[liblouis-liblouisxml] Finding rules: was: Re: Re: Testing the UEB tables

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:58:34 -0600

First, the @ (at sign) should not be "defined" with the always opcode. 
This is not a definition. Characters are defined with 
character-definition opcodes. In this case the correct opcode would be 
sign or punctuation. The definition should be in en-ueb-g2.ctb Search 
for the actual @ character in a text editor.

John

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 05:32:35PM +0000, Paul wood wrote:
> Sorry not to be answering your question here, but to do with testing 
> tables etc. Is there a way to know where a particular translation rule 
> is being obeyed from? To solve this problem we have:
> We want the @ sign to be 2346 etc. we check the table we presume it 
> should be in and it is defined as always @ 2346 so presumably something 
> else is interceding. Is there a way without systematically  going 
> through the tables to find the command which is overriding this one?
> Thanks
> Paul
> 
> 
> On 03/12/2012 4:21 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >Now that the UEB tables are in the liblouis svn we can test both
> >translation and back-translation. The best tool for this is
> >lou_allround, which is available if you have built liblouis on Linux or
> >Mac. It is completely interactive. After you give it a table name you
> >can type r for run and then type in anything you want. It will show both
> >the translation and back-translation and will even tell you if the
> >back-translation matches the original by displaying the message "perfect
> >roundtrip!"
> >
> >If there is sufficient demand this facility can be made available on
> >Windows through a BrailleBlaster subcommand.
> >
> >John
> >
> 
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