[BRLTTY] Contraction error and no patch: GHz
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Wed Jul 28 22:25:41 EDT 2010
[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2010/07/28 at 21:03 -0400]
>GHz is a unique word. It's to be brailled like this (read in 8-dot
>computer braille):
>
>,g,hz
>
>I can't hit on a table entry to cause this though. No matter what I
>put in the table brltty brailles it (8-dot computer braille again):
>
>,,<,'z
>
>A friend of mine hit on what seems proper logic: Since G is a metric
>abbreviation in its own right, it can't be included with Hz, a
>separate abbreviation.
Do you think it's worth a lot of trouble to try to generalize this in some
special way, or might it be better to simply use "word GHz ="?
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