[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: revised UEB table: first part done
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:28:00 -0600
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the info. How do the GB tables do in back-translation? That
is a big weakness of the current UEB tables.
What is the problem with getting a build of liblouisutdml in Windows?
Thanks,
John
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:45:53AM +0000, Paul Wood wrote:
> John,
> First I appreciate that the US tables are undoubtedly the best, but are
> they the best way forward for UEB?
> Do we have access to a list of differences from BANA to UEB?
> Maybe the Australians have one?
> The reason I ask is the gb or SEB tables might not be 100% but are
> pretty close, we have work at the moment checking this on a 'normal'
> book, but experience so far is very good, only picking up foreign words
> and problems with apostrophes and quotes etc.
> But we do have a good list of differences between the codes, so with a
> table expert, which I'm not! it should be quite easy to modify the SEB
> (gb) tables to UEB.
> I still haven't got a working latest liblouisudtml in windows, which has
> been the delay for us.
> I'm going down the DAISY pipeline2 route and have latest betas to test
> this week, which I hope to do today or Monday.
> If you can access a good list of differences for US to UEB, then of
> course that would be the best approach!
> more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille
> HTH
> Paul
>
> On 16/11/2012 10:14, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >Hi Joseph,
> >
> >Great work. I think that trying to fix the UEB grade 1 table would be
> >more work than modifying en-us-g1 for UEB. The en-us tables contain a
> >lot of knowledge that the persons who made the UEB tables didn't have.
> >
> > From what I know of UEB largesign opcodes should be replaced with always
> >joinword should be replaced with word or maybe deleted.
> >
> >John
> >
> >On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:03:01AM -0800, Joseph Lee wrote:
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>Attached is the revised UEB table based on en-us-g2.ctb. For consistency,
> >>I
> >>named the file as "en-ueb-g2.ctb".
> >>
> >>In the first part:
> >>
> >>. Modified the header to add my email address and wrote the fact
> >>that this table is for testing purposes only. Also declared that this
> >>table
> >>is based on en-us-g2.ctb.
> >>
> >>. Removed "ally" and "ation" contractions, as they are not needed
> >>anymore.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Just curious: are there any problems with uebc-g1/g2.ctb? If the problems
> >>are severe, then starting from scratch would be a good idea, with the
> >>basis
> >>for these tables coming from en-us-g1/g2.ctb.
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>//JL
> >>
> >
> >
>
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