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

  • From: Lars Bjørndal <lars@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 15:42:50 +0200

Hi, John!

I'll reply inline.

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.

That's good to know. For my concrete situation, I think it's much
easier to write up teh braille notes manually, than to first produce
the xml file. That way, I have good control on how to devide the
text/music into appropriate pieces.

So I was more looking for a way to reformat the result, so that the
pages is corectly filled and the page numbers ar replaced. What
actually does the -r option to file2brl do, could that be of any help?

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.

Yes, I think you are right.

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

I ment to use an example within six dot braille, not eight dot, sorry
for that. One way to devide into different heading levels is to
underline some of them. So I think it would be a nice feature to have.

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

I rarely use GUI tools, so CLI or an emacs mode would be a better
approach to me,personally.

That said, twoonthsago, I tried BrailleBlaster with Window-Eyes and
the Java access bridge. I noticed that the focus didn't follow the
cursor while editing or switching between windows.

Lars

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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