| README file for the Papenmeier Driver |
| ===================================== |
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| Version 2.1 (October 2001) |
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| Copyright |
| ========= |
| |
| This driver is copyrighted under the GNU Lesser General Public License. |
| It is free software. See the file 'LICENSE-LGPL' for more details. |
| Feel free to send your comments and to report bugs (if any :)) to us at |
| august.hoerandl@gmx.at or heimo.schoen@gmx.at |
| |
| Supported Hardware |
| ================== |
| This driver is supposed to work with all the Papenmeier Terminals. |
| The driver is able to autodetect the connected terminal. |
| |
| Connection |
| ========== |
| This driver supports serial and USB communication. |
| |
| Running the Driver |
| ================== |
| To compile and run BRLTTY, please refer to the documentation about |
| BRLTTY itself. One note though: when BRLTTY starts, it will display |
| on the screen some copyright stuff, current configuration (model and |
| firmware version setup) and the device in use. That information |
| may be useful if nothing happens with the braille terminal. |
| |
| |
| Key Bindings and Status Cells |
| ============================= |
| The driver is fully configurable - all key bindings and the status cells |
| can be fully programmed: |
| |
| The configuration can be done by |
| - changing the default configuration in the source file brl-cfg.h |
| any changes will be distributed to the online help during compile |
| - edit the config file /etc/brltty/brltty-pm.conf; don't forget to supply |
| a fitting help file |
| |
| If you don't want to use the config file you can safely remove the |
| config file /etc/brltty/brltty-pm.conf and use the compiled in |
| defaults. By default the driver is compiled with the READ_CONFIG |
| symbol defined. Without this symbols the code to read the config file |
| won't be compiled into the driver which yields a driver with a much |
| smaller size. |
| |
| Help File: |
| ========== |
| The online help is generated from the compiled in defaults - it uses |
| the same syntax as the config file to give the user a short overview of |
| the status cells and the keymapping. |
| By default the help command is mapped to the key on the first status cell. |
| |
| Config File |
| =========== |
| The configuration file may include the definitions for several terminals. |
| Look at Papenmeier/brltty-pm.conf and the Papenmeier/*.hlp files for |
| examples. |
| |
| Syntax: |
| # Comment to the end of line |
| name = value you can use 'is' instead of '='; actually you don't have to |
| write '=', 'is' or 'and' at all. The following lines are equivalent: |
| name = val |
| name is val |
| name val |
| |
| Start a new terminal definition: |
| identification = NUMBER |
| the number is the code returned by the terminal on identification |
| request; this starts a new terminal defintion - no need to change this info |
| |
| Info about the terminal - Name and size of the terminal: |
| terminal = "String to describe the Terminal" |
| helpfile = "brltty-pm1.hlp" # name of the helpfile |
| displaysize = 40 # number of cells |
| statuscells = 0 # number of status cells (horizontal or vertical) |
| frontkeys = 9 # number of keys on the front of the terminal |
| haseasybar # terminal has an easybar (EL types) |
| |
| Terminal settings: |
| Statusdisplay settings: |
| there are different display modes: |
| flag: left half: line number, right half: no/all bits set - used with |
| vertical status cells |
| horiz: two digits on the vertical status-display |
| number: display two digits in one cell (status on horiz.display) |
| example: |
| status 4 = horiz cursorcol |
| status 6 = flag tracking |
| a list of the possible info to display (see brl.h and/or Papenmeier/hlp.auto.h) |
| current - current line number |
| row - cursor position - row |
| col - cursor position - column |
| tracking - cursor tracking |
| dispmode - dispmode (text / attribut) |
| frozen - screen frozen |
| visible - cursor visible |
| size - cursor size |
| blink - cursor blink |
| capitalblink - capital letter blink |
| dots - 6 or 8 dots |
| sound - sound |
| skip - skip identical lines |
| underline - attribute underlining |
| blinkattr - blinking of attribute underlining |
| |
| Key definition: |
| status NUMBER - key on status cell |
| front NUMBER - key on the front side of the terminal |
| routing - one of the routing keys is pressed |
| easy DESCR - easy bar key |
| DESCR may be: left, left2, up, up2, down, down2, right, right2 |
| switch NUMBER - switches on the left and right side of the |
| display; numbered from 1 (leftmost switch up) to 8 (rightmost switch down) |
