[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Grade 2 and single letters

  • From: lars@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Lars Bjørndal)
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:45:07 +0200

Hi John!

> Lars,
>
> The English tables contain some tricks. The word "a" is given the opcode 
> largesign. This was done before the opcodes nolletsign, noletsignbefore 
> and noletsignafter were included. You should be able to write something 
> like:
>
> nolitsign e
>
> Each letter requires its own entry. The liblouis compiiler assigns some 
> letters and punctuation marks used in English to these noletsign opcodes 
> by defaulgt. However, if you use any of them it will not do so.

Thank you! Letsign and noletsign works for lower case letters. For upper
case, however, it doesn't. So, by using 'letsign 56', a single letter o
is translated into '<56>o', but a capital letter O is still treated as
'<6>o', not '<56><6>o'. Should that be fixed by adding the letter O as a
word?

Lars

> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:05:27PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I'm working on single letters and grade 2. How are you doing this for
>> the english tables in liblouis, e.g. why isn't the single letter word
>> 'a' output as '56-1' according to the tables?
>> 
>> I'm aware of the letsign and noletsign, but I cannot find these opcodes
>> in the English tables, neither can I find lines like 'word a 1'.
>> 
>> If choosing to use noletsign, should the characters be typed separated
>> by comma?
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