[brailleblaster] Re: Latest News
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:51:02 -0500
Chris,
You have some good points. See my reply to the previous message for some
clarification.
Inserting blank lines to keep the two views synchronized will cause
extra complications and will probably generate bugs and user
dissatisfaction. It would be much better to enable the user to unlock
scrolling, then lock it again. This is actually simpler than dealing
with blank lines that are inserted just to keep the two views lined up.
As I stated, After translation the Daisy view will show the print
corresponding to each line of Braille. It will not show multiple braille
lines for a print line. Word wrap should be turned on. That is what
people expect. They also expect to be able to turn it off. We will have
to give them a means for doing so. This will not be hard.
John B.
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:26:16AM -0700, Chris von See wrote:
> Hi John G -
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> I didn't realize that word wrap would be turned off on translated
> content. I'm not a transcriber, but I would think that requiring a
> user to scroll horizontally in order to see the entire braille line
> would be very inconvenient - it's certainly a pain in a normal text
> editor. This situation may happen fairly often - even if the user has
> their braille font sized to a more "normal" size - since braille cells
> are so much wider than their text counterparts, and especially if the
> user is translating to grade 1 braille.
>
> If a user adds additional lines solely for the purpose of keeping
> views synchronized, what happens to those lines when a user embosses?
> How does the tool distinguish a blank line that was added for visual
> reasons from a blank line added because of braille formatting rules?
>
> I think there is at least one case where turning off synchronized
> scrolling (or allowing for some sort of re-synchronization) would be
> appropriate - to allow a transcriber to insert content (braille or
> text) that exceeds the visible size of the StyledText control. If I'm
> adding braille preliminary pages, for example, that content may or may
> not appear in the text but will almost certainly exceed the size of
> the braille control's visible area (p-pages can run anywhere from five
> to 100 braille pages depending on the book).
>
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 8:54 AM, John Gardner wrote:
>
> >Hi Chris. Below I put my interpretations of what the specs are or
> >maybe
> >what they are supposed to be.
> >John G
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris von
> >See
> >Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 8:38 AM
> >To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Latest News
> >
> >I have a couple of questions on scrolling two StyledText controls
> >together:
> >
> >If a line of text translates into more than one line of braille
> >JAG: This cannot happen. Word wrap is removed once the text window
> >shows
> >the translation, so the line may go off the page, but it doesn't
> >wrap to
> >another line. Unless a user is using a huge font, this should never
> >happen
> >anyhow.
> >
> >
> >or if
> >the user edits the braille to insert preliminary pages, transcriber's
> >notes or other additional content that doesn't appear in the text, how
> >will the scrolling controls behave?
> >JAG: If a user adds lines or otherwise changes the line formatting,
> >well I
> >presume that the two views will continue to scroll, but the lines
> >will be
> >mismatched below the point where this occurs. A user can put
> >additional
> >lines into both views to keep things synchronized, but she has to do
> >it.
> >
> >Is the scrolling line-by-line
> >based on the lines as seen by the StyledText control, will the
> >synchronization between the two controls be based on whatever content
> >appears at the top of each control,
> >JAG: Yes
> >
> >or will you use another strategy?
> >and will end users be able to "un-synchronize" the two StyledText
> >controls so that they can be scrolled independently?
> >JAG: No, the user cannot turn off synchronized scrolling. I see no
> >overwhelming reason that someone would want to do it. So KISS.
> >
> >
> >
>
--
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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