[BRLTTY] Word wrap in the console

Justin Pospical jpospical at fastmail.com
Tue Mar 29 00:52:35 EDT 2022


I can confirm this as well with brltty 6.4 on Arch. Didn't report it because I was unsure if it was a quirk of my setup.

Justin

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022, at 21:24, John J. Boyer wrote:
> I am using the English UEB Grade 2 table. It does not word wrap. It 
> ddid before I upgraded to Debian Bokworm.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 06:07:18PM -0400, Jason White wrote:
>> Quick update: no change after shutting down the X session.
>> 
>> The same results occur with the UEB and English US contraction tables.
>> 
>> The braille display is a Freedom Scientific/Focus 40 Blue (5th).
>> 
>> Interesting...
>> 
>> On 28/3/22 18:01, Jason White wrote:
>> > 
>> > On 28/3/22 16:39, Dave Mielke wrote:
>> > > Word Wrap only applies to computer braille, i.e. it doesn't apply to
>> > > contracted braille (primarily because contracted braille always word
>> > > wraps). It also doesn't apply when some other program, e.g. Orca, is
>> > > in control of the display.
>> > 
>> > Interestingly, I'm getting contracted braille that is not word wrapped
>> > (in the console).
>> > 
>> > I'll try it without Orca running in the X session in case this is
>> > responsible.
>> > 
>> > 
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