[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Italic in British Braille
- From: Paul Wood <paulw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:14:52 +0100
John,
Glad you are working on the Windows builds as we will be using them also and
the possibility of using the libraries direct within Visual Basic gives us
more potential for integration with Microsoft Word which we use, for
example. As I've identified the settings and what does what, I can now
proceed with Testing, but would be grateful to have this fixed so we can
start using Bert's odt2braille for Production jobs etc.
Regards
Paul
On 18 May 2011 22:25, John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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