[BRLTTY] Six-dot braille without contractions

[Hermann]

On 01.12.2008 21:08, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Hermann on 2008/12/01 at 20:55 +0100]
>
>> And there's a third posibility: One can use grade2 conbined with
>> 8-dot-braille, for example see Jaws:
>> When grade2 is selected, it shows characters in 6-dot-style, while the
>> word under the cursor is shown in 8-dot-computer-braile.
>
> Yes, we could do that. Such a feature is probably more along the lines of a
> preferences menu item, though, for example:
>
>     Current Word: contracted, uncontracted, computer braille
>
>> And BTW. we can solve the problem brought up by Mario: How to deal with
>> the capitalisazion sign.
>
> That becomes another potential three-value selector, for example:
>
>     Capitalization: prefix character, overlayed dot, none
>
>> Disadvantage: We would have to completely redesign our braille tables.
>
> where do you see a need for any table redesign? I think it's simply a matter of
> which table we use when.
>
I thought of this because we mix grade2 and 8-dot-style.

> Do we want both selectors? For each, do we really want all three values?
>
I think we can use 6-dot and 8-dot on the one hand and grad1 and grade2 
on the other.
Hermann