[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Regarding Danish Grade 1
- From: "Daniel K. Gartmann" <gartmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 17:03:45 -0400
Hi Mike,
Well, the 3 Danish characters are:
"æ" dots 345
"ø" dots 246
"å" dots 16
obviously, they can all be capitalized using dot 8.
And the "æ" and "ø" are not umlauts. the "ø" is an o with a slash
through it, and the "æ" is a and e.
Does this make any sense?
Best regards Daniel
Original message:
Hi Daniel,
The accents for the O and A did not come out in my e-mail. Are they
supposed to be umlauts? Also, what are the dot patterns for the Braille
equivalents of these characters?
FYI You can add these characters yourself.
In the Danish grade one table dn-dn-g1.utb you can add lines like the
following:
Opcode character-hex-value dot-numbers comment
For Example if I want to define the A-umlaut to be dots 345:
uplow \X00c4\X00e4 345 # A WITH UMLAUT
Uplow is the liblouis command for defining this as a character with both an
uppercase and lowercase braille character with the same dot pattern.
\X00c4\X00e4 This is the hexidecimal value for first the uppercase A umlaut
and then the lowercase a umlaut. The values can be looked up in the standard
Unicode chart.
345 is the dot numbers assigned to this character. If you want more than one
braille cell, you can seperate each cell with a hyphen.
The text after the number sign is a comment, reminding anyone who looks at
the file that this definition is for whatever character so they don't have
to look up the hexidecimal values in a unicode chart to find out what is
being defined.
If you update your own table please let us know on the list so they can be
included in the LibLouis project.
-----Original Message-----
From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel K.
Gartmann
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 2:40 PM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Regarding Danish Grade 1
Hi Mike,
I have tried the 3 files you sent me that make up the Danish Grade 1
table. I simply replaced the old files in NVDA with the files you sent me.
The 3 extra characters that are used in Danish are not showed
correctly. The characters are:
"æ", "ø" and "å".
Right now, I don't know what we can do about this, but at least I have
now communicated my latest findings. Hope we can resolve this somehow.
Best regards Daniel
Original message:
Hi Daniel,
Have you tried using the table from the LibLouis distribution package?
You
might get better results. I'll attach the table I use with our ViewPlus
software; it should be exactly the same as the LibLouis packaged table for
Danish. I'm not sure how NVDA references the tables though so you might
have
to re-name it to whatever NVDA looks for.
Also, I am working on a Danish contracted Braille table. Would you be
willing to test it when I'm finished?
Thanks,
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J.
Boyer
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 5:58 PM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Regarding Danish Grade 1
Daniel,
What do you mean by NULL characters? The da-1252.ctb table looks like it
was automatically generated from a brltty table. It is not suitable as a
source of character definitions for the Grade 1 table. You will probably
get more answers on Monday.
John
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 03:31:33PM -0400, Daniel K. Gartmann wrote:
Hi,
I would like to suggest that the Danish grade 1 table contains a
reference to the table "da-1252....".
I am currently using the "da-1252" table under NVDA, and this table
looks ok except for some weird NULL characters. I am not sure if this
is caused by Liblouis or NVDA, but the NVDA developers have referred me
to this list, so I hope someone here would be willing to help me on this
one.
I am a native speaker of Danish and a proficient braille user, so I
would certainly like to do further testing.
Thanks and best regards
Daniel Gartmann
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