>From what I understand (and have seen), it's fairly easy to edit the keymap right now. A statement like " spk key_numleft = prev_char" makes a bit of sense to me at least (note that I haven't looked at a keymap in 3 months or more, so don't go quoting me on the syntax anyone). As to building keymaps from scratch, a solution would be farily easy; you'd need ncurses, cbreak, a list of speakup functions... I'm going on a tangent. --- Life is either tragedy or comedy. Usually it's your choice. You can whine or you can laugh. --Animorphs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry D. Cudney" <terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:41 PM Subject: Laptop keymap... was: battery on notebook > Hi all, > > Yes, Janina, you are right here. It is part of the speakup patches applied > when you select speakup in the configuration of your kernel. I designed > the keymapping to emulate the numeric keypad layout for the most part. > David Borowski integrated it into the speakup patches and Kirk included it > with them in CVS speakup. > > This was done over a year ago, and David said that he was thinking of > making user-definable keymappings easy at that time, I haven't heard from > him in a long time. So I don't know if this is still in his 'to-do' list > or not. > > I haven't messed with it since last year so I can't explain > accurately/briefly what would be needed to alter the keymappings. However, > it should not be too hard to do. Essentially, what you would need to do to > customize your keymap to personal preference is: > > After applying the CVS patches for speakup, modify the keymap definitions > in: > > /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/speakupmap.map > > to suit your preferences. Then compile/install the kernel as normal and > Congratulations! you now have your very own keymap definition. > > I'd suggest not doing this unless you are comfortable with compiling the > kernel. ... and if something breaks... well, like Kirk says, "You get to > keep all the pieces"! > > Read on... > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:56:04PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: >> Sure is, and probably installed by default. >> >> The capslock key becomes the Speakup modifier. The rest is a la pop up >> keyboard, e.g. CapsLock-I is read current line and CapsLock-O is read >> next line. >> >> This isn't laptop specific. You can do it on a full 104 if you want to >> save your shoulder. I'm trying to do this more and more because my >> shoulder is showing signs of repetitive stress after 20 years of >> computing. I've even looked around for a keyboard with a left-handed >> numeric keypad because of that, but the pop up screen review is smarter. > Glad you like it Janina! I use it on all my keyboards too. But not > everyone likes the same layout! :-0 > >> What I have been meaning to ask Kirk and the others who work on coding >> these things is how hard or easy it might be to provide a means to flip >> the qwerty definitions. For example, to split bilaterally down the >> qwerty between g and h so that CapsLock (or left alt or some such) plus >> E becomes current line. > You can do that if you want. See above. > > > HTH, > > --terry > > -- > > Name: Terry D. Cudney > Phone: (705) 422-0039 > E-mail: terry at wasaga.dyns.net > > Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... > having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
