On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote: > Dave, > Comments are a good idea. However, any character used as a comment indicator > will present problems, since it could be used in some language. Perhaps the > # could indicate a comment only if it is the very first character in a line > or of it follows the number, separated from it by a space or tab. If a > source string has # as its first character it can be indented a space or > two. That would mean that leading spaces on a line would be ignored. I'd suggest supporting a dot pattern representation directly instead of relying on ascii correspondance which may well be different from one braille table to another, especially for symbols outside of the standard alphabet. Nicolas