[BRLTTY] Contracted braille and current word

[Lee Maschmeyer]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:14:42PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2011/06/15 at 08:26 -0400]
> 
> >On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 09:30:51AM +0200, Sebastian Humenda wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> is it possible to enable the contraction of the whole line, even for the
> >> word where the cursor is placed? For continuous reading this is more
> >> convenient than having a not-contracted word.
> >
> >Boy would I love to see this capability added. It could be a switch in
> >the config file since I'd never turn it off.
> 
> Should it simply be a two-choice setting for if the current word is
> contracted or not, or should it be a contraction mode setting with several
> choices? If the latter, what other useful modes can you think of?

One thing I've been thinking of for awhile is the 6/8 dot
switching. Would this work:

If you push it once it toggles between 6 and 8 does as it does now.

If you push it twice quickly it goes to 6 dots without contraction.

Then add a toggle in the config file that means:

If contractions are on, expand the current word.

This switch would have to be available all the time I think, so I can
permanently set it to not expand the word and whenever I go into
contracted mode the word won't be expanded. This is how I have Jaws
set and have found little trouble counting letters as I arrow across a
contraction.

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Lee Maschmeyer

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