[BRLTTY] Speak indentation

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hi all

Nicolas Pitre schrieb am 11.09.2018, 11:50 -0400:
>On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Dave Mielke wrote:
>
>> [quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2018/09/09 at 19:28 +0200]
>> 
>> >I would like to request a functionality that, if switched on, would the number
>> >and kind of indentation when changing the current line. 
>> 
>> What about when line numbering is turned on? In that case, the calculated
>> indentation would be that of the line number - not of the text.
>> 
>> Likewise, what about when on a wrapped segment of a long line?
>
>Editors have configurations to deal with that themselves. I don't think 
>it is appropriate for BRLTTY to try to interpret such things.
I think you are misunderstanding me in this regard. As a speech-only user, you
need a way to figure out *while reading code* to what depth your code is
indented. The editor won't help you there, because it is BRLTTY doing the screen
reading. Sure, I could script my editor to read this information on a key press,
but that ignores the job of a screen reader, presenting information in a
different way to the user.

@Dave, yes, line numbers and wrapped lines are problematic, because they can't
be distinguished from "normal" text. However, as a speech user, I have turned
off line numbers most of the time. I find it too distracting to listen to
numbers on each line. I think a documentation stanza that this feature won't
work for line numbers should be enough.

Thanks
Sebastian
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