[BRLTTY] Contracted braille and current word

[Lee Maschmeyer]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 06:51:39AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> I redid it according to Lee's most recent suggestions. Please give the
> latest development code a try. For what you describe above, set Text Style
> to Contracted Braille, and Expand Current Word to No.

Using 5593, the space following the current word doesn't show up. So
writing w h a t space, the space doesn't appear in braille until you
start the next word. This is a real pain. :-) Even multiple spaces
don't show up.

The choice for expanding the current word is invisible unless the text
style is set to contracted. This means I have to set it to contracted,
set expansion to no, then back up to set style to 8-dot. This is
clumsier than I'd wish and may make newbies think there's no way to
set expansion to off. On the other hand, if one doesn't want to change
the expansion, making that item always visible may seem clumsy. It's
just a personal preference (oh what a pun!) but my druthers would be
for the expansion choice to be visible always.

But as promised I LOVE the non-expanding current word!

-- 

Lee Maschmeyer

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear
to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
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