When you enable 6-dot Braille mode, the use of dots 7 and 8 on the input keyboard is lost, they are ignored completely except in chord commands and if enabled to perform editing functions when pressed alone.

To reenable the use of dot 7, so that you can press it in conjunction with a Braille character to shift that character, use the option symbol "7" in the driver configuration string.

For example, pressing dots 17 results in an uppercase letter "a" if Caps Lock is off, or a lowercase letter "a" if Caps Lock is on.

The action of the "7" option depends upon the 6/8 dot setting of Braille dots mode. If 6-dot mode is active, "7" enables the use of dot 7 as a capitaliser, as above. But if this option is used when 8-dot Braille mode is in effect, it disables shifting with dot 7. Thus the order of these options in the driver configuration string is important: if you want 6-dot Braille mode with dot 7 enabled, you must use "67", not "76", which would leave dot 7 disabled as part of the 6-dot mode setting.

Note that the setting of dot 7 as a shift modifier is independent of the setting of dots 78 together as a control modifier, which works if enabled even if dot 7 on tis own is disabled.

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Using Dot 7 as a Capitaliser