[BRLTTY] Can BRLTTY indicaste indentation?

Adrian van Bloois adrian at pa0rda.nl
Fri Aug 21 11:31:39 EDT 2020


On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:00:10AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Consider the following deeply indented Python statement.
> 					wordType = adverb
> There are five tabs. I would like BRLTTY to replace them with simicolons
> ;;;;;wordType = adverb					
You have an editor for that!!! :-)

> This feature would have to be optional and easy to turn on and off. People sometimes use spaces to indicate indentation or even both tabs and spaces. I would like spaces replaced with commas. The feature should work only at the beginnings of lines. I've soon code with soo many tabs that the Braille display is blank. 
> That makes coding really frustrating.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 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?
> > 
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