[BRLTTY] Braille tables versus contraction tables.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Jason White on 2008/05/01 at 19:47 +1000]

>If an op code were added, you should coordinate this with John Boyer, I think, 
>as we don't want BRLTTY and liblouis to diverge in incompatible ways if this 
>can be avoided.

It's already happened with brltty's introduction of class,before,after (and 
perhaps other features).

>This is drifting off-topic for this thread, and I haven't looked at the code
>recently, but is the BRLTTY preferences file stored in a format that is
>guaranteed to be independent of byte order and word size? 

Yes.

>If not, I think it
>should be replaced by a textual format, which would also reinforce the Unix
>convention that configuration files, including those in a user's home
>directory, are text files rather than binary.

That also happens to be my personal "preference".

>The cost would be negligible CPU usage in writing and parsing the text file.

And in increased binary size, but, as stated in an earlier post, I really don't 
think we're still in the days of having to work overtime to keep it small.

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