[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: UEB translation
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:34:50 -0600
This sounds good. There is mounting interest here in the USA for
improving the present liblouis UEB tables, which are really pretty bad.
John
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Joseph Lee wrote:
> Hi,
> Since many of the signs between North American Literary Braille
> and UEB are the same, I think starting from United States Grade 2
> as a base table would be okay. I'd be happy to work on UEB signs
> for some contractions and test it on my BrailleNote (using NVDA
> and BRAILLETTY).
> For NVDA devs: if there is not a branch for new braille tables, I
> would be happy to create a branch called "bhlTables" to test new
> tables, specifically to test UEB and Korean braille.
> Cheers,
> Joseph
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
> To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date sent: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:19:44 +0800
> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: UEB translation
>
> I will say that with the US changing over to UEB it is critical
> we get this table working right.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Greg Kearney
> Association for the Blind of Western Australia
>
> On 15/11/2012, at 8:01 PM, Ken Perry <kperry@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I will ask again is anyone working on the UEB English tables I
> mentioned the about problem but we have found it is a bigger
> problem.
> Any short form word gets fully expanded within the word. So any
> word with the letters fr gets expanded to friend.
> The letters AF get expanded to "after" even if they are part of
> the word Africa.
>
> If no one is working on the tables we might but I don't want to
> duplicate work.
>
> Ken
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http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
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