[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Questions about fr-bfu-comp8.utb
- From: "Michel such" <michel.such@xxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:53:35 +0100
I John,
Oops, thanks for your comments.
I'll take a look at all this.
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From: John J. Boyer
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Questions about fr-bfu-comp8.utb
In comparing fr-bfu-comp8.utb with German computer braille I noticed
that in some of the uplow rules there is a space instead of a comma
between the two dot patterns. Is this deliberate? I also noticed that
several characters, including tab, are defined with dot 0 before the
space itself is defined with the same dot pattern. This will cause
trouble in back-translation. Space should be the first character defined
with dot 0. In defining tab, it would be a good idea to use virtual
dots, which were introduced after the early tables had been made. Tab
can be defined with dot 9, unbreakable space with dot a and escape with
dots 1b . These definitions are important when processing documents with
liblouisxml.
I see other problems caused by copying pieces from early tables, but
these are the ones I felt most important to call to the attention of the
list. Many of the early tables were made up before we really knew what
we were doing.
Sorry, Michel, I don't mean to pick on you.
John
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