[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Grade 2 and single letters
- From: lars@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Lars Bjørndal)
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 20:11:38 +0200
Hi John!
> 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.
But what if I don't want any noletsignbefore, and not the default
either, what should then be present in the table?
> Would it be better to remove these defaults?
If it's possible to omit them, it's OK to me.
Thank you!
Lars
> 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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