I'm not sure that re-synchronizing by letting liblouisutdml fix the formatting will work in all cases. My wife is a braille transcriber - she uses MegaDots primarily and DBT as a backup, and she often needs to fix things in the BRF that the tool has not translated and formatted in accordance with BANA textbook formatting rules. Granted, MegaDots is an old program, but perhaps the need to perform manual "fixes" may still apply. Susan may have some insights into this as well.
Cheers Chris On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:46 AM, John Gardner wrote:
Hi Chris, interesting comments. It would be good to keep word wrap for braille. If that means that word wrap is still needed for the text, wlel,that would not be a disaster. It will still be up to the user to keep things in synch.Word wrapping of the text will seldom be a problem, so maybe we should just ignore it and leave word wrap on. I see no problem with inserting manypages of braille. The "right" way to re-synchronize would be to just retranslate and let liblouisutdml fix formatting. John G -----Original Message----- From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris von SeeSent: Monday, June 06, 2011 9:26 AM To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Latest News Hi John G - Thanks for your comments. I didn't realize that word wrap would be turned off on translated content. I'm not a transcriber, but I would think that requiring a user to scroll horizontally in order to see the entire braille line would be very inconvenient - it's certainly a pain in a normal text editor. This situation may happen fairly often - even if the user has their braille font sized to a more "normal" size - since braille cells are so much wider than their text counterparts, and especially if the user is translating to grade 1 braille. If a user adds additional lines solely for the purpose of keeping views synchronized, what happens to those lines when a user embosses? How does the tool distinguish a blank line that was added for visual reasons from a blank line added because of braille formatting rules? I think there is at least one case where turning off synchronized scrolling (or allowing for some sort of re-synchronization) would be appropriate - to allow a transcriber to insert content (braille or text) that exceeds the visible size of the StyledText control. If I'm adding braille preliminary pages, for example, that content may or may not appear in the text but will almost certainly exceed the size of the braille control's visible area (p-pages can run anywhere from five to 100 braille pages depending on the book). Cheers Chris On Jun 6, 2011, at 8:54 AM, John Gardner wrote:Hi Chris. Below I put my interpretations of what the specs are or maybe what they are supposed to be. John G -----Original Message----- From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris von See Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 8:38 AM To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Latest News I have a couple of questions on scrolling two StyledText controls together: If a line of text translates into more than one line of braille JAG: This cannot happen. Word wrap is removed once the text window shows the translation, so the line may go off the page, but it doesn't wrap to another line. Unless a user is using a huge font, this should never happen anyhow. or if the user edits the braille to insert preliminary pages, transcriber'snotes or other additional content that doesn't appear in the text, howwill the scrolling controls behave? JAG: If a user adds lines or otherwise changes the line formatting, well I presume that the two views will continue to scroll, but the lines will be mismatched below the point where this occurs. A user can put additional lines into both views to keep things synchronized, but she has to do it. Is the scrolling line-by-line based on the lines as seen by the StyledText control, will the synchronization between the two controls be based on whatever content appears at the top of each control, JAG: Yes or will you use another strategy? and will end users be able to "un-synchronize" the two StyledText controls so that they can be scrolled independently? JAG: No, the user cannot turn off synchronized scrolling. I see no overwhelming reason that someone would want to do it. So KISS.