[BRLTTY] Default braille table

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Fri Oct 2 21:24:17 EDT 2009


On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2009/10/02 at 18:53 -0400]
> 
> >The --with-text-table i.e. the ability to actually change the built-in table, 
> >is probably only useful for building a stand-alone BRLTTY binary to be used in 
> >a special environment with no extra files 
> 
> Yes, especially since more and more is becoming table-driven now.
> 
> >(will that still be true with braille drivers moving to key tables?).
> 
> This indeed is a problem. The key tables cannot be compiled in at the moment. 
> Building them in could use up lots of memory since a number of drivers have 
> several key tables, i.e. one per model.

How much is lots of memory?  Preparsing a table to remove any extra 
comment/whitespace and deflating it shouldn't take that much space.  
Maybe even in its fully parsed form that could be compact enough not to 
matter that much, given that all those key mappings used to take space 
by being defined in the driver directly before.


Nicolas


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