[Blindmath] Braille display and newlines

[Susan Jolly]

It is true that at the end of each line there is a character or character 
sequence known as a newline.  However, the braille display should be acting 
like a printer does and interpreting the newline as a signal to go to the 
next line rather than it's taking up space.  My guess is that something else 
is causing the student's problem and that in the long run he'd be better off 
figuring out the real reason by calling the manufacturer or posting on an 
appropriate list.

I will point out that different computer systems use different 
representations for and end-of-line, some one character and some two 
characters.  It's possible that somehow the newlines have gotten changed in 
the brf file to be inconsistent with what the braille display expects. You 
can read more about the general problems with the different newlines in this 
Wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

Note that you can seem something similar in the print world.  For example, 
if you import a text file from a Unix system to a Windows system and open it 
in NotePad, the lines will be all run together because NotePad doesn't 
recognize the Unix newline.  However, Windows wordprocessors such as Word 
are smart enough to recognize the Unix newline.

SusanJ