[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Backtranslation problem

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:24:19 -0600

Lars,

Is this a new problem with this version of liblouis or is it something 
you just noticed? Does it occur with other letters than i? One 
possibility is that the letter i is not defined correctly in the 
character-definition table. I'll do some checking myself.

Thanks,
John

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:57:46AM +0100, Lars Bj�rndal wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> John, I think this is food for you.
> 
> I have a really strange issue regarding backtranslation, that I cannot
> solve by myself.
> 
> I'm using liblouis-1.4.0, and liblouisxml-1.7.0 at the moment. One
> table that can be used to reproduce this, is No-No-g2.ctb.
> 
> If I backtranslate the word "ei", which is a Norwegian word by itself,
> it's backtranslated into "elleri", e.g. the letter "e" is
> backtranslated into "eller" as it should have been if the "e" was
> alone, and the letter "i" is added. The word "eller" is defined as
> word in the table, not begword. If I try to backtranslate "ef", this
> does not happen.
> 
> The same happens with "bli". "bl" is backtranslated into "blant", and
> the "i" is added. "blant" is defined as word too.
> 
> I've read the tables up and down, but I cannot understand why this
> should happen. Hope you can help me!
> 
> Lars
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com

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