[BRLTTY] Braille tables versus contraction tables.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2008/04/28 at 11:11 -0400]

>> If we use contraction tables in place of the strictly one-to-one text tables, 
>> what are your collective thoughts on the one major difference that contraction 
>> table support splits braille windows on word boundaries whereas text table 
>> support doesn't?
>
>Could you precise what kind of thoughts you're after?

It's simply that there is that difference and I'm looking for ideas. When 
reading contracted braille one typically doesn't want a partial word at either 
end of the display so, if the last word doesn't fit, the software backs up to 
the nearest word break. When reading uncontracted braille, however, one 
typically wants the break from one braille window to the next to occur wherever 
it happens to be, including in the middle of a word. It'd be a shame to have to 
keep the two types of tables just because of that simple usage difference.

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