[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Grouping tables according to language and Braille code
- From: "Vic Beckley" <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:06:41 -0400
Mesar,
It sounds like a fantastic idea if it can be made to work without a lot of
headaches. The more we can develop self-sustaining features like this, the
less manual work has to go into keeping the tables up to date.
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Grouping tables according to language
and Braille code
Hi John,
What do you think about the following alteration:
1. we add new opcodes, tableName and tableInfo
tableName en-gb-g2 # probably the same as the actual filename of the table.
tableInfo English UK grade 2
These should be defined as the first non-comment lines of any table, so that
they dont get overridden.
2. A new function is added to liblouis: listTables(localizationLang)
The function iterates over the defined table paths, extracting the
information and builds up a list of pares.
tableName, localizedTableInfo
The localizedTableInfo is obtained using a call to gettext, which if no
localization was found for the given string simply returns the english
default.
If I am not too mistaken, this should address the requirements for Blaster,
NVDA and Orca.
The particular package can restrict the data as it wishes depending on
comboboxes etc.
This solution also has the advantage that minimal maintenence is required.
Thoughts?
-- Mesar
On Mon 23/07/12,13:53, John J. Boyer wrote:
> For BrailleBlaster we are planing to give users a choice first of
> supported languages and then of the Braille codes for each language.
> Something like this has already been discussed on this list. Perhaps
> there could be a file in the tables directory with two columns, the
> first for a human-readable table name and the second for the actual name
> of the table file. This file could be divided into sectgions acording to
> language. Of course this would also be useful for NVDA and Orca. The big
> question is who is going to maintain it.
>
> John
>
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> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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> Madison, Wisconsin USA
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>
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