge improvement, but it would be great >to have a printable and searchable version that retained the style info >(eg, italic, bold, link). This could be a single HTML page or a PDF document. How searchable

Re: [BRLTTY] documentation issues

2016-07-05 Thread Rich Morin
On Jul 5, 2016, at 12:24, Dave Mielke wrote: > How searchable is PDF? That depends on how it was produced. The worst case scenario is a set of pages that were simply scanned in as images. This isn't accessible as text, let alone searchable. In a better scenario, the text would be accessible, b

Re: [BRLTTY] Screen not in text mode

2016-07-05 Thread Amanda Lacy
I am using Orca, actually. When I press alt-control-F2, F3, etc. the speech disappears for a while. Then it comes back and says I'm on the desktop, but the Braille terminal shows a shell prompt. The VM is completely unresponsive at the moment. > On Jul 2, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:

[BRLTTY] Startup BRLTTY with espeak/speech-dispatcher

2016-07-05 Thread Lars Bjørndal
I'm giving BRLTTY with speech a try. The first thing i notice, is that startup of BRLTTY takes a minute or so. I start it with 'systemctl restart brltty'. I'm happy to provide a log file. Please tell me which information you're interested in, and how to generate the appropriate output. Thanks and

Re: [BRLTTY] documentation issues

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/07/05 at 09:29 -0700] >I would add a descriptive section on "Distribution Formats", near the top >of the page (eg, just below the "Copyright and Disclaimer"). Please check it out and comment. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the v

Re: [BRLTTY] documentation issues

2016-07-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Rich Morin, on Tue 05 Jul 2016 12:30:21 -0700, wrote: > Given that the manual in question starts as SGML, I wouldn't be > surprised if it can generate high-quality PDF, but Samuel will know > for sure. The SGML toolchain goes through LaTeX, but the structure is preserved, so indexing etc. should