Re: [g-a-devel] [PATCH] gnopernicus letting BRLTTY translate dots

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Samuel,

Great work! As a braille user I can do nothing but applaud. Will this also 
give us a blinking cursor, if that is what we have selected in BRLTTY�

Thanks,
John


On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Mario Lang wrote a gnopernicus braille driver using BRLTTY's BrlAPI
> some time ago. This brings the possibility to use its big lot of
> braille drivers and smoothly switch between linux consoles. But
> gnopernicus doesn't have many translation tables, while BRLTTY have
> plenty of them, including very special ones (VisioBraille table for
> instance). Moreover, BRLTTY users will most probably prefer just keeping
> the same braille style & cursor settings without having to reconfigure
> it.
> 
> Here is a patch which makes gnopernicus let BRLTTY translate text into
> dots: if the "None" translation table is selected (ie no translation
> table is loaded), xml's plain text is recorded as such, while xml's
> raw dots are still stored the usual way. The BRLTTY driver then gives
> both to BRLTTY, which mixes them up appropriately.
> 
> Since braille style & cursor settings will be handled by BRLTTY,
> selecting the "None" translation will also disable corresponding braille
> settings buttons, for not confusing the user.
> 
> Regards,
> Samuel, for S&S
> 

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