[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Question regarding liblouis/liblouisxml handling of non-MathML math
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:06:15 -0500
Chris,
On thinking about this matter a little more, I realized that if the
files have well-defined tags surrounding math material liblouisxml
should be able to detect it automatically and translate it into Nemeth
code without being told. That is what it does with MathML. The key is to
write the semantic-action file correctly. From your rdading of the
documentation you will know that liblouisxml producq a prototype
semantic-action file when it encounters a new type of xml document. If
you can send me a file of the type you are concerned about I will
produce
the semantic-action file and add it to the next release. Then you won't
have to specify anything on the command line.
John
without being told to do so.
yeshould
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:31:01PM -0700, Chris von See wrote:
> I'm not a braille expert, but I was hoping that it would be possible
> to tell liblouisxml (via the command line, preferably) that the input
> file contained Nemeth code so that liblouisxml could tell liblouis to
> translate it as such. Is that not possible?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
> On Aug 15, 2008, at 5:06 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >Chris,
> >
> >I see you are already on the list. Processing books that use math but
> >not MathML poses difficulties, since the equations are not well-
> >defined.
> >It is difficult to know where the mathematical material begins and
> >ends.
> >Please send me such a file so I can examine it.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >John
> >
> >On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:36:56PM -0700, Chris von See wrote:
> >>Hi all -
> >>
> >>I'm processing files that can potentially contain math which is not
> >>in MathML format - equations such as:
> >>
> >><p>a + b = c</p>
> >><p>x<sup>2</sup> = (3b)/7 + x</p>
> >>
> >>where <p> and </p> are the tags for paragraphs, and <sup> and </sup>
> >>are for superscripts. Do any of you liblouis/liblouisxml users
> >>attempt to convert this material to Nemeth code or do you just leave
> >>it in literary code? If you do attempt to convert to Nemeth, do you
> >>try to do any math detection yourself so that you can tell liblouis
> >>to use Nemeth to translate the file?
> >>
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>Chris von See
> >>For a description of the software and to download it go to
> >>http://www.jjb-software.com
> >
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