[BRLTTY] Using some of the text cells as status cells.

[Mario Lang]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

> It's possible that text cells are inadvertently either wasted or missing, e.g. 
> if "Status Count" isn't set to match the selected "Status Style" size.
> What do you think about a count of 0 meaning auto-select?

My initial idea goes the other way round, what about autoselecting a style
with a size that can fit based on the Status count setting?
But now that I think of it, Status Count 0 is really a mute
option since its basically the same as Status Position None.
So we might indeed overload 0 with autofit style size...

> I'm also wondering what to do with the Generic style. We could just ignore
> it, or we could invent something useful for it. One thing we could
> do, for example, is start with the most important cell (perhaps line
> number of braille window), and move to progressively less important
> pieces of information. Then the user could set the count as needed
> for how much he wants to know. Just an idea to stimulate thought.

That is probably a bit too unflexible to be useful in reality because
it wouldn't allow the user to define "compression" methods like
the "write digits above each other" trick.  And especially for
flags like we have a lot of, the "merge into dots of a cell" thing
that the Tieman style does is probably what the user wants.

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