[BRLTTY] Broken colour names

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2015/11/17 at 10:23 +0200]

>I could not get the blink attribute working on Linux console. Traditionally it
>changed the background colour to be bright, as the bold attribute does for the
>foreground colour.

I know what you mean, but your wording may be a bit confusing. The blink bit is 
the same bit in the background nibble as the bright foreground bit in the 
foreground nibble.

Blinking should work if your font has 256 or less characters in it. If you have 
from 257 through 512 characters in your font then the blink capability is lost 
as one of the bits in the background nibble needs to be used in order to have a 
9-bit font offset.

-- 
Dave Mielke           | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God.
Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario   | http://Mielke.cc/bible/
EMail: Dave at Mielke.cc | Canada  K2A 1H7   | http://FamilyRadio.org/