[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: LibLouis table for six-dot Esperanto

  • From: OlegShevkun <oleg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Aaron Cannon <cannona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:50:35 +0400

Hello all,

Unfortunately, at least to my knowledge, such document does not exist. As far back as 1931, there was a publication outlining the standard of that time, and it was slavishly reprinted in 1989. All of these exist in braille only, and I have not found an electronic version.

As for punctuation, you can safely follow the English standards, with the exception of the question mark, which should be dots 26. And, of course, capitalization is dots 46.

Oleg






On 7/17/2012 6:56 AM, Aaron Cannon wrote:
Hi.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to track down an official defining
document for Esperanto Braille.  I haven't even been able to discover
whether or not such a document even exists.

I am CCing another individual who might be able to shed more light on
the situation.

Thanks, and sorry I can't be more help.

Aaron

On 7/16/12, Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Aaron,

Did you get a chanse to see the below email?

Thanks
-- Mesar
On Tue 10/07/12,10:26, Mesar Hameed wrote:
Hi Aaron,

Do you have full access to the formal braille standard for esperanto?
Could we possibly get a copy?

There are several punctuation/math symbols that should be defined.
# | \ / [ ] { } @ ~ < > =

Would you be able to find them for us please?

Many Thanks,
Mesar
On Mon 09/07/12,09:13, Aaron Cannon wrote:
Perfect.

Thank you!

Aaron

On 7/9/12, Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

On Mon 09/07/12,08:36, Aaron Cannon wrote:
The problem with the line:
include latinLetterDef6Dots.uti
is that the w in Esperanto braille is not 2456.  Actually, there is
no
W in the Esperanto alphabet, but it still has a representation in
Braille because it can appear in "foreign words".

2456 is the j with circumflex.  W is 23456.  If there is a way to
override a symbol from an included table, then you can use the
latinLetterDef6Dots.uti file, as the w is the only one that is
wrong.
Sorry for the mistake, now fixed in svn 721.

I am fairly certain that this table should replace the 8-dot table,
as
I know of no 8-dot Braille code.  To the best of my knowledge, the
six-dot Esperanto Braille code is the only one that has ever been
defined and used.
Ok, have also renamed it eo-g1.ctb to be closer with the naming schema
we
are currently using, hope this is ok.

Thanks,
Mesar



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