[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Issue with emphasis
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:24:04 -0600
Macros are in liblouisutdml. They might be used with the
liblouis exactdots opcode, but I think the best approach and the
least frustratingu would be to simply redesign the emphasis
code in liblouis from scratch.
John
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 08:16:58PM +0000, Paul Wood wrote:
> That is a great idea, but even John said the old emphasis code was such a
> can of worms! That's why he decided to go the macro route. I just never saw
> an email about how the macro bit could sollve the emphasis issues
which we
> need for italic, bold, underline in UEB.
> We have a new volunteer starting Friday so I hope will soon be able to
> reverse engineer the macro code and hopefully give us a solution.
> Paul
> On 19 Nov 2014 20:01, "Mesar Hameed" <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed 19/11/14,19:47, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > We have been considering doing our own emdphasis handling in the
Java
> > code of
> > > BrailleBlaster, so we would be interested how others do such a thing and
> > not
> > > use liblouis for emphasis and whether any issues were encount ered
in
> > doing
> > > that.
> >
> > It would be great if someone from Viewplus or APH could set aside some
> > development time to fix this directly in liblouis, this would probably be
> > better
> > than attempting workaround solutions in braille blaster, this would fix
> > the problem at the source, and would only have to be done once.
> >be to simhasis in liblouis.ly start over with empp
> > Because in the past code has been added without any tests its hard to
> > know when/where or how something is working, if we add the examples you
> > provide as tests that would be a good starting point to trace through
> > the code and see how it behaves under the various examples, which might
> > give a hint where the code is going wrong.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Mesar
> > For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >
> >
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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