[brailleblaster] Re: Boxlines

  • From: Brandon Roller <brandon.r.roller@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:28:20 -0400

The braille preview uses formatFor brr.  The reason being we want preview
what output that will be rendered if we saved to a brf file.


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Michael Whapples <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Just to make sure I understand what needs fixing, does the Braille
> preview come from a translation using textDevice or brf as output format?
>
> I believe the brf output is done by generating UTD first and then creating
> the brf from that, where as the textDevice translation goes straight to the
> textDevice output and is using different functions in liblouisutdml.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 29/07/2014 19:11, Brandon Roller wrote:
>
> This appears to be a bug in liblouisutdml when rendering a brf file.
>  Those additional blank lines are where the top and bottom boxlines should
> be.  So in your example, you would have a top boxline which by default is,
> I think, cell 2-3-5-6 then your blank line before, then your blank line
> after, then the bottom boxline which is cell 1-2-4-5.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>  Brandon,
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>> How should the boxline show up in the Braille preview? I added them to a
>> couple paragraphs and all I see is a couple more blank lines before and
>> after the paragraphs. The paragraphs were a custom style I have created
>> with 1 line before and after.
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>> Best regards from Ohio,
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>> Vic
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