[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Translating pre-hyphenated text
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:12:05 -0600
Hi Christian,
I'll have to think about this and get back to you. Your suggestion that
the cursor-position code might be extended to handle external
hyphenation has possibilities.
John
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:01:04PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to use liblouis to translate
> pre-hyphenated text and get contracted text containing hyphenation
> markers. In other words I would send a string containing soft hyphens to
> lou_translate and I'd expect to receive the contracted string containing
> the soft hyphens where they have not been obliterated by the
> contraction. I would imagine that the code that deals with cursor
> position has the functionality to find out if a position in the string
> is still there in the contracted string. Maybe the hyphenation marks
> could be converted into virtual dots so that we can use the existing
> translation tables. After the contraction we'd have to find out if a
> hyphenation point is still valid.
>
> My motivation is that hyphenation in liblouisxml/utdml currently works
> with back-translation which is very poor for German. So I'm hoping that
> there is a possibility to do the hyphenation in an external step before
> doing the braille translation.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
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