[liblouis-liblouisxml] [Patch] Emphasis marks in norwegian braille

  • From: Knut Arne Bjørndal <bob+liblouis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:16:26 +0100

Hi

Emphasis marks in the norwegian braille table does not seem to work, I only get 
the end mark.

I changed the table from the deprecated beg/end codes to 
firstword,firstletter,lastwordafter,lastletter. It seems to work better, but 
maybe not perfect.

Using lou_allround with no-no-generic.dis,no-no-g0.utb and setting emphasis 
0110 and running with test as input I get t;es<t< instead of the expected t;es<t

I have also changed underline to be the same braille patterns as italic and 
bold, as the standard seem to be to only use one general emphasis mark for most 
texts.

As far as I know the current rules are these from 2004 (my translation):
1) General emphasis is done with dots 23 before and 56 after the part to be 
emphasised. This should be used for parts of words, whole words and multiple 
words.
2) If multiple types of emphasis is needed for the same text the following can 
be used:
points 456 before and after (suitable for underlining)
points 6-3 before and after (suitable for graphic emphasis)
points 5-2 before and after (suitable for letterspaced text)
None of these should be used for emphasising parts of words. The use of 
different emphasis marks must be explained in «Notes on the braille edition» 
(or in a foreword or legend if the text is made only for braille).
3) The underline character (for example for web addresses) is unchanged, points 
456.

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Knut Arne Bjørndal
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