[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Persistent bugs in liblouis

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:06:34 -0500

Hi Mesar,

The emphasis bug is inconsistent. Sometimes the same word will be 
contracted, sometimes not. 

John

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:46:02PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Wed 23/05/12,15:16, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > One is an inconsidtency in handling of emphasis, where emphasized 
> > words are sometimes not contracted.
> 
> I believe it might be due to the same underlying bug i.e. the upper/lowercase 
> bug.
> Since it seems to treat the chars defined using upper/lower/letter as other 
> than letters of words, which would explain why contractions would fail.
> This is just a hunch.
> 
> > Is it possible to devise a test for the emphasis bug?
> 
> I remember Paul giving a testcase, will see if it can be recovered from the 
> mail archives and written up.
> 
> Mesar
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com

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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities

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