On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:59:08AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > I've been asked if we could make it easier for those who must use more than > one > contraction table to switch amongst them more easily. I'm asking, therefore, > for syntax suggestions. Here's one I've thought of: > > The -c option could accept a comma-delimited list of tables. If only one is > specified then the preferences menu selector would still work as it does now, > i.e. present all available tables. If, however, more than one table is > specified then the preferences menu selector would only present the specified > tables.
This is a reasonable design, but with one disadvantage: the user still has to navigate through the preferences menu to change the selected table. In the longer term, it would be valuable to have a tool that can be executed from the shell which connects to a running BRLTTY and changes specified configuration settings - including tables. On a related point, I notice that, when using BRLAPI applications, I can't switch to contracted braille as I can from the console. BRLAPI doesn't support changing braille tables, enabling or disabling contractions, etc. I think there should be some programmatic interface that can adjust these options, whether part of BRLAPI or separately from it. I recently tried Orca, and apart from other problems, the inability to switch into contracted braille is a major limitation: reading documents, Web pages for example, in uncontracted braille is not a solution that I could tolerate, because I find reading contracted braille to be much faster. _______________________________________________ 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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
