[BRLTTY] [PATCH] add a verbose space speech setting

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 17 May 2012, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2012/05/17 at 02:12 -0400]
> 
> >Well, whitespaces should always be announced, whether it is with silence 
> >(the behavior that BRLTTY had implemented for many years already) or 
> >with explicit denomination.  
> >
> >So either inserted characters are spoken, or they're not. Either new 
> >lines are spoken, or they're not.  And so on. This includes all 
> >characters, including spaces or empty lines.
> 
> That indeed sounds like a good general statement, but is it always true? Let's 
> say, for example, that both inserted characters and new lines are to be spoken. 
> Isn't it possible that a user might want inserted spaces to be silent but blank 
> new lines to be spoken?

Yes, and that's what I suggested initially.

But my motivation for implementing it globally was actually to restore 
the previous BRLTTY behavior which is to play silence in both cases.


Nicolas