BRLTTY 3.1 is now available at:
http://mielke.cc/brltty/
When there, click on "Download", and then click on "Current Release". You may
download it either as a compressed tar ball (.tar.gz) or as an rpm.
The most important changes in this version of BRLTTY are as follows:
The brltty binary has moved from /sbin to /bin. After installing this version
of BRLTTY, please ensure that whichever scripts and/or configuration files you
use to invoke the brltty binary are modified appropriately.
BRLTTY can now be built with gcc 3.
BRLTTY's build procedure now uses autoconf, which means that the configure
script in its top-level directory must be run before doing the make. Rather
than modifying the top-level make file, customizations must now be made by
passing build options to the configure script. For example:
cd /pth/to/brltty-3.1
./configure --with-braille-driver=handytech --with-braille-device=/dev/ttyS1
make
For a complete list of available build options, do:
./configure --help
Note the various --disable-... build options. Each allows a component of BRLTTY
to be excluded from the build. This feature allows a smaller, albeit less
functional, binary to be built, and is a tool which can be used when trying to
fit BRLTTY onto a full boot disk.
BRLTTY can now be built for the Solaris operating system (from Sun
Microsystems). It'll be on the next accessibility companion CD for Solaris 9
scheduled for release early in 2003. This achievement marks BRLTTY's first
forray into the non-Linux community.
An experimental two-way interaction with gpm (see the --enable-gpm build
option) has been added. This allows the mouse to drag the braille window
(enabling a sighted observer to easily position it), and, conversely, also
allows the mouse pointer to follow motions of the braille window (enabling a
sighted observer to see exactly where the braille user is reading).
Otehr changes to BRLTTY in this version include:
* More intuitive braille window placement when sliding window is off.
* A braille table for Vietnamese has been added.
* Attribute viewing and underlining now work with contracted braille.
* Using the ViaVoice speech driver no longer hangs BRLTTY.
* Screen fonts containing 512 characters are now supported.
* The describe character command now shows the correct colour names.
* More key bindings have been added for the Braille Star.
* The closed source Alva parallel port library has been removed.
* The Vario-HT driver has been renamed to VarioHT (dash removed).
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As usual, check the ChangeLog (in the Documents subdirectory) for more details.
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