Hi all. I thought some people may be interested in the below. Greg ----- Forwarded message from "Larry L. Lewis, Jr." <l_lewis at ameritech.net> ----- From: "Larry L. Lewis, Jr." <l_lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "BrailleNote discussion list" <braillenote at lyris.pulsedata.co.nz> Subject: [braillenote] Braille TTY Announcement Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:24:16 -0400 Hello, For you Linux users, please find below an announcement of the release of the latest version of Braille TTY which has a Driver for the BrailleNote to act as a Braille display with this application. The announcement follows: > 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. > > -- > 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 at mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. > http://familyradio.com With Regards, Larry L. Lewis, Jr. Product Marketing Manager, BrailleNote Family Pulse Data International Ltd. 955 Pembrook Road Cleveland Heights, OH 44121 Phone: 216-381-8106 Fax: 216-381-8107 E-Mail: larryl at pulsedata.com Visit Pulse Data On The Web at http://www.pulsedata.com --------------------- You are currently subscribed to braillenote as: greg at romuald.net.eu.org To unsubscribe, Send a blank message to: leave-braillenote-2660850V at lyris.pulsedata.co.nz ----- End forwarded message -----
