[brailleblaster] Re: Important Next Step: Locking semantic action or style for specific elements in a specific document
- From: Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx>
- To: "brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:48:17 +0000
Yes, I thought about using "locked" braille. Another approach I thought of is
allowing BrailleBlaster to create an extended .sem file that is stored in the
document file set. It might have entries like:
no strong,id,strong_0002
that would override the settings in the default .sem file. We'd have to add
code to BrailleBlaster that would look for and use that .sem file if it existed.
I liked it because it didn't require us to "lock" the entire brl element. We
can ad an id attribute if the element doesn't already have one.
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Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Important Next Step: Locking semantic action or
style for specific elements in a specific document
I think that maybe it is time to implement "locked" Braille. To simplify things
at the beginning, if anything is changed in Braille the whole L<Lbrl> element
should be locked, that is, the atribute class="locked"
should be aded to it. liblouisutdml would then treat this <brl> element as
something to be inserted verbatim into the translation, except that <newline>
and <newpage> elements might be adjusted to maintain proper formatting.
John
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:15:32PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> All.
>
> This needs some thought and discussion particularly among the developers. I
> really knew it would be one of the first things users asked about, and indeed
> it is. Let me start with the use-case:
>
> A braille transcriber opens a NIMAS document using BrailleBlaster. The
> document contains a lot of <strong> elements which are, according to the
> nimas.sem file bolded in braille.The transcriber realises that the publisher
> used <strong> a lot more than would be desired or useful in braille so she
> wants to remove the bold symbols from the braille for specific <strong> or
> sections of the book containing <strong> elements. How do we implement this
> in BrailleBlaster or LibLouisUTDML?
>
>
> This might apply to other elements as well, such as a heading, emphasis, or a
> particular list. We are basically talking about making exceptions to the base
> semantic attribute for a specific element or group of elements for a
> specific document and making this easy to do from the GUI.
>
>
> Brandon and I talked about possibilities but I don't want to share them until
> others have had a chance to think about it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Keith
>
>
> Keith Creasy
> Software Developer
> American Printing House for the Blind
> KCreasy@xxxxxxx
> Phone: 502.895.2405
> Skype: keith537
>
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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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