[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Grade 2 and single letters
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 13:29:23 -0500
Lars,
I think I will remove those defaults, then you won't have any
problem.
It's just a matter of deleting a few lines of code. The defaults were
originally put in to keep lazy table writers from complaining. I'll
change en-us-g2.ctb I don't know what other tables might need additional
noletsignbefore opcodes.
John
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:11:38PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
> 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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