[BRLTTY] General clarification on Writiing DOTs to device based on the string length

[Samuel Thibault]

Siju Samuel, le Wed 18 Dec 2013 13:37:37 -0600, a écrit :
> So do
> there have any api to know what position  of a string corresponds to the
> translated dot position of a string and send the input to writeApi accordingly?

No. Such thing would be complex and bring several client-server
exchanges.

>  How this is generally done ( to use brailapi)?

The recommended way is to render dots locally with e.g. liblouis, and
send dots thanks to brlapi_writeDots.

This is similar to X11 now mostly transferring pixmaps between clients
and server, not drawing requests.

Samuel