BRLTTY 3.0 has been released. It can be downloaded from BRLTTY's web
site at:
http://mielke.cc/brltty/
A lot has taken place since the last officially stable minor release,
2.98, about a year ago. Although you should check the ChangeLog for
the details, here's a brief summary of some of them.
* Enhancements have been made to the Alva, BrailleLite, EuroBraille,
MiniBraille, Papenmeier, TSI, Vario(RBT), VideoBraille, and
VisioBraille braille display drivers.
* Drivers have been added for the BrailleNote, HandyTech, LogText,
and Voyager braille displays.
* Enhancements have been made to the ExternalSpeech, and GenericSay
speech synthesizer drivers.
* A driver has been added for IBM's ViaVoice software speech
synthesizer.
* The command line options and the configuration file directives
have been normalized.
* The preferences menu has been made more user-friendly.
* Options have been added to support invoking BRLTTY from
/etc/inittab.
* Alert tunes can now be played, in addition to the PC speaker, via
the soundcard, MIDI device, and FM (OPL3, AdLib) interfaces.
* If alert tunes are off, or if, for some reason, they can't be
played, critical events briefly display a short message on the
braille display.
* An in-line grade 2 English braille translator has been added.
* There's a new bootdisk paradigm which consumes less disk space.
* Parameters (of the form BRLTTY_...) can now be passed to BRLTTY at
boot time either via LILO's boot prompt or via its append
directive.
* The patch which enables BRLTTY to be used with the screen
application, rather than directly on the Linux console, has been
upgraded to support screen 3.9.11.
* The manual has been brought up-to-date.
* In addition to a tar file, BRLTTY can now be downloaded as an RPM
(RedHat Package Manager) file.
Several braille display commands have been added (although some
displays don't support all of them yet).
* Put the braille display back where it was before a cursor tracking
operation moved it unexpectedly.
* Begin a block which is to be appended to the current cut buffer.
* Perform a linear (rather than rectangular) cut.
* Display the value and highlighting of a specific character.
* Shift the left end of the braille display to a specific column
(great for reading columnar output).
* Go to the previous or next shell prompt.
* Mark (remember) the current position of the braille display by
associating it with a cursor routing key.
* Move the braille display back to a previously marked position.
* Switch to the previous or next virtual terminal.
* Enter interactive braille display command learn mode.
As usual, we welcome any and all feedback regarding this latest
release.
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