[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Back-translation of French
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:01:20 -0500
Jonathan,
I want to give Michel Such a chance to reply before I comment
extensively. You have a good point that there may be a problem with
back-translation when the user-defined classes are used. The code of
lou_backTranslateString.c may need some adjustment.
Please describe your project a little further.
Thanks,
John
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:03:48AM +1300, Jonathan Sharp wrote:
> Hi John,
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> I'm evaluating the new French tables for possible use in a project that
> needs both forward and back translation. I've found some problems with
> back-translation and these are also present in the older French tables, so
> are not a result of the recent changes. Here's an example:
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> If I forward-translate "pierre" I get "pi(re", which is correct. Now if I
> back-translate "pi(re", I get "pi(re" still - the left-parenthesis is not
> translated back into "er".
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> If the "er" occurs at the end of a word, such as "marcher", then it is
> back-translated correctly. However in this case the "ar" contraction is not
> back-translated while the "ch" contraction is back-translated correctly.
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> Looking at the braille table there are two entries for "er", one for the
> middle of a word:
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> before con midword er 236
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> and one for the end of a word:
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> endword er 236
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> It seems the endword entry is back-translating correctly while the midword
> one is not.
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> The "ar" entries are:
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> before con always ar 4
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> endword ar 4
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> whereas "ch", which works only has one entry:
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> always ch 12356
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> Trying some of the other entries, I wonder if the problem occurs when the
> user-defined character classes, con, voy, etc. are used?
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> Jonathan
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