[BRLTTY] Can BRLTTY indicaste indentation?

[Tom Masterson]

I use bratty all the time for programming.  However python standard says to use spaces not tabs and in fact most programming standards I use require spaces because tabs cause issues for visual as well as blind people.  I use a 40 cell display and never use speech for coding.

Tom

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> On Aug 21, 2020, at 08:30, Adrian van Bloois <adrian at pa0rda.nl> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:06:47AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
>> My display is 40 cells. Five tabs of eight spaces will make it blank.
>> Speech screenreaders indicate indentation. Why not Braille?
> I worked as a programmer for ages and I never ever used brltty for this
> sort of things.
> Identation is within the text and to be interpreted by the reader.
> There are programs to put identation on a source code within Linux e.g..
> If you use a 40 cell display then you are using the wrong hammer for the
> job.
> In my professional life I alwasy worked with 80 cell displays.
> 
>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:54:53AM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:35:30AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
>>>> [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on 2020/08/21 at 05:27 -0500]
>>>> 
>>>>> it is really the business of the screenreader. So I am wondering if BRLTY has
>>>>> a way of indicating indentation.
>>>> 
>>>> Can you give an example of what you mean?
>>> I admit I am curious as well as I do Python all the time and have no
>>> issue with indentation. Perhaps he means replace a tab with a single
>>> character to minimise scrolling?
>>> S.M.
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