Re: [orca-list] enabling grade II braille?

[Willie Walker <walker willie gmail com>]

I experimented with this on a recently installed Ubuntu Lucid system.

In looking at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/orca/platform.py, it looks  
like Orca does not know where the liblouis contraction tables are.   
Unfortunately, the way Orca currently learns about where the modules  
are is via the autogen.sh/configure mechanism asking pkg-config about  
liblouis.  On Ubuntu, this information is provided by the liblouis-dev  
package - if that package is not installed when Orca's  
autogen.sh/configure scripts are run, Orca will not find the tables.  I  
just filed https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=522162 to indicate  
that liblouis-dev should be listed as a build dependency for gnome-orca  
on Ubuntu.  For the midterm, fixing  
https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=522162 should get Lucid back  
in shape.

As a temporary workaround, I modified  
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/orca/platform.py so that the tablesdir  
line pointed to /usr/share/liblouis/tables.  This seemed to make  
contracted braille work on Ubuntu Lucid.

For a longer term workaround, it would be nice if the louis python  
bindings could tell us at runtime where the tables were installed --  
this would allow Orca to pick them up even if liblouis were installed  
after Orca were built.  I'm CC'in Eitan on this to see if that might be  
possible.

Will

On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Zachary Kline wrote:

> Hi,
> Not very helpful, I'm afraid, but I'm suffering from this exact
> problem.  I'm on Debian instead of Ubuntu, running unstable.  The
> symptoms are identical.
> I'd be interested in an answer as well.
> Best,
> Zack.
>
> Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com> writes:
>
> > Hi
> > Yes, they're installed and python does find them. As near as I can  
> > tell
> > they do work, and Orca also detects them at build time.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 08:25 +0100, Halim Sahin wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Have you installed the louis python bindings correctly?
> > > BR.
> > > halim
> > >
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