[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: UEB translation
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:21:02 +0800
So we are starting over from scratch on the UEB tables and should not use the
existing ones? I wish I understood writing tables better I am willing to help
in any way I can however.
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On 16/11/2012, at 4:34 AM, "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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