[brailleblaster] Re: Wrapping
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:16:22 -0500
Susan,
Thanks for pointing this out. Word wrapping should be different for the
two views. In the Daisy view can be standard. In the braille biew, if a
line exceeds the number of cells per line, a newline should be inserted.
I don't think it would be hard to show print and braille interlined in
one of the views. Some users might prefer that. Personally, I think the
side-by-side views are much neater and perhaps more readable.
John
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 12:23:20PM -0600, Susan Jolly wrote:
> The discussion of wrapping text is getting me confused.
>
> My understanding of wrapping is that when wrapping is on, the display will
> temporarily break long lines so they fit within the horizontal constraints
> of the display. Here the definition of "line" is the text between two
> newline symbols. Wrapping is generally done for paragraphs which don't have
> embedded newline symbols.
>
> In a standard formatted braille file there is a newline symbol at the end of
> every physical line which is typically 40 or less characters. So if you wrap
> the braille display because the window isn't wide enough, you will get long
> lines alternated with short ones which is hard to read.
>
> I believe that what Braille2000 does to display interlined print is to
> compute the maximum font size for each line of print such that that line
> does not extend past the corresponding braille. Alternatively you can just
> use the same small font size for each line of print.
>
> This might be a good place to point out that it is easy to change the
> Content of a StyledText widget. So you could have a button that toggles
> the content of one of the widgets between interlined print and braille
> (which you might want to make noneditable) and its standard content.
>
> SusanJ
>
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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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