[BRLTTY] German users: no-break space and dot 7?

Alex ARNAUD aarnaud at hypra.fr
Sat Dec 5 02:30:11 EST 2020


In LibreOffice, by default, no-break space have a specific colour effect.

Le 04/12/2020 à 23:35, Lars Bjørndal a écrit :
> Hi, Mario!
>
> I'm curious ablut your request. In Norway the braille authority group is discussing if we should define no-breaking space to zero dots. When you read a web page, for instance, a sighted person does not distinguish between space and no-breaking space. Why would a braille reader like to distinguish between these characters?
>
> The Norwegian braille table for BRLTTY, no-generic.ttb, has defined no-breaking space as an alias for space.
>
> I'd appreciate if you could explain why you want to define the character to a representation other than zero dots.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lars
>
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 05:46:24PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> To all german users: I just noticed there is no mapping in de.ttb which
>> maps to a sole dot 7.  Any objections to mapping non-breaking spaces to
>> dot 7?
>>
>> -- 
>> CYa,
>>    ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕
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