[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: revised UEB table: first part done
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:24:19 +0800
For information on the various indicators and other UEB usage please see
www.cbtbc.org/ueb/
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On 16/11/2012, at 10:28 PM, "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for the info. How do the GB tables do in back-translation? That
> is a big weakness of the current UEB tables.
>
> What is the problem with getting a build of liblouisutdml in Windows?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:45:53AM +0000, Paul Wood wrote:
>> John,
>> First I appreciate that the US tables are undoubtedly the best, but are
>> they the best way forward for UEB?
>> Do we have access to a list of differences from BANA to UEB?
>> Maybe the Australians have one?
>> The reason I ask is the gb or SEB tables might not be 100% but are
>> pretty close, we have work at the moment checking this on a 'normal'
>> book, but experience so far is very good, only picking up foreign words
>> and problems with apostrophes and quotes etc.
>> But we do have a good list of differences between the codes, so with a
>> table expert, which I'm not! it should be quite easy to modify the SEB
>> (gb) tables to UEB.
>> I still haven't got a working latest liblouisudtml in windows, which has
>> been the delay for us.
>> I'm going down the DAISY pipeline2 route and have latest betas to test
>> this week, which I hope to do today or Monday.
>> If you can access a good list of differences for US to UEB, then of
>> course that would be the best approach!
>> more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille
>> HTH
>> Paul
>>
>> On 16/11/2012 10:14, John J. Boyer wrote:
>>> Hi Joseph,
>>>
>>> Great work. I think that trying to fix the UEB grade 1 table would be
>>> more work than modifying en-us-g1 for UEB. The en-us tables contain a
>>> lot of knowledge that the persons who made the UEB tables didn't have.
>>>
>>> From what I know of UEB largesign opcodes should be replaced with always
>>> joinword should be replaced with word or maybe deleted.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:03:01AM -0800, Joseph Lee wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> Attached is the revised UEB table based on en-us-g2.ctb. For consistency,
>>>> I
>>>> named the file as "en-ueb-g2.ctb".
>>>>
>>>> In the first part:
>>>>
>>>> . Modified the header to add my email address and wrote the fact
>>>> that this table is for testing purposes only. Also declared that this
>>>> table
>>>> is based on en-us-g2.ctb.
>>>>
>>>> . Removed "ally" and "ation" contractions, as they are not needed
>>>> anymore.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just curious: are there any problems with uebc-g1/g2.ctb? If the problems
>>>> are severe, then starting from scratch would be a good idea, with the
>>>> basis
>>>> for these tables coming from en-us-g1/g2.ctb.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> //JL
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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