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Re: [orca-list] GUI Redesign or clearup and modernization

Hello,
NVDA on Windows also uses liblouis for the braille translation and I was under an impression it is also used for word wrapping support. A quick skim through its source code reveals that they simply wrap at nearest space possible. 
http://community.nvda-project.org/browser/source/braille.py#L1074
Unfortunatelly I have no braille device and I am afraid I can't handle this my-self, however borrowing that idea from NVDA appears to be a doable idea if people like it better than what orca can do at the moment. 

Greetings

Peter

On 02.09.2015 at 19:22 Joanmarie Diggs wrote:

Hi Devin, all.

In theory, word wrap is supposed to be handled via liblouis. Liblouis
doesn't handle it. Given this discussion, I'll stop what I'm working on
and see if I can handle it in Orca.

Hope this helps and apologies for the inconvenience your are experiencing.
--joanie

On 09/02/2015 01:19 PM, Devin Prater wrote:

I have to say this about braille support though. The inclusion of tables like Esperanto and Latin was amazing 
and made my mouth water. But the braille doesn't word wrap, making reading anything besides little windows 
and controls pretty frustrating.

Sent from my iPhone


On Sep 2, 2015, at 11:07 AM, kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:

hi
You sound like a good user to ask. How is the braille support? i'm assuming it's not terrible, else you'd have joined 
in with the "windows is better" crowd
Thanks
Kendell clark



On 9/2/2015 11:03 AM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
The rant below is needless and off-target.  My wife and I are not "tntitlement babies," having bought our own 
BrailleNote in the old days when I had a decent job and having bought a used PACMate last year because the BrailleNote 
finally crashed like an airplane. Recently, we borrowed two Focus 40s from a technology lending program, partly so I 
could play with one on my Linux machine and partly to see if it would help my wife with a paying job she's doing for a 
small publisher.  If we get lucky, family help might enable up to buy the Braille2Go from National Braille Press, but 
it's nothing we claim an entitlement to.

In short, we are heavy-duty Braille users.  Sometimes, there's just nothing like it.  We are not simply 
guzzling at the government fauct, however.  I'd use Braille a lot more if I could afford a display to use it 
on, and would certainly bring attention to problems--and would try to fix those I could.

I close by noting that, whatever legitimate frustration there may be with some posts, and I doubt there's 
much), I was surprised by the broad swipe of the comments below, especially from one of the most helpful 
people I know.

Al


On 09/02/2015 11:08 AM, Kyle wrote:
Sorry for the upcoming rant, but some of this nonsense I'm seeing drove
me to it.

I can still build an 8-core x86_64 computer for less money than it
currently costs to purchase even the least expensive open source
braille displays, which are still costly prototypes. Once braille
becomes as affordable as say for instance a computer monitor, then
maybe more people will have the means to code for them, and braille
won't be just for lucky blind government entitlement babies anymore.
Until then, braille is always going to be too expensive to get enough
people working on to improve it. Sorry, that's just the way it is. And
no, I didn't use braille back in the days when I had access to Windows
either, because I'm not a blind government baby who expected all the
expensive stuff to be handed to me like I'm entitled to it or
something, which is also why I use Linux now and help where I can to
raise awareness and to contribute where I can to its development and
wider usage by *all* people, not just entitlement blinks. No, Linux
isn't "catching up" as you Microsoft and Apple lovers so eloquently put
it. It's here, and it's far ahead of anything else you could be using.
So get used to it.
Sent from my Cancerian beast
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