On Thu, 17 May 2012, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2012/05/17 at 02:12 -0400]
> 
> >Well, whitespaces should always be announced, whether it is with silence 
> >(the behavior that BRLTTY had implemented for many years already) or 
> >with explicit denomination.  
> >
> >So either inserted characters are spoken, or they're not. Either new 
> >lines are spoken, or they're not.  And so on. This includes all 
> >characters, including spaces or empty lines.
> 
> That indeed sounds like a good general statement, but is it always true? 
> Let's 
> say, for example, that both inserted characters and new lines are to be 
> spoken. 
> Isn't it possible that a user might want inserted spaces to be silent but 
> blank 
> new lines to be spoken?

Yes, and that's what I suggested initially.

But my motivation for implementing it globally was actually to restore 
the previous BRLTTY behavior which is to play silence in both cases.


Nicolas
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