Right now I'm reading a text file in which new paragraphs are signaled by the lines being indented several spaces. These are translated into one space in grade 2.
Under the old rules a braille string that starts with a space was always a new paragraph. Under the current ones such a string may merely be the continuation of a line in which the previous string ended on the last character. This leads to ambiguities, especially on displays without status cells where it's not clear whether you're in the middle of a line or at its beginning. Outside of a long URL or other compound word such as a symbol in a program, the beginning of the first word on a braille string is guaranteed to be the beginning of that new word. I think the old rule led to fewer uncertainties than the current one. Note also that if the last word on a screen line ends in the last cell of the display you'll still have the situation where there is no blank cell between the end of that word and the beginning of the next word (on the next string). Please don't "fix" this one too or I'll really be up the creek. :-) -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
