[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Bible in braille
- From: lars@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lars Bjørndal)
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:45:57 +0100
Hi, John and all
I still have questions to the bible braille translation. The generation
of a semantic action file, is easy and convenient. But I've other
questions. Please look further down.
I wrote:
> Paul Wood wrote:
>
>> I presume you are not trying to also format the UBS way with verse
>> numbers on a left hand column, as this is definately beyond anything
>> I have seen that hasn't been specifically written for Bible
>> formatting.
>
> I don't know the UBS abbreviation. Anyway, I think this is what we would
> like to do. Let me give an example. Please note that the period sign in
> the sample is to mark a new verse, and the apostrophe is capital sign
> (German braille character set):
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> #a 'in the beginning was the
> 'word, and the 'word was
> with 'god, and the 'word
> b was 'god. .'he was with
> 'god in the beginning.
> c 'through him all things
> were made; without him
> nothing was made that has
> d been made. .'in him was
> life, and that life was the
> e light of men. .'the light
> shines in the darkness, but
> the darkness has not under-
> stood it.
> f .'there came a man who
> was sent from 'god; his
> g name was 'john. .'he came
> as a witness to testify
> concerning that light, so
> that through him all men
> h might believe. .'he himself
> was not the light; he came
> 'john #a,a-h #a
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Here you can see that only the chapter has a number sign. Verse numbers
> are written without preceding number sign.
Also, you can see that the numbers have their own column, leftmost. Is
it possible to get liblouis/liblouisutdml to differentiate between
chapter numbering (they should have number sign) and verse numbering
(which are not to be embossed with number signs)?
> Also note the indents that
> indicates a new paragraph. At the end of a verse, the translator has to
> determine if there is room for some words of the next verse at the same
> line (except if a new paragraph starts).
John, do you think liblouisutdml will be able to handle this formatting?
Paul (look above), if I understand him correctly, thinks that
liblouisutdml isn't capable of doing it. What do you think? It really
shouldn't be necessary to write the braille edition of the bible by
hand?..
Regards,
Lars
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