[BRLTTY] Improving the speech support of brltty

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Wed Apr 25 20:09:40 EDT 2012


On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Eric Scheibler on 2012/04/26 at 01:33 +0200]
> 
> >> What, exactly, should a word be? Should it be bounded by space, by
> >> non-letters, or what? If non-letters, which non-letters (hyphen,
> >> underscroe, etc) should still be considered part of a word?
> >
> >This should be the users choice. In my sample code I've defined a set
> >of delimiters, which can be changed easiely. Could be a menu option.
> 
> The easiest is for brltty's menu to have a set of choices - not a list of 
> characters. Which choices should be offered?

This probably should be listed in the configuration file somewhere.

The default could simply be any sequence of consecutive characters for 
which isalnum(), or even isgraph(), returns true.  The library knows how 
to interpret the meaning of a character according to the active locale.


Nicolas


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