[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Testing the UEB tables
- From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:14:19 +0100
Yesterday I took some time to write a prototype of a tool that prints out all
the applied rules for a given translation table and input string. It's in SVN
and it's called lou_trace. Tell me what you think.
Bert
On 03 Dec 2012, at 20:53, 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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