[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Grade 2 and single letters
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:41:15 -0500
Lars,
By default, the liblouis compiler generates the following table entry:
noletsignbefore .
If you use a noletsignbefore opcode yourself this and other such entries
are not generated. The same goes for noletsign and noletsignafter.
Would it be better to remove these defaults?
John
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:29:58PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
> 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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