So if I understand that correct, only a list or linear format for a table output is going to be possible at the moment if only modifying semantic action files?
It might have been good to have a way of also providing smaller table formatting to be spatial.
Michael Whapples On 21/03/2014 14:39, John J. Boyer wrote:
A message a few days ago from Brandon quoted a part of the liblouidutdml documentation about using the third column of a semantic action to insert a semicolon after each column in a table. This is a common method of handling tables. A general method will indeed be hard. John On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:27:46PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:Hi Michael very interesting discussion. Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> writes:In the longer term and thinking of when formatting is dealt with by something new, in a higher level language, may be more advanced choices can be done, what do we want to do?Generally I have to say that I like the approach that the Braille Modules in the DAISY Pipeline 2 take in that the source XML is handled in XSLT (a language geared for that purpose) with callouts to the formatter. So all the normalizing of the table (re row and colspan), flipping or linearizing of it is done in XSLT. The XSLT doesn't know anything about page dimensions, for that it has to query the formatter. This will generally give you a much better story when it comes to transforming the source xml. You could then also handle transcriber hints as you call them. That way you can separate the task of preparing a document from the task of formatting a document. This will enable you to make best use of utdml without having to rewrite the whole thing. HTH Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland ----- SBS Leser, die neue Hoerbuch-App fuer iPhone und iPad. Mehr Infos unter http://online.sbs.ch For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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