[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2008/04/25 at 17:16 +0200] >FWIW, I've always found it a bit strange that the toggle for contraction >table usage was 6-dot braille.
The reason for that was to immediately make contracted braille available to all users without searching for a new binding in each driver. If we go to just using contraction tables then that toggle can go back to really being for six-dot braille. >If we switch all of the normal text tables over to the contraction table >system, we could select between contracted and uncontracted braille just by >selecting the appropriate table, which does seem a bit more logical than the >6-dot hack. In a way, though, that'd be less user friendly as scrolling througha long list of tables is much harder than pressing a key combination. >I think if we switch over to the contraction table system for >normal text tables, the "one character per cell" idiom has to >be preserved, otherwise I totally oppose this change. Its nice to >be able to define contractions if you need them, but I think >preserving the layout of the characters on-screen is pretty vital to >many current users, me included. The idea would be to have tables which implement the one-to-one mappings plus others which include those and add contractions. -- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ _______________________________________________ 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
