[liblouis-liblouisxml] lastworditalbefore and italsign
- From: Bert Frees <bert.frees@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:58:02 +0100
Hi all,
I've been trying to improve the British Braille rules for italics. From
the documentation I got from Paul Wood, I learned that the British table
should contain the following entries:
italsign 46
firstwordital 46-46
lastworditalafter 46-3 <= problem!
lenitalphrase 4
firstletterital 46-2
lastletterital 46-3
But there is one problem: For some reason, in liblouis, the opcodes
|lastworditalbefore| and |italsign| are synonyms. It is the italic sign
that is placed before each word in a sequence of 3 or less words, *and
also* the italic sign that is placed before the last word in a sequence
of more than 3 words. Moreover, you can't use
|lastworditalbefore/italsign| and |lastworditalafter| in the braille
table. So the line...
lastworditalafter 46-3
... is ignored. Is there a specific reason why |lastworditalbefore| and
|italsign| are synonyms? For British, it would be better if these
opcodes were split.
Regards
--
Bert Frees
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Dept. Elektrotechniek - ESAT - SCD
Onderzoeksgroep Documentarchitecturen
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442
B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven
België
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