Re: brltty and simultaneous grade 2 translation

["John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>]

Dave,
This all sounds fine to me. Now about the format of the translation table.
Since we want to accomodate many languages, I think it would be best to put
each rule on a line by itself and to use a simple space between the parts of
the rule. As I see it, each rule would consist of a source string, a space,
the destination string, space, and a number that specifies whether the
source string is a whole word, should be translated only if it is in the
middle of a word, etc. If either the source or destination string includes a
space, we can arrange for an escape sequence. This would be necessary no
matter what separation character we used.
John

Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Mielke" <dave@mielke.cc>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 14:19
Subject: Re: brltty and simultaneous grade 2 translation


> [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on November 26, 2001, at 13:10]
>
> >I prefer a pointer and a length also. I think it would be a good idea to
> >have a global variable containing the length of the Braille display, so
it
> >wouldn't have to be passed.
>
> I prefer passing it via a parameter so that, should the imagination kick
in, we
> can get more inventive regarding what gets translated when.
>
> >I can pass back an aray of the position in the
> >input buffer of each character in the output buffer, but I feel a bit
> >uncomfortable about doing cut and paste in Grade 2 because Grade 2 isn't
1
> >for 1. I would probably turn off Grade 2 before doing cut and paste.
>
> As long as the array identifies non-first characters of sequences, BRLTTY
could
> easily enforce that only the first character of a sequence can be used
when
> cutting. Better yet, the first character should be used for the start of
the
> selected text, but the last character should be used for the end of the
> selected text. The array, however, need only mark the first character of
each
> sequence, as BRLTTY could easily figure out the rest.
>
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