[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Emphasis: particularly for John Brugge

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:10:53 -0500

Trying to fix emphasis after the last word only broke things that were 
already working. The present emphasis algorithm was devised before I 
know much about braille codes besides what is used in the U.ls. It 
appears inadequate. I am devising a scripting language to handle the 
problem more effectively and understandably.

John

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:44:06PM +0100, Paul Wood wrote:
> Does this affect the Italic After problem?
> Paul
> 
> On 1 August 2011 14:15, John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Emphasis and contractions in whole words now work properly. There are
> > still problems with emphasis inside words, that is, where only part of a
> > word is emphasized. This may not concern Bookshare. To get the fixes you
> > will have to go to the repositories for liblouis and liblouisutdml
> >
> > To fix the problems with liblouis I had to get lou_translateString.c and
> > lou_backTranslateString.c from revision 405 in the repository. They do
> > not use the consolidated code in transcommon.ci, but it is still in the
> > repository. versions of lou-TranslateString.c and
> > lou_backTranslateString.c which do use this code for ease of maintenance
> > can be retrieved from other revisions. There is a possibility that going
> > back to 405 may revive some bugs.
> >
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> > Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> > http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> > Madison, Wisconsin USA
> > Developing software for people with disabilities
> >
> > For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >

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Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com

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