[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: LibLouis table for six-dot Esperanto
- From: Aaron Cannon <cannona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: OlegShevkun <oleg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:33:30 -0500
Do you know who might have one of these? I assume it's not available
for sell anywhere, but I'm wondering if it might be available for
loan. I would love to see this converted to an electronic format. It
would be quite unfortunate if it were to be lost.
Thanks.
Aaron
On 7/17/12, OlegShevkun <oleg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Unfortunately, at least to my knowledge, such document does not exist.
> As far back as 1931, there was a publication outlining the standard of
> that time, and it was slavishly reprinted in 1989. All of these exist
> in braille only, and I have not found an electronic version.
>
> As for punctuation, you can safely follow the English standards, with
> the exception of the question mark, which should be dots 26. And, of
> course, capitalization is dots 46.
>
> Oleg
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> On 7/17/2012 6:56 AM, Aaron Cannon wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have not been able to track down an official defining
>> document for Esperanto Braille. I haven't even been able to discover
>> whether or not such a document even exists.
>>
>> I am CCing another individual who might be able to shed more light on
>> the situation.
>>
>> Thanks, and sorry I can't be more help.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On 7/16/12, Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Aaron,
>>>
>>> Did you get a chanse to see the below email?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -- Mesar
>>> On Tue 10/07/12,10:26, Mesar Hameed wrote:
>>>> Hi Aaron,
>>>>
>>>> Do you have full access to the formal braille standard for esperanto?
>>>> Could we possibly get a copy?
>>>>
>>>> There are several punctuation/math symbols that should be defined.
>>>> # | \ / [ ] { } @ ~ < > =
>>>>
>>>> Would you be able to find them for us please?
>>>>
>>>> Many Thanks,
>>>> Mesar
>>>> On Mon 09/07/12,09:13, Aaron Cannon wrote:
>>>>> Perfect.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>
>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/9/12, Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon 09/07/12,08:36, Aaron Cannon wrote:
>>>>>>> The problem with the line:
>>>>>>> include latinLetterDef6Dots.uti
>>>>>>> is that the w in Esperanto braille is not 2456. Actually, there is
>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>> W in the Esperanto alphabet, but it still has a representation in
>>>>>>> Braille because it can appear in "foreign words".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2456 is the j with circumflex. W is 23456. If there is a way to
>>>>>>> override a symbol from an included table, then you can use the
>>>>>>> latinLetterDef6Dots.uti file, as the w is the only one that is
>>>>>>> wrong.
>>>>>> Sorry for the mistake, now fixed in svn 721.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am fairly certain that this table should replace the 8-dot table,
>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>> I know of no 8-dot Braille code. To the best of my knowledge, the
>>>>>>> six-dot Esperanto Braille code is the only one that has ever been
>>>>>>> defined and used.
>>>>>> Ok, have also renamed it eo-g1.ctb to be closer with the naming
>>>>>> schema
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> are currently using, hope this is ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Mesar
>>>>>>
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