| |
| Modifier key settings: |
| any key can be defined as a modifier (like the shift or alt key on the |
| standard keyboard). |
| |
| Input mode: |
| during inputmode the modifier keys are used to input the 8 dots of a |
| character. Attention: the modifiers keys are used to simulate |
| the different dots, so INPUTMODE or INPUTMODE OFF should be |
| mapped to a single key. |
| |
| Commandkey settings: |
| list of definitions: |
| command = key |
| command = modifier and key |
| The command is executed on keypress; if you specify only modifiers |
| the command is executed when the first modifier is released. |
| For commands which toggle a setting it is possible to add ON or OFF to |
| the command to define a predictable state change |
| command ON = <as above> |
| command OFF = <as above> |
| A list of the possible commands (the following list is sometimes out of |
| date - see brldefs.h and/or Papenmeier/hlp.auto.h for the actual values), the names |
| may be used with or without the leading CMD_: |
| NOOP - do nothing |
| LNUP - go up one line |
| LNDN - go down one line |
| WINUP - go up several lines |
| WINDN - go down several lines |
| PRDIFLN - go up to line with different content |
| NXDIFLN - go down to line with different content |
| ATTRUP - go up to line with different attributes |
| ATTRDN - go down to line with different attributes |
| PRBLNKLN - go to last line of previous paragraph |
| NXBLNKLN - go to first line of next paragraph |
| PRSEARCH - search up for content of cut buffer |
| NXSEARCH - search down for content of cut buffer |
| TOP - go to top line |
| BOT - go to bottom line |
| TOP_LEFT - go to top-left corner |
| BOT_LEFT - go to bottom-left corner |
| CHRLT - go left one character |
| CHRRT - go right one character |
| HWINLT - go left one half window |
| HWINRT - go right one half window |
| FWINLT - go left one full window |
| FWINRT - go right one full window |
| FWINLTSKIP - go left to non-blank window |
| FWINRTSKIP - go right to non-blank window |
| LNBEG - go to beginning of line |
| LNEND - go to end of line |
| HOME - go to cursor |
| BACK - go to last motion |
| CSRJMP - route cursor to top-left corner of braille window |
| CSRJMP_VERT - route cursor to top line of window |
| CUT_BEG - cut text from top-left corner of braille window |
| CUT_END - cut text to bottom-right corner of braille window |
| PASTE - insert cut buffer at cursor |
| FREEZE - freeze/unfreeze screen |
| DISPMD - toggle display attributes/text |
| SIXDOTS - toggle text style 6-dot/8-dot |
| SLIDEWIN - toggle sliding window on/off |
| SKPIDLNS - toggle skipping of identical lines on/off |
| SKPBLNKWINS - toggle skipping of blank windows on/off |
| CSRVIS - toggle cursor visibility on/off |
| CSRHIDE_QK - toggle quick hide of cursor |
| CSRTRK - toggle cursor tracking on/off |
| CSRSIZE - toggle cursor style underline/block |
| CSRBLINK - toggle cursor blinking on/off |
| ATTRVIS - toggle attribute underlining on/off |
| ATTRBLINK - toggle attribute blinking on/off |
| CAPBLINK - toggle capital letter blinking on/off |
| SND - toggle sound on/off |
| HELP - display driver help |
| INFO - display status summary |
| PREFMENU - present preferences menu |
| PREFSAVE - save preferences |
| PREFLOAD - reload preferences |
| SAY - speak current line |
| SAYALL - speak rest of screen |
| MUTE - stop speaking immediately |
| SPKHOME - goto current/last speech position |
| SWITCHVT_PREV - switch to previous virtual terminal |
| SWITCHVT_NEXT - switch to next virtual terminal |
| RESTARTBRL - reinitialize braille driver |
| RESTARTSPEECH - reinitialize speech driver |
| INPUTMODE - toggle input mode |
| Values to be used in combination with "routing": |
| names may be used with or without the leading CR_: |
| ROUTEOFFSET - route cursor to character |
| BEGBLKOFFSET - define the beginning of a block |
| ENDBLKOFFSET - define the end of a block |
| SWITCHVT - switch virtual terminal |
| NXINDENT - find next line not more indented than routing key indicates |
| PRINDENT - find previous line not more indented than routing key indicates |
| MSGATTRIB - message attributes of character |
| Special commands to send keystrokes, |
| the names may be used with or without the leading VPK_: |
| RETURN - send RETURN key |
| TAB - send TAB key |
| BACKSPACE - send BACKSPACE key |
| ESCAPE - send ESCAPE key |
| CURSOR_LEFT - send CURSOR_LEFT key |
| CURSOR_RIGHT - send CURSOR_RIGHT key |
| CURSOR_UP - send CURSOR_UP key |
| CURSOR_DOWN - send CURSOR_DOWN key |
| PAGE_UP - send PAGE_UP key |
| PAGE_DOWN - send PAGE_DOWN key |
| HOME - send HOME key |
| END - send END key |
| INSERT - send INSERT key |
| DELETE - send DELETE key |
| FUNCTION - send FUNCTION key |