Hi, I also noticed backtranslations problems, but I only tested it from grade 2. So I need to investigate a bit to try to figure out the problems. ----- Original Message ----- From: John J. Boyer To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:01 AM Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Back-translation of French Jonathan, I want to give Michel Such a chance to reply before I comment extensively. You have a good point that there may be a problem with back-translation when the user-defined classes are used. The code of lou_backTranslateString.c may need some adjustment. Please describe your project a little further. Thanks, John On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:03:48AM +1300, Jonathan Sharp wrote: > Hi John, > > > > I'm evaluating the new French tables for possible use in a project that > needs both forward and back translation. I've found some problems with > back-translation and these are also present in the older French tables, so > are not a result of the recent changes. Here's an example: > > > > If I forward-translate "pierre" I get "pi(re", which is correct. Now if I > back-translate "pi(re", I get "pi(re" still - the left-parenthesis is not > translated back into "er". > > If the "er" occurs at the end of a word, such as "marcher", then it is > back-translated correctly. However in this case the "ar" contraction is not > back-translated while the "ch" contraction is back-translated correctly. > > > > Looking at the braille table there are two entries for "er", one for the > middle of a word: > > > > before con midword er 236 > > > > and one for the end of a word: > > > > endword er 236 > > > > It seems the endword entry is back-translating correctly while the midword > one is not. > > > > The "ar" entries are: > > > > before con always ar 4 > > endword ar 4 > > > > whereas "ch", which works only has one entry: > > > > always ch 12356 > > > > Trying some of the other entries, I wonder if the problem occurs when the > user-defined character classes, con, voy, etc. are used? > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > > -- My websites: GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com/godtouches Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Location: Madison, WI, USA For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com