[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Contractions near a slash
- From: lars@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Lars Bjørndal)
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:22:14 +0100
"John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Lars,
>
> I have been thinking about this problem. One solution would be to define
> "han/hun" with its own table entry, like defining contractions that
> cover more than one word. This would be like either/or in English, where
> the table entry would be
> word either/or 15-24-456-34-123-1235
> Note that this problem does not occur with and/or, because "and" is
> always contracted. There may need to be a change in the code, but I'm
> not sure what. A change might introduce worse problems than we have now.
Thank you. The problem with defining expressions like han/hun, is that
people may put whatever words they want infront and behind the slash
sign. So it will break a lot of situations.
Lars
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:21:51PM +0100, Lars Bj�rndal wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> While still working on the Norwegian liblouis tables, I found an
>> error, that I need some help to fix:
>>
>> The example is as follows: "han/hun" (he slash she). When using
>> xml2brl, the words "han" and "hun" is not contracted when the slash is
>> inbetween. In the table No-No-g0.utb, the slash character is defined
>> as math, which I suppose is correct. So what's the trick here to get
>> "han/hun" correct through liblouis?
>>
>> Lars
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