Release 3.10 of BRLTTY is now available. It can be downloaded from BRLTTY's website, which is at: http://mielke.cc/brltty/ Select "Download", and then "Current Release". The major changes from release 3.9 to release 3.10 are as follows: The core and drivers (excluding text tables) are now Unicode-based. The DESCCHAR function now shows (if possible) the character's name. Linear cuts no longer include newline characters. Specifying the braille device as "serial:" now defaults to the first serial device. Add a driver for the Braille Sense. Bring the French manual fully up-to-date (was at 3.6). Linux-specific changes: Don't unnecessarily wake up USB devices when searching. Albatross braille driver changes: Correctly handle keys which send their code on both press and release. Baum braille driver changes: Bind TL1+TR3 to the BACK funct5ion. EuroBraille braille driver changes: Rewritten. Add support for the Iris PC keyboard. Add key binding to do Shift+Tab directly (dots 235 + space). New EsysIris key bindings: VK_L34 -> FREEZE VK_L67 -> HOME FreedomScientific braille driver changes: New PAC Mate key bindings: routing key + left wheel press -> SETLEFT routing key + right wheel press -> DESCCHAR General speech support changes: Add a preference for setting the pitch. Add a preference for setting the punctuation level. SpeechDispatcher speech driver changes: Change the connection name to "main" (from "driver"). Single character entry/deletion now always speaks. Try to reopen the connection if an error occurs. Support setting pitch and punctuation level. Theta speech driver changes: It wouldn't compile with newer gccs. Linux screen driver changes: Now works on big endian architectures. Add support for multi-byte character sets. Add the Charset= parameter. Add support for the right Alt key (AltGr). PcBios screen driver changes: Add AT/XT scancode support. Windows screen driver changes: Add the FollowFocus= parameter. Add AT/XT scancode support. Text table changes: Rename no-h to no-generic. Rename no-p to no-oub [Offentlig Utvalg for Blindeskrift]. Contraction table changes: Unicode characters can be specified by value [\uxxxx]. Unicode characters can be specified by name [\<name>]. When the cursor is: * On a word - it is uncontracted (not rendered in computer braille). * Between words - the space is expanded. Rename the opcode "repeated" to "repeatable". Fixes to the English Grade 2 [en-us-g2] table. Fix the UEB [Unified English Braille] percent sign. Fixes to the Chinese [zh-...] tables. Rename zh-tw-big5 to zh-tw. Remove zh-tw-gb2312. Remove zh-tw-utf8. BrlAPI changes: Now at release 0.5.2. Present a blinking cursor if that's what the user has configured. Install/uninstall "/var/lib/BrlAPI/". Caml bindings changes: Install and uninstall now work properly. Java bindings changes: Package the classes into org.a11y.BrlAPI. Rename the classes to remove the (now redundant) Brlapi prefix. Python bindings changes: Improved error handling facilities. tbltest changes: Added the -e [--edit] option for editing a text table. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@xxxxxxxxx | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ _______________________________________________ Blinux-announce mailing list Blinux-announce@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-announce