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

  • From: lars@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Lars Bjørndal)
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:29:58 +0200

Hello John!

After some more testing, I found that you are right. However, if a
single letter is followed by a period, then the letsign is not preceding
the character. Can you duplicate that?

The uper case character is defined with uplow opcode in the Norwegian
tables.

Lars

"John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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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