[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: UEB update
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:18:38 -0600
Great work, Mike. I'm glad to see young programmers taking up the
torch.
John
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 05:41:06PM +0000, Michael Gray wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> I had originally had LibLouis insert a word_reset automatically for the
> hyphen opcode, and added an apostrophe and initial opcode for the ' and .
> characters, but it seems that UEB standard says that any non-alphabet
> character should cause a reset, so they were not needed.
>
> The behavior right now is that LibLouis ignores word_resets when determining
> passages, then checks them for words not in a passage. This seems to
> correctly hit a bunch of the examples in the specification like
> "MERRY-GO-ROUND", "A SELF-MADE MAN", and "INITIALS OF WRITER/initials of
> secretary".
>
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 12:32 PM
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> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: UEB update
>
> Well done Michael!
> You have identified a couple we had picked up with the British braille that I
> didn't know how to fix.
> Another one that has just happen, but I haven't had time to investigate is a
> dash between e.g. 19th-20th
> but that is to do with the minus sign and as UEB is happy with a dash as a
> minus that will solve this problem for us!
> Cheers
> Paul
>
> On 11/02/2015 17:14, Michael Gray wrote:
>
> I have uploaded an update to my UEB Capital/Emphasis code. It is available
> at https://github.com/MikeGray-APH/liblouis in the mrg-emphasis branch.
>
> In order to better transcribe what the standard expects the behavior has been
> changed. The previous description of behavior is no longer valid. Also
> first/last word before/after is not implemented but will be soon.
>
> A passage_break and word_reset have been added to the typeforms to give the
> user better control over how LibLouis transcribes. The passage_break will
> cause a passage to restart at that point. A word_reset causes a character to
> be treated like a hyphen or apostrophe, although LibLouis does not require
> them for hyphens, apostrophes, etc.
>
> Attached is a text file containing the current differences between what the
> UEB standard says and what LibLouis outputs. Right now it is mostly letter
> indicators and such with a few exceptions.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> MRG
>
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