[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Braille learning modes
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:50:46 -0500
Splitting up tables to contain contractions for various levels of
braille profiecency is a perfectly acceptable way of doing it. maybe we
don't need anything else. Other approaches are possible and can be
implemennted if there is enough demand.
John
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:39:08PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > the possibility has been raised offlist that liblouis might filter
> > tables to eliminate certain classes of contrractions to aid those who
> > are learning braille. I would like opinions on whether this should be
> > done by liblouis itself or by the application program that uses
> > liblouis, such as BrailleBlaster. In the latter case, the application
> > progrram would create new tables containing only the desired
> > contractions. These tables could be temporary or stored for later use.
>
> How would you do the filtering? Based on classes of opcodes? I would
> assume this cannot be automated, or at least not for every language.
>
> Of course this can be achieved today: Split a table into several tables,
> including only one class of contractions in one table. To get full
> contraction just specify all tables when doing a translation. To get
> partial contraction just pass a selection of the tables to
> lou_translate.
>
> We do something along this line to modularize our German tables.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Z??rich, Switzerland
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> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
--
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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