[brailleblaster] Re: Translation of character entities
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:48:27 -0500
Well, this is a liblouis activity. BrailleBlaster would have to offer a
way to create and edit liblouis tables.
John
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 04:10:01PM -0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> 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. Boyer
> >Sent: 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 as
> >
> >sign \x1234 16-23
> >
> >This 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
> >>
> >
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> >
>
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