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On Thu, 15 May 2003, Jois wrote:

> Hi,
> as serial and parallel ports are disappearing from the latest hardware 
> devices, I'd like to know if developers are going to build the USB support 
> for Braille displays.

Developers are going to give you the moon even for free if only they can be
provided with specific USB protocol documentation for given braille
displays, and possibly hardware to test new code with.  Missing that we just 
can't do miracles.

> And regarding synthesizers, I did not hear anything about a multi-lingual 
> (Italian included) software synthesizer supporting GNU/Linux systems.

They do exist.  You have to pay $$$ for them.


Nicolas