[brailleblaster] Re: The current controversy
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:09:45 -0500
Yes. Something like WordPad is what I have in mind.
liblouisutdml already implements the formatting rules for U.S> Braille
through the preferences.cfg file. Peoplein other countries have probably
tweaked it for their own rules. They are not standard across countries
and languages.
As discussed somewhere in the thread on the block diagram, it turns out
that most of the things I thought should go in BrailleBlaster
configuration files actually belong in the UserSettings file or in the
semantic-action file for a particular flavor of xml. I'll be revising
the block diagram acordingly.
Michael pointed out that somebody might misuse the facilities of an xml
flavor by indicating a heading with a font change, for exxample. That is
something we will have to watch out for. Another example is documents
containing more than one language, where authors usually don't use
markup to indicate which language is being used.
The specification does need to be updared with what we have learned form
experience and what APH requires.
Let's take a rest on this Sunday.
John B.
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 07:49:46AM -0700, John Gardner wrote:
> Hello all, I am in the middle of an actual vacation and am trying to spend
> as little time as practical doing anything else for a few weeks. I have
> skimmed the BrailleBlaster communication and think it is time to go back to
> the specification document and update/expand it. That document was written
> largely by me with contributions from John Boyer and severl others. It is
> intended to say what BrailleBlaster should be from the point of view of the
> end user. It does say that one should be able to create simple documents
> and to import a variety of document types. It does not say that it should
> be a full-featured word processor, but it does list a number of standard
> functionalities it needs. Crudely speaking, it does not need to mimic MS
> Word, but it does need to have most features of WordPad. So let's go back
> to that spec document and work through it line by line until we all
> understand the goals.
>
> John G
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