[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: The word "Page" in print-page indicators...

  • From: Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:40:34 +0000

Yes, that thought is what prompted me to write this message. I guess we need 
some mechanism for deciding what should or should not be a part of a print page 
number in a given code/language.


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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: The word "Page" in print-page indicators...

I would ask a fourth question: Are there any Braille codes where including 
other text (eg. the word page) would be desired? IE. Should this be optional?

In answer to question 1, I seem to remember having seen a document or book 
where the page numbers at a certain point did contain something else. I cannot 
remember which document/book it was, but I have a feeling it may have been 
numbering within the appedices. I will see if I can find that document/book.

Michael Whapples
On 18/07/2014 18:13, Keith Creasy wrote:
Hello.

I am looking at fixing a problem we've found. When you transcribe a DTBook or 
NIMAS file the <pagenum> element sometimes has other characters in it besides 
just the page number. One book in particular we are working with uses the word 
"page" like <pagenum>Page 1</pagenum>

This results in the word "page" ending up on the print-page indicator line. Our 
transcribers tell me this is not correct. I see where LibLouisUTDML does this 
and can fix it but I want to be sure it is fixed the right way. Here are my 
questions:


1.       Do print-page indicators ever have anything other than roman or Arabic 
numerals?

2.       Should we define the characters that represent numerals in the 
configuration? Is there another way?

3.       Is there a call to LibLouis that might use the translation tables or 
chardefs to facilitate this?

Thanks.

Keith




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