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Re: [Groff] Semantic tagging and accessibility
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [Groff] Semantic tagging and accessibility |
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Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:43:11 -0500 |
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Susan Jolly <address@hidden>:
> Here's just one small example where DocBook scale semantic tagging makes a
> difference to English braille in a way that might be unexpected to someone
> unfamiliar with braille rules. Braille is to some extent a shorthand and
> uses each of the letters to represent a word when the letter stands alone.
> For example, the letter _p_ translates the word _people_ and the letter _x_
> translates (arbitrarily) the word _it_. Braille translations thus have to
> insert a special braille escape character when a letter stands for itself
> rather than for the default word in order to avoid nonsense. (Using the
> braille equivalent of italics or quotes would be ambiguous.) In this case
> tagging the literal or symbolic use of letters with the equivalent of HTML
> <var> would avoid the need for heuristics in the braille transcribing
> software.
Thank you, thst was extremely educational. It also hands me an
argument for DocBook-centered document flows which I shall probably
get serious use out of when dealing with people who cannot be made to
care about the technical-merit arguments I'd rather make. "But think
of the blind people..."
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2006/12/29
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