[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Testing the UEB tables
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 14:54:47 -0600
Hi Bert,
Could you update the API, that is liblouis.h.in ? That would be a step
forward and would encourage others.
Thanks,
John
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 08:53:28PM +0100, Bert Frees wrote:
> This is exactly why we added the rule tracing feature to liblouis some time
> ago. Unfortunately it's not documented anywhere, and it's not in the public
> API. So far it's only being used in a little Java tool I wrote. it would be
> great if somebody would find the time to integrate this feature in one of the
> developer tools (e.g. lou_debug).
>
>
> On 03 Dec 2012, at 18:32, Paul wood wrote:
>
> > Sorry not to be answering your question here, but to do with testing tables
> > etc. Is there a way to know where a particular translation rule is being
> > obeyed from? To solve this problem we have:
> > We want the @ sign to be 2346 etc. we check the table we presume it should
> > be in and it is defined as always @ 2346 so presumably something else is
> > interceding. Is there a way without systematically going through the
> > tables to find the command which is overriding this one?
> > Thanks
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > On 03/12/2012 4:21 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >> Now that the UEB tables are in the liblouis svn we can test both
> >> translation and back-translation. The best tool for this is
> >> lou_allround, which is available if you have built liblouis on Linux or
> >> Mac. It is completely interactive. After you give it a table name you
> >> can type r for run and then type in anything you want. It will show both
> >> the translation and back-translation and will even tell you if the
> >> back-translation matches the original by displaying the message "perfect
> >> roundtrip!"
> >>
> >> If there is sufficient demand this facility can be made available on
> >> Windows through a BrailleBlaster subcommand.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
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