Re: Progress With Braille output!

[Mario Lang <mlang delysid org>]

"John J. Boyer" <director chpi org> writes:

> On Wed, 21 May 2003, Mario Lang wrote:
>> I guess you already know about the brltty brlapi?
>
> No. I don't know about it, but it sounds like something i should learn. 
> Where can i find it? 

It was checked into brltty's Subversion repository recently.
You can find information about the repository at
http://dave.mielke.cc/brltty/download.html#repository

>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>> If anyone is working on integrating that with Gnopernicus, I'd be
>> happy to hear from you.  There will be many requests like "My display is not
>> supported by Gnopernicus", as soon as more people get to know about
>> it.  Having a interface to brltty's brlapi would solve those
>> kind of problems once and for all, since brltty already has drivers for
>> about 12 different models IIRC.  Another advantage of using
>> brlapi would be that there are no collision of two screen readers trying
>> to use the same serial port, since brlapi (from what I can gather reading the code)
>> lets a client register for a specific tty.  So Gnopernicus
>> would register for the tty where X is running, and that would allow
>> for the usually terminal switching without the need to stop or start
>> any screen readers explicitly.

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