[brailleblaster] Re: Status and priorities for BB
- From: Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx>
- To: "brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:46:04 +0000
OK, thanks John.
Those other two items sound important too. Maybe not show stoppers but they
definitely belong among our top priorities.
Keith
Keith Creasy
Software Developer
American Printing House for the Blind
KCreasy@xxxxxxx
Phone: 502.895.2405
Skype: keith537
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Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Status and priorities for BB
Keith,
The additional information on the leading space problem will help me in
debugging. I'll give it priority. Other bugs that I think important are that
too many spaces are being placed before Braille page numbers and that placing
italic and other emphasis marks after the last word, as required by UEB does
not work.
John
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 02:48:20PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> Let me take a moment to update everyone and point out a couple of priority
> issues.
>
> As Vic noticed we do have a second branch going "WithBrailleFormatting" that
> is somewhat experimental. We want to merge this into the default branch but
> one issue is still preventing us from being able to do it. That issue has to
> do with leading space characters in certain elements causing the braille
> index attribute from being invalid. What seems to be happening is that the
> text is tranlslated and the index values are set. Later, the extra space gets
> trimmed but the index value remains so that we now have one more index value
> than we have braille characters. In some cases I think the leading space
> might be replaced with a new line element, but still the index value is left
> making the index attribute invalid.
>
> If we can get this problem fixed I think we are ready to merge the two
> branches and start testing. Most of the other issues seem to have been
> resolved.
>
> On another note, we have an image description tool for NIMAS and the decision
> has been made to merge that tool with BrailleBlaster so that we end up with a
> nice image description tool as a part of it. We hope to add it as an
> additional "perspective" so it really should have no effect on current
> functionality. It would share a few components such as the document, tree,
> and serialization components.
>
>
> Regards,
> 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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