Hi folks, One of the things most often requested is a way to turn on 6-dot mode without turning on contractions. The thing that always gets in the way is the difficulty of defining a new keystroke for every single braille display.
So, here are two ideas, probably in reverse order of desirability: 1. How about turning the 6-dot mode toggle into a round-robin: 8-dot computer braille, 6-dot computer braille, contracted braille, and back to the beginning. The starting-point of the round robin would be the present mode. In other words, if you're in 6-dot computer braille, the first press would get contracted braille. This means that it would always be in the way for going from a mode to one of the others, but at least it'd give us a new choice. Or, 2. Push it once to toggle between 8-dot and contracted mode, the way it works now. Push it twice quickly to go from 8-dot to 6-dot computer braille or vice versa. Since 6-dot computer braille is probably the thing most people would want least often, giving it two key presses wouldn't be that much of a pain, and it wouldn't be in the way when switching into and out of contracted braille. Possible? Useful? Have fun, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA _______________________________________________ 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
