[BRLTTY] General clarification on Writiing DOTs to device based on the string length

[Siju Samuel]

Thanks you very much


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Samuel Thibault <
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Siju Samuel, le Wed 18 Dec 2013 13:37:37 -0600, a écrit :
> > So do
> > there have any api to know what position  of a string corresponds to the
> > translated dot position of a string and send the input to writeApi
> accordingly?
>
> No. Such thing would be complex and bring several client-server
> exchanges.
>
> >  How this is generally done ( to use brailapi)?
>
> The recommended way is to render dots locally with e.g. liblouis, and
> send dots thanks to brlapi_writeDots.
>
> This is similar to X11 now mostly transferring pixmaps between clients
> and server, not drawing requests.
>
> Samuel
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