[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: unicode braille output when no dis defined
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:33:12 -0500
Hi Mesar,
Why can't you just use the ucBrl mode bit? It must be used together with
dotsIO , for example, dotsIO|ucBrl
Unicode by default would change the way liblouis operates and would
break many things.
John
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:17:13AM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> Hi John, all,
>
> I think we have discussed this issue before, but I cant seem to locate the
> previous thread.
>
> We want liblouis to output unicode braille by default where no dis file has
> been defined.
>
> for example put these 4 lines in a test.cti:
> --cut--
> letter a 1
> letter n 1345
> letter t 2345
> letter h 125
> --cut--
>
> currently if we do:
> echo "hat" | ../tools/lou_translate -f test.cti
> we get "hat" printed to the terminal.
> We want the unicode braille for 125 1 2345 i.e. "⠓⠁⠞" to be printed instead
>
> because then we can see that the translation really has happend.
>
> for legacy devices that do not accept unicode they can simply use a dis table
> as their first
> table in the list of tables just before printing.
>
> motivation for this change:
> 1. a clearer seperation between language table, and hardware translation.
> if I have a document I can just process it to produce unicode braille, then
> if the document
> needs to be printed on various printers, i just have to preload the the dis
> file for that
> manufacturer.
> we would have index.dis, tiger.dis brf.dis etc.
> 2. it is more understandable for a braille transcriber to see what has
> happend when they
> do the translation in the terminal or in a gui.
> They can see exactly what dots will be printed, no need to double translate
> in their head "h"
> gives "125", "a" gives "1" etc.
> This will reduce the transcribers mental load and cut the number of errors.
> 3. will solve a bug for when users switch between using their
> screenreader+liblouis and
> on the other hand brltty directly.
> (for an example of this bug see:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651264)
>
> I have discussed this change with Bert and they already do this in Odt2brl
>
> Thanks,
> Mesar
> 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
Other related posts:
