Hi. As a user of an 81 and 88 cell display I asked myself during reading contracted braille how to maximize the amount of cells used on my display. One way that I figured out is to reconfigure my console to use something like 100x75 (in 800x600 mode). While this is mostly what I want, it has two major drawbacks: * fbset and framebuffer consoles dont work reliably on all graphics cards. I hit a situation where I can see things on my braille display, but my monitor goes out of sync for some reason and sighted coworkers can no longer see anything. * Its kind of a pain if you are switching in and out of contracted braille mode since a 100 character wide line is longer than the usually available amount of cells, which results in needless side-scrolling.
I was wondering, could we make this possible inside brltty? For a start, I was thinking: If the following line starts with a letter (after skipping space) and not with punctuation, and it would fit (contracted) on the end of the current line, add it there, and emit a slight beep when scrolling downward so that you know you "skipped" a line. Any thoughts? -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
