[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Grade 2 and single letters
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 09:36:41 -0500
Lars,
Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you. I've been busy with UTD
and bugs in general.
The letsign opcode works with both upper and lowercase letters in the
eng-us tables. How are uppercase letters defined in your tabbles?
Thanks,
John
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
> 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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