[brailleblaster] Re: More testing needed

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:40:23 -0500

Vic,

We are dealing eith multiple sources of errors. What is needed is to 
sort them out. You might try formatFor textDevice and see what happens.

John

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:39:55PM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> John,
> 
> I didn't use the plug-in to create this document. I pasted the text directly
> into BB, formatted it and saved it as XML. Is there a problem with the XML
> itself? Why would it be correct when I use the liblouisutdml.dll from 8/27?
> 
> 
> Best regards from Ohio,
> 
> Vic
> 
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> Subject: [brailleblaster] More testing needed
> 
> I am attaching a public-domain file from Bookshare for use in testing. 
> Vic's problems with missing words may be due to the Daisy plugin for MSWord.
> The Bookshare file is of better quality. When I run it through liblouisutdml
> with forrmatFor brf and nimas.cfg the resulting file has the correct line
> length and no extra spaces before page numbers. It does not have the correct
> number of line per page, but this is due to a problem elsewhere and would
> appear with formatFor utd as well. It is due to difficulties in determining
> the last line, because utd is graphical and so is brf, since it is derived
> from utd. In any case, the correct number of lines can be obtained by using
> formatFor textDevice. This is the default.
> 
> Please use the attached file for more testing. 
> 
> If anyone wants to investigate the problem of the incorrect number of lines
> per page look at the function checkPageStatus in the transcriber.c module.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
>  
> --
> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
> 
> 

-- 
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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