Re: [orca-list] Braille output for tables

[Rudolf Weeber <rudolf faveve uni-stuttgart de>]

Hi Will,
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 03:22:17PM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
Thanks for your reply!

> > I wondered, wether it would be useful, if cells in a table row in FF
> > would be devided by | rather then a space on the braille display. This
> > woudl make it possible to see, if a cell is empty.
>
> In an unrelated phone call the other day, we were discussing the notion
> of braille delimiters and allowing people to set them.  These delimiters
> would be for things where more than one object is being presented on the
> braille display -- a set of cells, a line of objects in a window (flat
> review), etc.  
>
> The notion was that there would be a customizable setting that would be
> used to determine the delimiter.  The default could be a space (as it is
> done today), but people could make it any string they want.  
That would really be a great feature. 

> > An other thing that I noticed is, that in some conditions the number of
> > spaces between cells is so large, that the next cell does not fit on the
> > braille display. This way, you can't even know, that there's an other
> > cell coming, unless you scroll the display to the right.
>
> I curious about your thoughts on what Orca should do here.  Should it
> compress spaces?  Should it always provide an end-of-line indicator to
> let you know there is (or is not) more to be viewed on the line?
> Something else?
Yes, I think, there is no point in displaying more then say three spaces
at a time - especially on a 40 cell diplay. More spaces should be
droped, except maybe in documents (OOo and gedit).

> > Where exactly in the code is the braille for tables in FF generated. I
> > tried to hack braillegenerator.py, but nothing happend.
>
> The braillegenerator.py is generally the right spot, but it can get more
> complicated.  The first complication is that scripts can feel free to
> subclass this, so you might need to look for a custom braillegenerator
> class in the script for the application you're working with.
Thanks alot. I'll have a look there.

Cheers, Rudolf