[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: accept-table option (was: xpath Expressions in .sem Files)
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:16:24 -0600
Christian,
Have a nice vacation. This is indeed food for thought, as you say at the
end of your message, but at least it isn't fattening. The lang attribute
would be interpreted by the liblouisxml library itself. libxml2 does
have a function for getting the value of the lang attribute.
John
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 05:44:07PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > I will discuss assigning tables to languages in a separate message. It
> > has required a good deal of thought,.
>
> Since I'm going to leave pretty soon and will be off-line until next
> year I just wanted to outline the my ideas with regards to this.
>
> Basically the xml:lang attribute in an xml file will give you the
> language of the document (or any part of the document for that matter).
> This is not enough to determine a table but in many cases this is all
> you're going to get. The other information like grade, etc needs to come
> from a different place. This is where a thing similar to the HTTP
> Accept-Language header
> (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html) comes in. The
> idea is that the user defines which grade she wants to read for a given
> language. An (arguably contrived) example might make this more clear:
>
> Say Eve reads English grade 2. She's also pretty proficient with French,
> so she'd like to read that in grade 2 as well. She also understands the
> odd German word but doesn't grok their contraction rules but
> nevertheless wants to read contracted Braille, so she'd like to read
> German with English contraction rules. All the rest she wants contracted
> with English contraction rules. This could be translated to the
> following option for xml2brl:
>
> xml2brl
> --accept-table=en;en-us-g2.ctb,fr;Fr-Fr-g2.ctb,de;en-us-g2.ctb,*;en-us-g2.ctb
>
> Another story altogether probably is that you need to tell the reader
> that there is another language and possible another table coming up,
> i.e. some form of announcement in the Braille.
>
> I'm not sure if this covers all use cases, but I could imagine that this
> would cover the needs of my users. Food for thought :-)
>
> Thanks and happy holidays
> --
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Z??rich, Switzerland
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com
--
John J. boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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