[BRLTTY] Is this possible?

2007-07-19 Thread Mark L. Melonson
Hi all, I am trying to figure out a way of reading a book using only my braille display. Idealing I'd like to be able to use the line-up / line-down buttons without having to touch my keyboard, kind of like the help files. Is this possible? Because, when I'm reading a book or documentation or

Re: [BRLTTY] Is this possible?

2007-07-19 Thread Jason White
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 07:45:13PM -0600, Mark L. Melonson wrote: > > I am trying to figure out a way of reading a book using only my braille > display. Idealing I'd like to be able to use the line-up / line-down > buttons without having to touch my keyboard, kind of like the help files. > Is t

Re: [BRLTTY] Is this possible?

2007-07-19 Thread coscell
I know PowerBraille (ts driver) support this. On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Mark L. Melonson wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to figure out a way of reading a book using only my braille > display. Idealing I'd like to be able to use the line-up / line-down > buttons without having to touch my keyboard,

Re: [BRLTTY] Is this possible?

2007-07-19 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, > Some BRLTTY braille display drivers implement a "braille input mode" Some? Why not all? I'd like to use such a feature on ALVA 544 Satellite, its DOS driver has such behavior. Tomas Valusek ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list.

Re: [BRLTTY] Is this possible?

2007-07-19 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hi, > I am trying to figure out a way of reading a book using only my braille > display. Idealing I'd like to be able to use the line-up / line-down > buttons without having to touch my keyboard, kind of like the help files. > Is this possible? Yes. The bless BrlAPI client has been developed e

Re: [BRLTTY] Is this possible?

2007-07-20 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
I have a script set that might halfway meet your needs. You have to use PageDown to go to the next page but at least the braille display goes to the top of the screen automatically when you do so. There's also an embryonic version that scrolls one line every few seconds if you can stand such (I

Re: [BRLTTY] Is this possible?

2007-07-20 Thread Jason White
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:39:17AM +0200, S?bastien Hinderer wrote: > Now for the bad news: it has not been relesed yet. This is mainly > because it's written in the OCaml language and until a few days ago it > was not completely obvious how to compile the Caml bindings for BrlAPI > in brltty's sou