[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Italic in British Braille
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:25:03 -0500
Paul,
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. This is part of the general
emphasis problem, which also includes cases where the
end-of-capitalization sign follows the last word. I will get around to
these things eventually. Emphasis is the most complex issue in liblouis.
Right now I'm giving priority to porting liblouis and liblouisutdml to
Windows using the Microsoft compilers and to the BrailleBlaster GUI.
Using MinGW for the ports is unreliable and causes problems. It's been
tried more than once, with bad results.
John
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:33:21PM +0100, Paul Wood wrote:
> I believe Bert and Christian Waldvogel have raised this issue before but I
> can't find a solution!
>
> British Braille requires an italic end sign 46-3 AFTER more than three
> words, A double 46 sign before a string of three words or more i.e. 46-46
> and a single italic sign 46 before less than three words, but it seems
> liblouis can not achieve this.
> This is the closest I can get!
>
> # Italic
> #italsign 46 # if enabled less than 3 correct, more than 3 incorrect (last
> word has this sign before!)
> firstwordital 46-46 # if enabled more than 3 correct, less than 3 incorrect
> (is treated the same as more than three!)
> lastworditalafter 46-3
> lenitalphrase 4
> firstletterital 46-2
> lastletterital 46-3
>
> I believe as others seem to have done, that italsign and lastworditalbefore
> need to be seperate. How can this be achieved? What is the time frame?
>
> Thanks
> Paul
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