If this is to be considered as braille to be back-translated, the number sign
(hash) should have been input as braille 4-5-6, braille 1-4-5-6. After I go
home I'll see what Duxbury does to this string. The output you got may be
correct, because the number sign puts you into numeric mode, and I'm not sure
which characters terminate numeric mode.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of
Congress
Washington, DC 20542 202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the
Library of Congress, NLS.
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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] UEB number sign followed by a non-digit.
I'm having to deal with what's admittedly an odd case, but am hoping there's a
solution for it. It's occurring when back-translating UEB, and the number sign
is followed by characters that don't belong there.
A simplified example would be the braille characters: ⠼⠞⠽⠏⠑
In case the five braille characters in this example aren't displaying for you,
they are the number sign (dots 3456) followed by the word "type".
This is clearly invalid so, of course, liblouis isn't at fault for not handling
it the way I wish it would. What I'm asking, though, is if there's a rule (or
set of rules) that I could add in order to get it to do what I wish it would.
What is does is back-translate it to the four characters "typ5". The number
sign disappears (as it should). The first three letters (typ), because they
don't correspond to digits, are translated as letters. The last letter (e),
because it corresponds to the digit 5, is translated to that digit.
What I'm hoping can be done is to add a rule (or rules) so that the number sign
will still disappear, but that it'll lose its special meaning if the first
character after it isn't a digit so that, in this example, the "e" will be
translated to an "e" rather than to a "5".
Can this be done?
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