[BRLTTY] Braille representation of some Unicode characters
Mario Lang
mlang at blind.guru
Mon Apr 9 07:55:32 EDT 2018
Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org> writes:
> I am wondering whether some Unicode characters have a braille
> representation that takes more than one cell in our braille tables.
> There is for instance the case of the horizontal ellipsis (I don't know
> its codepoint anddon't know how to easily find it, sorry). For such a
> character, I'd like to have a representationlike ... (so three braille
> cells), but then it will mean that one screen line of 80 won't fit with
> my 40 braille display as wellas when each character on the screen
> occupies exactly one braille cell.
ttb files always map 1-to-1. If you want to define a mapping
for a character which needs more braille celss, you have to use
contracted braille. This this is a feature in my option.
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CYa,
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