[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Automatic Determination of Language or Country
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:05:25 +0100
Hi John
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 11:37 -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> I think Christian asked about automatic determination of language using
> he lang attribute. This
> can be done, but it would probably be desirable to change some
> configuration settings, such as for styles, rather than just the
> translation table.
>
> The best way to do this would be with new semantic actions. liblouisxml
> traverses the tree produced by libxml2 twice. The first time, it
> analyzes the tree to gather information for the translation. The
> second time it actually does the translation. The new semantic actions
> would take place during the first traversal. They would be:
>
> configfile xxx operand
> configstring xxx operand
That sounds better than my approach as it would allow to specify the
behavior for each language, i.e. for this language I want uncontracted,
for that one grade 1, etc.
Thanks.
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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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