[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Is this a bug
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:40:36 -0500
Yes, the apostrophe is a punctuation mark. It is defined as such by the
punctuation opcode.
John
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:31:39PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> Where are the word delimiters defined? Shouldn't these be defined somehow in
> the tables? The apostrophe is a punctuation mark but as far as I know, at
> least in English, it isn't used as a word delimiter.
>
>
> Keith
>
>
>
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> the testing for the endword opcode looks for a letter preceding the string
> and a space or punctuation following it. What is in the sreing is immaterial.
> Similarly, the word opcode looks for a space or punctuation both before and
> after the string. The string can contain anything. The opcode names are just
> convenient mnemonics.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:23:16AM +0000, Ken Perry wrote:
> >
> > In the new UEB tables we have the following:
> > Word so 234
> > If you have something like:
> > Ken's
> > The back translation comes back as
> > Ken'so
> > Unless I put in the following:
> > Endword 's 3-234
> > My question is should the 's be treated as a word or is this a translator
> > bug? I didn't think we should actually have to put that second rule in to
> > get that to work. It seems to me that a word rule should only work on a
> > full word right?
> >
> > Ken
>
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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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