Michael, Again, thanks for finding the bugs! I am working on the lou_checkhyphens tool, so I'll soon be able tr track them down. John On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:54:55AM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote: > Hello, > After looking at the liblouisxml code a bit more and a bit of thinking I > believe I now have worked out the hyphenation problems I was having, it > seems to work both for mode=0 and mode=1 now. When I say working, it > gives what seems sensible although possibly at times I might personally > add another potential hyphenation point if I were doing it manually. My > work containing this working code has been committed to mercurial on > http://bitbucket.org/mwhapples/jlouis should anyone wish to look at it. > > Unfortunately I think I have found a few more bugs (I suppose this is > what comes of trying to create full bindings for a library). > > The first is that when I use mode=1 sometimes my application (Test.java) > was crashing with a load of glib errors and messages I didn't > understand. The other time I had come across these sorts of errors was > when I passed the wrong size arrays to liblouis in some of the other > function calls. So I guessed that may be it was something to do with the > difference in size of the translated text I passed in and the back > translated text lou_hyphenate would create to perform the hyphenation, > and sure enough when I set the array size of hyphens to twice the size > of inlen, all these errors have gone away. The docs say that hyphens > should be of size inlen. > > Secondly I previously reported getting values other than '0' and '1' in > hyphens, I believe these may be occurring around contractions and only > seems to happen for mode=1. Could this be due to the values in each byte > for the back translated hyphens being combined (eg. added together) when > translation is done back for the calling app? If this is the case may be > that's why sometimes I would personally find one more potential > hyphenation point than liblouis. > > Michael Whapples > For a description of the software and to download it go to > http://www.jjb-software.com -- 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