[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Table of human readable tables.

  • From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 15:07:01 +0200

2014-06-04 14:55 GMT+02:00 Michael Whapples <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I personally would like special comment lines in the files to provide
> metadata for the table. However one thing by doing that you would need to
> be careful about is to have it that a table could define itself as support
> only (IE. it is there for including in other tables, should never be
> directly used).
>
> I would prefer the self contained table with metadata as it would mean the
> list is dynamically created by software and thus there is no table list to
> get out of sync with the files available. Should the user just add a file
> the software hopefully would just pick this up and immediately have the
> information.
>
>
Absolutely agree about the dynamic aspect. I think also in previous
discussions it has come out as the most popular approach.


> May be liblouis could even provide some functions to help construct these
> lists.
>
>

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