[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Push of improvements to LiblouisUTDML
- From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:53:39 +0200
Paul Wood writes:
> Yes I know and our Volunteer was working on exactly what you suggest,
> but unfortunately is back at University now! So I'm not sure if/when
> this will be done! As you say it requires substantial changes to the way
> the lines are processed. I'm sure that's why you took the whole
> paragraph in the keepWithNext function!
Ah yes, now I remember :) That must have been it.
> Cheers
> Paul
>
> On 22/09/2014 13:30, Bert Frees wrote:
>> Excellent stuff Paul! Thank you very much.
>>
>> Just a minor remark about widows: I see that you implemented this
>> feature by moving the whole paragraph to the next page when it would
>> otherwise break and leave less then X lines on the second page. This is
>> OK, but a possible improvement would be to break the paragraph a bit
>> higher so that some empty lines are left on the first page and X lines
>> on the second page. Less valuable space is wasted this way. But again,
>> this is an optimalisation. In fact implementing it would not be
>> straightforward (it would require substantial changes in transcriber.c).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bert
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Wood writes:
>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> We have made some improvements to liblouisUTDML and would like to push
>>> these to the repository.
>>> they are:
>>> Corrected the centring of the lines which have page numbers on, which
>>> were slightly left if there was a page number on the right.
>>> Add widow control like orphan control. We haven't finished working on
>>> proper widow/orphan control which will allow splitting of the paragraph
>>> where there is a keepWithNext.
>>> Removed the extra space only if there isn't a space in the following
>>> element from InsertTranslation.
>>> Added End notes function. I'll send more details shortly how this all works.
>> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
>> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>>
>>
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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