[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: UEB: an "ideal" en-ueb-g1 table
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:19:26 -0600
Putting Braille indicators after the last word requires changes in the
code of liblouis. I am working on that. For now, let's complete the
contractions and symbols.
John
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:47:07PM +0800, Greg Kearney wrote:
> Joseph this is working well. There is however one issue UEB has the notion of
> an indicator, and closing indicators for things like strings of upper case
> letters, italic, bold and so on.
>
> Consider the following examples which show this for upper case
>
> A single letter T for example is done with the following dot sequence 6-2345
> A one or two words GREG KEARNEY is done with a the word indicators in front
> of each world 6-6-1245-1235-15-1245
> A passage is three or more words and is indicated with 6-6-6 and is
> terminated with 6-3
>
> As it stands right now when I enter the string THIS IS A TEST it get ,,?
> ,,is ,a ,,te/ which is not correct it should be ,,,? is a te/,'
>
> You can get a list of all of this indicators at
> http://www.cucat.org/ueb/chart.php or http://www.cucat.org/ueb/
>
> Anyone wanting to test the new tables can do so here:
> http://www.cbtbc.org/louis/index.php
>
> Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
> Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
> PO Box 101, Victoria Park WA 6979 | 61 Kitchener Ave, Victoria Park WA 6100
> Tel: 08 9311 8246 | Fax: 08 9361 8696 | www.guidedogswa.com.au
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> Email: greg.kearney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
>
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> includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive
> and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of
> frontiers.
> Article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
>
> On 20/11/2012, at 3:02 PM, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> > Attached is the "ideal" en-ueb-g1 table. There might be some encoding
> > and char errors in there.
> > For Christian: If you want to add the Unicode chars you found, please
> > do add them. Towards the middle of the table, I wrote:
> > #todo
> > With categories of Unicode chars to work on for the next UEB task -
> > namely Greek and Latin letters, basic mathematical symbols,
> > transcribers notes, shapes and misc ones (the biggest weakness of the
> > current UEBC table is lack of correct dot patterns or wrong patterns
> > for these chars).
> > Thanks.
> > //JL
> > <en-ueb-g1.ctb>
>
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
--
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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