[BRLTTY] English grade 2: Obtaining maximum occupancy

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2008/03/20 at 11:01 -0400]

>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.

This has convinced me. The old rule is back, but with one major difference. 
Now, even between words which are joined together, a sequence of blanks is 
fully expanded if the cursor is on them.

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