[BRLTTY] Contracted braille and current word

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hi Dave

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote on Do, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:05:52 -0400:
>[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2011/06/15 at 23:55 -0400]
>
>>I don't think these are the same kind of situation. I very seldom want
>>six dots without contractions, and when I do I can get it through a
>>temporary mod to the preferences menu to turn off the contraction
>>table. Changing the toggle just makes it easier.
>>
>>But I will always want to contract the whole line. It's something I
>>will set and forget, like Skip rest of line.
>>
>>You could make it a three-way toggle: 8 dots, 6 dots with contraction,
>>6 dots without contraction, but this means we'd have to push it twice
>>to get back to 8 dots. This might not be a bad idea as the 8/6 dots
>>toggle isn't tremendously easy on some devices like the ABT340. But if
>>the "twice quickly" is generous enough it could work reasonably
>>well. 
>
>So I probably didn't do it the best way, then. You'd like the Text Style 
>selector to have three choices (8-dot computer braille, 6-dot computer braille, 
>contracted braille), and for the new Six Dots Mode selector to become Expand 
>Current Word. Would that be better?
>
>Any other votes/suggestions?
As long as I have 8-dot whole-line contracted braille, I'm fine with every other
solution.

Regards
Sebastian
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