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- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:53:27 -0600
The message to which I reply in this one was sent both to me and to the
list. Please do not do that. It is very confusing. Please keep all
discusion on the list.
Moderator
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Subject: Re: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Is liblouis capable of preparing the
Norwegian bible for embossing?
From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:46:47 -0600
To: Paul Wood <paulw.torchtrust@xxxxxxxxx>
These are good things to know. I am wondering how liblouisutdml could be
given such a capability. If a particular style were defined for Bible
verses it would be a simple matter to keep track of the first and last
on a page. The tag for that style would also have to have an attribute
giving the book, chapter and verse. This would also be useful in
translating doctionaries. It's another thing to be implemented to make
the liblouis suite and BrailleBlaster the equal of any transcription
package which can be bought.
Finally, I would have much preferred if this discussion had been on the
liblouis-liblouisxml list. Others might have ideas. Many would find it
interesting and would learn from it.
John
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:58:48PM +0000, Paul Wood wrote:
> Lars,
> We are also faced with this problem and I don't think that liblouis's
> formatter is capable, as John also says. I thought I had was to use
> Word or similar to automate the footer references from the verse and
> chapter numbers. I have done this for some Large Print Bible we did a
> couple of years ago. By using a fixed width font and creating a page
> the right size for your braille cells, this will format the main text.
> If you are using uncontracted braille then a series of search and
> replaces should create the translation, but before that the verse
> numbers, Chapter names & numbers need to be styled with a character
> style, this can be automated from the source file markup. Then using
> Word's footers and the first and last style references the correct
> verse references can be generated i.e. John 3:1-14 etc. It wasn't
> perfect as I had to correct when a change in chapter occured at the
> start of a page, but it saved a lot of work and I can let you have the
> footer code for Word. If it's contracted braille then it will get
> complicated to style the numbers etc. I presume you are not trying to
> also format the UBS way with verse numbers on a left hand column, as
> this is definately beyond anything I have seen that hasn't been
> specifically written for Bible formatting. We do have a transcriber
> who has written code in Fortran to do this from the UBS marked up
> file, but I don't know that programming language and when I looked at
> it it wasn't easy to follow. He might be willing to do your job,
> although he is quite elderly now.
> Please let me know how you get on, as I'd also like to crack this one as well!
>
> Regards
> Paul
>
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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