[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Problem with all caps in en-us-g2.ctb
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:28:30 -0500
Aaron,
Your patch adds characters such as digits and punctuation marks which do
not have a case and are therefore the same in uppoer and lower case.
These were not included in the curent en-us-brf.dis because they are
unnecessary. Thanks fro the work, anyway. If someone wants to apply the
patch it will do no harm.
John
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 03:27:12PM -0500, Aaron Cannon wrote:
> The current en-us-brf.dis doesn't use the BRF standard either. I
> provided a patch that corrects this issue, but it was never merged,
> either because it wasn't accepted, or because it got overlooked. I'm
> not sure which.
>
> Anyway, I'm reattaching to this message in case anyone's interested.
>
> Aaron
>
> On 10/23/13, John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The brf standard requires letters to be in uppercase and also some
> > special symbols such as \ . liblouis uses lowercase so that translations
> > will look nice on a Braille display. Embossers accept either uppercase
> > or lowercaase. If you want something that conforms to the strict brf
> > standard use a tablelist like en-us-brf.dis,en-us-g2.ctb Bookshare does
> > this, but I don't think it is appropriate for the Braille Plus 18.
> >
> > liblouis would handle capitalized letters followed by uncapitalized ones
> > by inserting dots 6-3 The apostrrophe throws it off. A context rule
> > might work. Something like:
> >
> > $U1-20"'"[]$l @6-3
> >
> > Johnn
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:23:36PM +0000, Ken Perry wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I have been starting on fixing some of those problems I have found in
> >> en-us-g2.ctb. I now have a list of 99000 words translated by duxberry and
> >> the same list translated by en-us-g2.ctb. A blaring problem is
> >> capitalized words that end in 's. Liblouis translates the word AIDS'S as
> >> ,,aids's where as duxberry does it as ,,AIDS,''S
> >> I am a bit out of my legue on what rule will even affect that. I think ,'
> >> is an end caps sign but how do I make liblouis do it? Also I notice
> >> duxberry capitalizes all letters is there a reason we don't?
> >>
> >> Ken
> >
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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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