[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Tamil braille table
- From: Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:44:29 +0000
Hi Dipendra,
you mean:
# Copyright (C) 2010 Leon Ungier <Leon.Ungier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
# Copyright (C) 2010 Mohammed R. Ramadan <mramadan@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Copyright (C) 2010 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
As far as I know they have not contributed to the new (working) table.
Not sure if attribution is needed when the previous table was not working.
@Christian please add the above three lines and commit if this is appropriate.
Thanks.
Mesar
On Wed 22/02/12,16:08, Dipendra Manocha wrote:
> Hi Christian and John
>
> This problem was reported when we started working on improving the Indian
> Language Braille tables. We took up Hindi as our first case and could not
> resolve the letter and always opcode issue. Many mails were exchanged at
> that time on this issue.
>
> Regarding names, this is about prologue of the table which has commented
> lines about contributors of the table. I can make the changes on that front
> to submit the table.
>
> Thanks
> Dipendra
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J.
> Boyer
> Sent: 22 February 2012 15:29
> To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Tamil braille table
>
> As I understand it, the problem with the Tamil tables is that the always
> opcode does not work when characters are defined as letters. However, nobody
> else has reported this problem. Also, I hesitate to work with a language I
> don't knnow.
>
> I am aware of a bug regarding emphasis that also needs fixing. I've been
> looking for that one for months. However, my priority right now is
> liblouisutdml because ViewPlus Technologies needs it and it is also needed
> for BrailleBlaster.
>
> I'll let Christian discuss test suites. It would be nice to have tests that
> would make certain that changes to the code don't break something else.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:15:27AM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > I agree with you that unless the underlying problem is fixed, it
> > > might be dificult to improve the table much further, but we wanted a
> > > working solution so that tamil braille support can be included in
> > > future nvda releases.
> >
> > So what exactly is the problem with liblouis? Has this been reported
> > before? Maybe we could create a test case that clearly exhibits the
> > problem then it would be easier reproduce and hence make it more
> > likely to get fixed.
> >
> > > I feel that many problems can be found and ironed out if the
> > > liblouis had an extensive test harness for the various tables.
> >
> > I'd be happy to work with you on this.
> >
> > > This is how I personally managed to quickly find a somewhat working
> solution.
> >
> > Are you saying you have some kind of test harness?
> >
> > > Maybe Christian can merge in the names from the old tamil tables
> > > before deleting and committing this new one.
> >
> > I'm confused. What am I supposed to do?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Christian
> >
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