[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: How to produce text and melodi in braille

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:44:30 -0500

Hi Lars,

Music can be represented in xml. This could be translated to Braille
music notation, but it never got done. In fact there is a stub module
for this purpose in liblouisutdml. If someone wishes to develop this
module it should be a straightforward coding endeavor, though it may
require a good deal of effort.

The segmentation fault with the -l option did not occur in older
versions of file2brl . It was probably introduced when changes were made
to use the liblouis enhanced logging capability.

Underlining such as you describe would be a departure from the way
liblouis and liblouisutdml work. It could be approximated using 8-dot
Braille.

BrailleBlaster will probably handle music eventually. Underlining could
be handled as a tactile graphic.

John

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 10:23:59PM +0200, Lars Bjørndal wrote:

Do any of you have ideas on how to write music, with text and melodi, in
braille? Let's say I have a HTML file with the text, and convert it with
file2brl. In the resulting brl text file, I could write the melodi. But
then, how can I reformat the content, so that the pages is filled with a
proper amount of characters?

Lars
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