[BRLTTY] Braille representation of some Unicode characters

Shérab Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Mon Apr 9 08:19:05 EDT 2018


Hi,

Mario Lang (2018/04/09 13:55 +0200):
> 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.

Okay thanks!

> This this is a feature in my option.

Missed a word here?
Shérab.


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