[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Control characters and compiling Liblouis tools under Windows
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:37:24 -0500
Birkir,
You can assign mult-cell dot patterns to single characters, but you must
define the pattern used in each cell previously. for example, using U.S.
braille, we would first have defined the letter a and the sign ~ as
single-celled characters:
uplow Aa 18,1
sign ~ 45
Then control-a would be defined as:
sign \x0001 45-1
There is already a windows binary for liblouis and liblouisxml It does
not have the latest version of liblouisxml, however. There is also a
description of how to make a Windows binary. Both are on the downloads
page at htp://www.abilitiessoft.com
Forget .dis files for your tables. Just define characcters with the dot
patterns used in your country.
John
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:30:13PM +0000, Birkir Gunnarsson wrote:
> Listers
>
> I have a question regarding control characters (the first 32 characters in
> ascii".
> In 8-dot braille. Am I allowed to sign a multiple cell expressions to these
> characters?
> For instance
> Dots 1278 \x0002 start of text
> I would prefer to preface all control characters with a standard symbol such
> as dots 5678 so
> Dots 5678-1278 \x0002 start of text
> Is there a problem with this from a LibLouis point of view?
> This would both note to the reader that here is a special control character
> symbol and would also free up 32 single cell dot combinations for use on
> other symbols, giving me greater flexibility in deciding the most appropriate
> symbols for other characters.
> I feel taking up 32 symbols for something that is extremely unlikely to ever
> be denoted in braille is a bit of a waste.
>
> Secondly I am wondering if anyone has successfully compiled the test tools
> for LibLouis under Windows and what compiler and steps were taken. It's been
> years since I programmed in C and I am not sure how best to go about this.
> Also there does not appear to be any mention of this in the manual.
> I would be happy to go through the effort, if someone can direct me, and
> write down the steps taken to be included in the manual for future releases.
>
> Finally I am not sure of the purpose of the .dis file. The manual never
> mentions a .dis file so I am not sure what purpose it serves compared to the
> .utb files or .cti files (are these explained better under brltty manual)?
>
> Thanks very much
> -Birkir
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