[BRLTTY] XWindow device simulator and/or mask problem

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Scott Haeger on 2006/12/04 at 16:15 -0500]

>The and/or mask on brlapi is working great.  Thank you for implementing 
>that feature.  I have a noticed a problem with the XWindows simulator 
>however.  A masked cell shows the pins correctly, but the character 
>representation is the original text.  Is this correct behavior.

Yes. The and/or masks are meant for things like highlighting, and not for text
modification. Think of underlining or drawing the cursor in print. You turn on
a few extra pixels, but the underlying character is still the same.

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