[brailleblaster] Re: Characters less than 0x20

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:51:32 -0500

Well, we will have to handle programming books eventually. Of course, 
lines could end in <br/> This would also solve the buffer overrun 
problem. 

John

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:01:18PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:09 AM
> > To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [brailleblaster] Characters less than 0x20
> > 
> > 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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> > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> > http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> > Madison, Wisconsin USA
> > Developing software for people with disabilities
> > 
> > 
> 
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> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
> 
> 

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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities


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