[BRLTTY] Can BRLTTY indicaste indentation?

John J. Boyer john.boyer at abilitiessoft.org
Fri Aug 21 10:06:47 EDT 2020


My display is 40 cells. Five tabs of eight spaces will make it blank.
Speech screenreaders indicate indentation. Why not Braille?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:54:53AM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:35:30AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> > [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on 2020/08/21 at 05:27 -0500]
> > 
> > >it is really the business of the screenreader. So I am wondering if BRLTY has
> > >a way of indicating indentation.
> > 
> > Can you give an example of what you mean?
> I admit I am curious as well as I do Python all the time and have no
> issue with indentation. Perhaps he means replace a tab with a single
> character to minimise scrolling?
> S.M.
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