[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Back translation issues

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:04:00 -0500

The word opcode requires that the string be preceded and followed by 
either a space or punctuation character. That would explain mermaid but 
not men.

John

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:49:45PM +0000, Ken Perry wrote:
> Before I write this all up I am wondering if I am just crazy or if this is 
> really broken.  We have more defined as
> 
> Word more 134
> 
> That is fine but when you type stuff like 
> 
> Men or mark, mind, mermaid.
> 
> They all back translate with the word more It seems like the tables are right 
> but somehow it thinks it should back translate the m as if it is a word.  I 
> thought the word directive would only back translate if it was by itself is 
> that not the case?
> 
> ken
> 
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> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> On Wed 25/06/14,11:55, Ken Perry wrote:
> > I know before I took a break I had the en-us-g2 down to 800 words with
> > a  patch to the tables.  I never put it in because a few were not
> > happy with how I solved some of the apostrophe problems.  In truth
> > most of the apostrophe problems need to be fixed in code not tables.
> > I think there is a problem with the way the translator is splitting
> > words with apostrophe's but I will prove that before I make a long
> > table patch again.
> 
> Yes please, if you write up the problem in detail as you understand it, and 
> add it
> as a bug or a todo item on the website, its less likely to be overlooked/not 
> actioned.
> 
> thanks,
> Mesar
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