[BRLTTY] English grade 2: Obtaining maximum occupancy

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Right now I'm reading a text file in which new paragraphs are signaled by 
the lines being indented several spaces. These are translated into one space 
in grade 2.

Under the old rules a braille string that starts with a space was always a 
new paragraph. Under the current ones such a string may merely be the 
continuation of a line in which the previous string ended on the last 
character. This leads to ambiguities, especially on displays without status 
cells where it's not clear whether you're in the middle of a line or at its 
beginning.

Outside of a long URL or other compound word such as a symbol in a program, 
the beginning of the first word on a braille string is guaranteed to be the 
beginning of that new word. I think the old rule led to fewer uncertainties 
than the current one.

Note also that if the last word on a screen line ends in the last cell of 
the display you'll still have the situation where there is no blank cell 
between the end of that word and the beginning of the next word (on the next 
string). Please don't "fix" this one too or I'll really be up the creek. :-)

-- 
Lee Maschmeyer
Computing Center Services
Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA