Le 02/08/2022 à 23:47, Dave Mielke a écrit : > [quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2022/08/02 at 23:23 +0200] > >> this follows an issue reported by Philippe Delavalade. >> >> He told me that he reads a line 40 characters at a time so if there are many >> columns he has to to fetch the next 40 cheracters several times to reach the >> end >> of the display before reading the next line, even if the line's length (in >> terms >> of displayed characters) is way shorter. > > Firstly, I don't think it's a good idea to impose such a constraint on all > users just because one has an apparent difficulty. > > Thanks for the explanation. I do understand it. He's saying that he needs to > navigate through all that blank space, one display length at a time, at the > end of a short line. > > This, of course, would be a problem for all of us so brltty has a solution > for it. There are two settings within its Navigation Options submenu that are > of interest, here: > > The first is Skip Blank Braille Windows. My guess is that it's set to No for > him. Setting it to Yes does what he wants, i.e. automatically skip over any > part of a line that's all spaces. > > The second is Skiip Which Blank Braille Windows. I think he might want to set > it to End of Line. It can also be set to All, which would then also skip > blank areas at the beginning or middle of a line. > >> Probably I don't really understand what happens or maybe what he means, but >> please bear with me: I never used a Braille device and would be unable to do >> that. > > Never a problem.
Thanks for the explanation and the solutions, Dave. @Philippe: thanks for telling me (us if you are registered to this list) if one or both of the options mentioned by Dave works for you. Best regards, Didier _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
