[BRLTTY] Multiple contraction tables.
Jason White
jasonw at ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au
Fri Sep 21 22:55:35 EDT 2007
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:59:08AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> I've been asked if we could make it easier for those who must use more than one
> contraction table to switch amongst them more easily. I'm asking, therefore,
> for syntax suggestions. Here's one I've thought of:
>
> The -c option could accept a comma-delimited list of tables. If only one is
> specified then the preferences menu selector would still work as it does now,
> i.e. present all available tables. If, however, more than one table is
> specified then the preferences menu selector would only present the specified
> tables.
This is a reasonable design, but with one disadvantage: the user still has to
navigate through the preferences menu to change the selected table.
In the longer term, it would be valuable to have a tool that can be executed
from the shell which connects to a running BRLTTY and changes specified
configuration settings - including tables.
On a related point, I notice that, when using BRLAPI applications, I can't
switch to contracted braille as I can from the console. BRLAPI doesn't support
changing braille tables, enabling or disabling contractions, etc. I think
there should be some programmatic interface that can adjust these options,
whether part of BRLAPI or separately from it.
I recently tried Orca, and apart from other problems, the inability to switch
into contracted braille is a major limitation: reading documents, Web pages
for example, in uncontracted braille is not a solution that I could tolerate,
because I find reading contracted braille to be much faster.
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