[BRLTTY] BrlAPI and contiguous displays

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Sun Apr 29 20:41:54 EDT 2007


[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/04/29 at 19:37 -0400]

>Note that most displays usually have status cells, when they do have 
>them, separate from the main display.  So an Alva display with 40 cells 
>and 3 status cells doesn't have a 43 cell contiguous display but 
>actually a 3 cell display and a separate 40 cell display.

That's understood. It'd be up to the driver as to how it supports and
advertises each model. Even in the case of the Evolution, there are other
HandyTech models which have real status cells too.

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