[BRLTTY] Six-dot braille without contractions

[Hermann]

On 01.12.2008 at 21:19:28 Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
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>>If German really uses 8-dot braille for contractions then that'll have to be 
>>taken into account. All I know is that English doesn't.
>
> It doesn't, unless we look at using dot 7 for single letter capitalization to 
> save on space without losing the indicator. In German, as you may know, every 
> single noun starts with a capital letter.
>
Yes, and it would be easier to read if that capital letter simply adds
dot 7 to indicate that it has to be spelled with capital letters. That
is, what Jaws does. It is, for example, different to NVDA, that uses
liblouis for displaying braille, and in this case braille looks like in
Brltty now.
The 8-dot-braille in Jaws only appears when you place the cursor on that
word, all the other words are shown in 6-dot-style with grade two.
And to make things even more complicated: We use 3 braille tables in
Germany. Computer-braille or grade0 which is the 8-dot-style in Brltty,
grade1 (de-vollschrift.ctb) which means 6-dot-style but without
contraction, except some letters that are special German vowels (ei, eu,
äu, which in fact means aeu, ie etc. And we have one letter for "sch"
which we pronounce as the English "sh".
The third table is grade2. So my suggestion is to use grade0 as the
basic table and grade2 with the exception of 8-dot-style when placing the
cursor on it. Perhaps we can take away grade1.
Mario, what do you think of this?
Sorry for teaching maybe unwanted lessons in German, but that's how
things are.
Hermann