I think the hard part is actually getting BrailleBlaster to offer a user friendly way of editing this stuff.
Michael Whapples-----Original Message----- From: John J. Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:03 PM To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Translation of character entities This has worked from the beginning. What you may have to do is define some of the characters in liblouis tables. The hard part of that will be deciding what dot patterns to use. There are some common Unicode characters for which I don't know the correct dot patterns after years of searching. Good luck with the uncommon ones. John On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:22:49AM -0400, Keith Creasy wrote:
OK, that sounds good. Are you saying that it "will" do this at some future date or that it can be done now? Is this something we may need to work on?It isn't critical but I'm trying to develop a mental catalog of what remains to be done.Keith -----Original Message-----From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. BoyerSent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:48 PM To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Translation of character entities These entities will be converted to UTF-8 by the xml parser.liblouisutdml will then convert them to UTF-16 or UTF-32, depending on how it was compiled. This is not important. liblouisutdml then passes them to liblouis for translation. The liblouis table used must contain a character definition such assign \x1234 16-23This is a made-up example. the word sign indicates what kind of character it is. the \x gives the hex value the numbers in the third column give the dot pattern. If liblouis does not have a definition for a particular character it will place it in the output in the form '\xhhhh' so the user can look it up and supply a definition.John On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:35:34PM -0400, Keith Creasy wrote: > Guys. >> What is the best mechanism for correcting the translation of special > character entities, such as ࢬ, so the such items in the > NIMAS/DTBook file come out right?>> I'm running files through and letting others here take a look and the > results are pretty good so far.> > Thanks. > > Keith > -- My websites:GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc. http://www.godtouches.org Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.comLocation: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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