[BRLTTY] Six-dot braille without contractions

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Hi folks,

One of the things most often requested is a way to turn on 6-dot mode 
without turning on contractions. The thing that always gets in the way is 
the difficulty of defining a new keystroke for every single braille display.

So, here are two ideas, probably in reverse order of desirability:

1. How about turning the 6-dot mode toggle into a round-robin: 8-dot 
computer braille, 6-dot computer braille, contracted braille, and back to 
the beginning. The starting-point of the round robin would be the present 
mode. In other words, if you're in 6-dot computer braille, the first press 
would get contracted braille.

This means that it would always be in the way for going from a mode to one 
of the others, but at least it'd give us a new choice.

Or,

2. Push it once to toggle between 8-dot and contracted mode, the way it 
works now. Push it twice quickly to go from 8-dot to 6-dot computer braille 
or vice versa. Since 6-dot computer braille is probably the thing most 
people would want least often, giving it two key presses wouldn't be that 
much of a pain, and it wouldn't be in the way when switching into and out of 
contracted braille.

Possible? Useful?

Have fun,

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Lee Maschmeyer
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA