[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: The definition of the cursor being in a word
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 08:06:41 -0500
Michael,
A check on Windows shows that Jaws behaves as liblouis does. I would
want to hear ffrom the NVDA people before making a change.
John
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:07:51PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I use the Orca screen reader a lot and get involved a bit with some of
> the development stuff.
>
> Recently an oldish bug
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592421) has started to being
> attended to again and the solution seems to come down to the current
> behavior of liblouis doesn't quite do what we need.
>
> Could I make the following suggestion, either to alter the current
> behavior of the compbrlAtCursor mode or may be a new mode. In short we
> feel the definition of being in a word may need redefining, as even when
> the cursor is at the point just after a word, in an editor, any further
> insertions will edit the word.
>
> Let me use an example (I will resort to python here):
> Let say we have a string "this this this" (I will refer to it as
> variable s). At the moment liblouis treats the cursor to be in the first
> word when it is at index 0, 1, 2 or 3. We feel that index 4 should be
> treated also as being in the word (think of the iindex values you would
> use to define the slice to get the first word, s[0:4]).
>
> So following on my logic up to now, the cursor would be in the second
> word when at index values 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and in the last word when in
> positions 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
>
> I think of the index positions to refer to the joins of the characters
> instead of the characters themselves (eg. like the vertical bar style
> cursor some applications use), and also by considering what word will be
> altered if an insertion was made at the cursor position.
>
> Now I do realise this could impact on other users such as NVDA, so what
> is the feeling, should it be a new mode, should the existing mode alter?
> Has NVDA overcome the issue in another way?
>
> Michael Whapples
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