[brailleblaster] Re: Characters less than 0x20
- From: Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx>
- To: "brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:01:18 +0000
Yes, you are correct that some of the Bookshare books do use the <pre> element
but they shouldn't be. Most of the ones I've seen are programming books from
O'Riely. I don't know, maybe we need a "preformatted" action. pre is a special
case.
XML actually does not define any specific tag names or assign any default
semantic to a name.
It's fine to handle it however you like. I just don't want to break what we
already have.
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What is the equivalent of <p;re> in xml? I have seen it in books from
Bookshare. They also use <code> I ignore pre and give code the semantic action
code , which calls special functions for handling computer programs. That
reminds me of another problem. Some programs are so long that they cause a
buffer oferrun. There is a function that works for "formatFor textDevice" that
divides such long text node into pieces.
However, this is impractical in utd.
John
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 02:11:40PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> John.
>
> The <pre> tag is HTML. We shouldn't be finding it in dtbook or nimas. That
> doesn't mean no one will put them in there but they are not valid.
>
> There should be a better way to make this work than to do something global
> when it really only applies to one vocabulary, albeit a very ubiquitous one.
>
>
>
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>
> A while ago I added a bit of code to liblouisutdml to change all characters
> below 0x20 to space. However, this will mess up text within a <pre> tag,
> which is used for computer programs, among other things. I think the parser
> will flag any invalid characters, so I now want to remove this bit of code.
> It was inserted to salve a problem with text nodes containing a newline
> character. Words were being run together. If this happens after the code is
> removed it will have to be fixed in another way.
>
> John
>
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