Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-23 Thread Mario Lang
Dave Mielke writes: > [quoted lines by Raphaël POITEVIN on 2021/03/22 at 11:51 +0100] > >>It seems not working on my Active Star. > > Yes, because the ht key tables don't include the common chords > subtable. Perhaps this could be done. I don't perso0nally have access > to an ht device so I'm a

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Raphaël POITEVIN on 2021/03/22 at 17:23 +0100] >I mean if it's an easy job How easy or hard any given task is depends on what skills any given person has. So, for example, it's impossible for me to assess how easy or hard it'd be for you to do it. >maybe could I contribute.

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Raphaël POITEVIN
Dave Mielke writes: > I never tell anyone not to try something. That person had better be > prepared, though, to be told that it wasn't done right. :-) I never had a look in BRLTTY neithe documentation nor code. I mean if it's an easy job maybe could I contribute. :-) Regards, -- Raphaël

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Raphaël POITEVIN on 2021/03/22 at 12:42 +0100] >Is it difficult? I don't know as I haven't had a good look at doing it yet. >Maybe can I try to do it. I never tell anyone not to try something. That person had better be prepared, though, to be told that it wasn't done right.

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Raphaël POITEVIN
Dave Mielke writes: > Yes, because the ht key tables don't include the common chords > subtable. Perhaps this could be done. I don't perso0nally have access > to an ht device so I'm a little reluctant to mess with those tables > myself. It'd sure be a nice addition to 6.4, though. Is it

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Raphaël POITEVIN on 2021/03/22 at 11:51 +0100] >It seems not working on my Active Star. Yes, because the ht key tables don't include the common chords subtable. Perhaps this could be done. I don't perso0nally have access to an ht device so I'm a little reluctant to mess with

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Raphaël POITEVIN
Hi, Dave Mielke writes: > Oops! I forgot to say that it's a chord. In other words, it's > Space+Dots46+ either Dot7 (for text) or Dot8 (for dots). It seems not working on my Active Star. Regards, -- Raphaël www.leclavierquibave.fr ___ This message

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Sergei V. Fleytin
Dave, Thank you very much for such a rapid response! -Original Message- From: Dave Mielke Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 10:06 AM To: fley...@yandex.ru; Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille [quoted lines by Dave Mielke

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2021/03/22 at 03:00 -0400] >Assuming that your braille device has a braille keyboard, you can also set it >from there. Use Dots46 +Dot7 (for Translated via Text Table) or +Dot8 (for >Dots via Unicode Braille0. Oops! I forgot to say that it's a chord. In other

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Sergei V. Fleytin on 2021/03/22 at 09:05 +0300] >Does BRLTTY supports Unicode Braille input and output? Yes, it does. >If Unicode Braille is supported for input, which table one should use? It doesn't rely on a table. Instead, you change the Typing Mode setting within the

[BRLTTY] Unicode Braille

2021-03-22 Thread Sergei V. Fleytin
Hello! Does BRLTTY supports Unicode Braille input and output? If Unicode Braille is supported for input, which table one should use? Thanks in advance. Sergei. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode braille patterns

2020-10-23 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2020/10/23 at 07:44 -0400] Well, I decided. The latest code moves the braille pattern check after the text table lookup but before looking for a defined replacement character. So, now, anyone who wants to have different representations for the braille pattern

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode braille patterns

2020-10-23 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2020/10/22 at 10:14 -0400] >The support for them is in the core. The order is to look for braille patterns, >and then in the text table. I suppose we could look in the text table first, >thus making it possible for the table to define them. This can be done, but

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode braille patterns

2020-10-22 Thread Lars Bjørndal
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:14:22AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2020/10/22 at 01:00 -0400] > > >I think he wants to distinguish a braille 'a' from the regular letter > >'a'. Right now they're indistinguishable unless you use DESCCHAR on the > >whole screen. > >

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode braille patterns

2020-10-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2020/10/22 at 01:00 -0400] >I think he wants to distinguish a braille 'a' from the regular letter >'a'. Right now they're indistinguishable unless you use DESCCHAR on the >whole screen. That's what I thought, but I'm not convinced that that's a good idea. >My

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode braille patterns

2020-10-22 Thread Lars Bjørndal
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 01:00:38AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, Dave Mielke wrote: > > > [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2020/10/21 at 21:23 +0200] > > > > >I'm working on a project where I need to be able to quickly distinguish > > >between normal letters and braille

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode braille patterns

2020-10-21 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2020/10/21 at 21:23 +0200] > > >I'm working on a project where I need to be able to quickly distinguish > >between normal letters and braille patterns in the range 0x2800-0x28FF on > >the braille display, with BRLTTY in

Re: [BRLTTY] Unicode braille patterns

2020-10-21 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2020/10/21 at 21:23 +0200] >I'm working on a project where I need to be able to quickly distinguish >between normal letters and braille patterns in the range 0x2800-0x28FF on >the braille display, with BRLTTY in the console. On >my system, 0x2801 is displayed as

[BRLTTY] Unicode braille patterns

2020-10-21 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hi, list! I'm working on a project where I need to be able to quickly distinguish between normal letters and braille patterns in the range 0x2800-0x28FF on the braille display, with BRLTTY in the console. On my system, 0x2801 is displayed as dot 1, like a normal a. It's ok if it's displayed as a