[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Compressing whitespace on a node by node basis in LibLouisUTDML
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:52:45 -0500
BrailleBlaster can do editing. When I translate something to read I set things
up for the usual case, the one that will give the best readability.
John
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:26:51PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> Yes John. It is easy enough using BrailleBlaster to add a missing space in
> the content. Much more difficult to fix it if LibLouisUTDML is doing the
> wrong thing.
>
>
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> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Compressing whitespace on a node by node
> basis in LibLouisUTDML
>
> John, this is very strange. How can one distinguish am emphasized letter or
> phrase that is part of a word from emphasized words or phrases unless spaces
> are explicitly indicated somehow? If one writes in html and leaves out
> spaces between two text spans, those two text spans have no space between
> them in the output.
>
> John G
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J.
> Boyer
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> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Compressing whitespace on a node by node
> basis in LibLouisUTDML
>
> I put the \s in dtbook.sem to keep words from running together. It causes a
> space to be placed before the text in the em tag. Without it there are a lot
> of words run together in Bookshare files. That is messy, because it makes
> liblouis think that there is an ialicized part of a word. I don't know if it
> is necessary in nimas.sem .
>
> nemeth.sem uses the third column a lot. You can see how it is used by looking
> at transcribe_math in transcribe_math.c .
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 06:18:07PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> > John.
> >
> > Yes, it seems simple that \s means a single space but when it's in the
> line of a semantic action file such as :
> >
> > Italic em \s
> >
> > What is the effect? A single space is added every time the <em>
> > element is
> encountered? This seems unnecessary. Maybe it isn't actually needed. I am
> assuming someone put it there for a reason but I can't think what it might be.
> >
> >
> > I'd suggest these be removed from nimas.sem and epub.sem until we find
> > a
> reason to add them back.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J.
> Boyer
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2:12 PM
> > To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Compressing whitespace on a node
> > by
> node basis in LibLouisUTDML
> >
> > What would be the criteria for suppressing whitespace only for certain
> nodes? The compression is done in insert_text in transcriber.c
> >
> > \s means a single space, just as it does in liblouis.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 05:58:27PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > Is it possible to get liblouisutdml to compress the whitespace only
> > > for certain nodes in a document?
> > >
> > > Also what is \s meant to do when it is in the third column of a
> > > liblouisutdml semantic action file? I have gathered it has something
> > > to do with spacing but cannot locate any documenting of this.
> > >
> > > Michael Whapples
> > >
> > >
> > > For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> > > 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
> >
> > For a description of the software, to download it and links to project
> pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> > For a description of the software, to download it and links to 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
>
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages
> go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages
> go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> 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
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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