BRLTTY and grade 2 english braille.

BRLTTY and grade 2 english braille.

[Dave Mielke]

The latest beta release of BRLTTY now supports grade 2 US English Braille.
Please try it out and give us feedback so that we can improve it where
necessary.  Please also verify that all BRLTTY features which you need are
working correctly. If all is well, BRLTTY 3.0 will finally be released in a
couple of weeks. Download this latest version of BRLTTY as follows:

    Go to: http://mielke.cc/brltty/
    Select: Download
    Select: Current Release
    Read a few lines till you find "latest beta".
    Download: brltty-2.99.7.tar.gz

The contracted Braille feature isn't yet documented, but that'll come. For now,
here's its "secret activation code".

First: Invoke BRLTTY with its new -c (--contraction-table=) option, specifying
the Grade 2 US English Braille contraction table (en-us-g2.ctb).

    brltty -c en-us-g2.ctb

Second: Activate the six-dot braille feature. This can be done either via
BRLTTY's preferences menu or with whatever the right key combination is for
your particular braille display.

Third: That's it! The six-dot braille feature does it's normal thing, i.e.
just turn off dots 7 and 8, if a contraction table isn't specified, but does
in-line braille contracting if one is.

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Re: BRLTTY and grade 2 english braille.

[Mario Lang]

Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc> writes:

> The latest beta release of BRLTTY now supports grade 2 US English Braille.
Wow! I am highly impressed.  Great work and thanks to everyone who might have
been involed!  Is someone already working on German contraction table?
I looked at the tbl format and it looks very simple to modify and tweak! Great!

So if no one already does, I might try to achieve some basic german
contraction settings.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario

Re: BRLTTY and grade 2 english braille.

[John J. Boyer]

Mario,
You have the right idea. People who speak different languages can just
create contraction tables for their own languages using the en-us-g2.ctb
table as a model. Write to Dave about this. He is co-ordinating the
work.
John
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Mario Lang wrote:

> Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc> writes:
>
> > The latest beta release of BRLTTY now supports grade 2 US English Braille.
> Wow! I am highly impressed.  Great work and thanks to everyone who might have
> been involed!  Is someone already working on German contraction table?
> I looked at the tbl format and it looks very simple to modify and tweak! Great!
>
> So if no one already does, I might try to achieve some basic german
> contraction settings.
>
>

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Re: BRLTTY and grade 2 english braille.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Mario Lang on March 21, 2002, at 19:26]

>Is someone already working on German contraction table?

No. We, mostly John (see the ChangeLog), have only been working on English
braille so far. For one thing, we wanted to get this stuff out to the public
sooner rather than later. For another, that's all we know.

>So if no one already does, I might try to achieve some basic german
>contraction settings.

That'd be very much appreciated. Please do let me know if you need more rules
than are implemented so far.

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