[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Table of human readable tables.
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:46:49 +0200
On 06/04/2014 02:44 AM, James Teh wrote:
This idea is not new. I and others have discussed this at length in the
past. There are a few problems off the top of my head:
1. Renaming files will break any existing users of liblouis.
2. The concepts associated with multiple codes (grades,
contracted/uncontracted, computer braille, etc.) aren't standard across
all codes. For example, in English, there is computer braille, grade 1
(uncontracted) and grade 2 (contracted). However, as I understand it,
some codes have more than two "grades" and grade 1 and 2 aren't
necessarily uncontracted and contracted, respectively. English has two
computer braille tables (6 dot and 8 dot). In order for such
standardisation to be useful, it needs to take all of this into account.
3. A table probably needs to specify exactly what languages and
countries it is used in. For example, UEB isn't truly unified because it
isn't used in all English speaking countries. I imagine there are some
country specific codes that are actually used in other countries.
Despite all the problems I like the list that Greg made and maybe it
could be the start to some pragmatic solution. One that might not cover
all corner cases but that could maybe serve the common needs (btw what
are these? Is this just about nice names in some GUI?)
Also if you look at older tables there seems to be some kind of
convention to start a table with the following line:
# liblouis: Generic Arabic Grade 1 table
I don't know if this convention should be resurrected and extended.
Thanks
Christian
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Christian Egli
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