Hi Greg.
Thanks. Sure, you'll get the final version. The only remaining
request I have is to fix the TODOs in the tables. I originally
put those comments in all tables, but experts on the braille code
in question should never leave them there.
One TODO is about the need for a reference to documentation of
the braille code. Either add a suitable link to some official or
unofficial documentation, or say that there is no documentation
and explain in your own words what the table is based on. In this
case I guess we should refer to the UEB
specification (
http://liblouis.org/braille-specs/english/#unified-english-braille-ueb)?
But I'm not completely sure about it. More about this below.
The other TODO is about unverified metadata. If you as table
author have put the metadata there, I assume you have verified it
so you can obviously omit the comment. So I'll just delete the
comment? That is, after we've cleared up my question about
the "#+system" field (see below).
You already explained that all of the South African Braille codes
use UEB. But what is not totally clear to me is whether they are
**based on** UEB, or if they **are** UEB. I have seen the "UBC" page
by Christo on the website of the South African Braille Authority
which says that all the South African braille codes have been
unified in accordance with **the principles of the UEB**. But he
doesn't make a clear distinction between UBC and UEB.
So how do I need to interpret it? Is UBC UEB without the
contractions for English? Is the new braille code for Afrikaans
UBC with the contractions for Afrikaans? Where are the
contractions for Afrikaans defined? Christo's page says that
compared to the old code, nine contractions have been dropped,
but it doesn't say which ones.
Final question: would it make sense to also keep the old tables
for the South African languages in Liblouis? Even though they are
out of date, there may be some people that are not interested in
switching (even if the changes are minimal)?
Looking forward to your answers,
Bert
Op ma 12 aug. 2019 om 16:28 schreef Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>:
Here is the answers to the various issues:
All of the South African Braille codes, Afrikaans is just the first to get
done, now use the UEB tables to represent the accented letters. So yes
World Braille Usage is now out of date on this. It is correct to remove the
reference to it.
While we could have just run an include to the UEB tables we felt it best
if Afrikaans had both a Grade 1 and Grade 2 table file so that people
needing Grade 1 Afrikaans would know what table to use.
I am getting from Christo de Klerk the contact details he would like to
use.
The dates need to be updated to 2019
Any other changes you feel are needed please do so but could we get the
final version of the tables that will be included sent back to us?
Thank you.
Greg Kearney
On Aug 12, 2019, at 9:11 AM, Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:expect little problems. But we have a few remarks that should be addressed.
Hi Greg,
Yes, definitely will do our best. It is a very good contribution, so I
What would be the best way to communicate these to you? We have made
comments on the Github PR that Christian made from your patch. Can you guys
comment on the PR or how shall we do it?
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/pull/807
This is the link to the PR:
