[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Suggestion: The "correct" opcode to also work in back-translation
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 13:15:21 -0500
The correct opcode is part of the multipass opcode set. None of these
currently work in back-translation as far as I know. It would be good to
fix this.
John
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:32:32PM +0200, Bue Vester-Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest that the "correct" opcode should be changed to also
> work in back-translation as an extra pass after the actual back-translation.
> It was primarily meant to deal with scanos and the like, and currently only
> works in forward translation. However, it would also be very useful in
> back-translation, because the result of back-translation is sometimes
> ambiguous, simply because Braille was made to be read by humans, not
> machines.
>
> I don't have any good examples in English, but I am sure that others could
> find them. In Danish, for instance, all accented letters are written in the
> same way in 6 dots regardless of which accent is used. e acute and e grave
> look the same (5-15). Yes, what a system, but I don't have the power to
> change it, unfortunately. (smile) There must be similar if not so stupid
> examples in other languages.
>
> Alternatively, one could of course use "nofor always", but it is less safe,
> more messy, and harder to decipher. besides, in my case, I would have to
> include the entries twice, once for grade 1 and once for grade 2.
>
> I know this would create an incompatibility with tables that already use the
> "correct" opcode for scanos. They would have to write "noback correct" in
> stead.
>
> Best regards
> Bue Vester-andersen
>
>
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