Re: Progress With Braille output!

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Mario,


On Wed, 21 May 2003, Mario Lang wrote:
> I guess you already know about the brltty brlapi?

No. I don't know about it, but it sounds like something i should learn. 
Where can i find it? 

Thanks,
John

> If anyone is working on integrating that with Gnopernicus, I'd be
> happy to hear from you.  There will be many requests like "My display is not
> supported by Gnopernicus", as soon as more people get to know about
> it.  Having a interface to brltty's brlapi would solve those
> kind of problems once and for all, since brltty already has drivers for
> about 12 different models IIRC.  Another advantage of using
> brlapi would be that there are no collision of two screen readers trying
> to use the same serial port, since brlapi (from what I can gather reading the code)
> lets a client register for a specific tty.  So Gnopernicus
> would register for the tty where X is running, and that would allow
> for the usually terminal switching without the need to stop or start
> any screen readers explicitly.
> 
> 

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