[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Italic in British Braille
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 08:41:51 -0500
Paul,
Things are a bit slow with the Windows ports and the BrailleBlaster GUI,
so I'll see if I can get you into production. To prevent possible
misunderstandings, please give me the name of the table you are using.
I had to approve this message from you. Messages that you send from your
gmail address get through, however.
Thanks,
John
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:14:52PM +0100, Paul Wood wrote:
> 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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