[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2009/05/25 at 22:01 -0400] >Hi folks, > >The grade 2 tables have the following line: > >endnum ! 12346 (factorial) > >This leads to some very strange output when doing just plain >text. Read this in grade 2: > >"Your work day will be 9 hours." > >"9! I thought it's be 8!"
:-) >I've removed the "factorial" line and it looks "right" according to >text display. I'm no mathematician, but I suspect nobody could stand >to use en-us-g2.ctb for math anyway. If I want to do math I use >computer braille. When you're doing things like factorial, you're also doing things like squared/squareroot. Those can't even be done in computer braille, at least in a way that a sighted person can either follow along or do the typing. You're entirely correct, therefore, that there's no need for this rule which indeed does mess up literary rendering. >(The fact that I know next to nothing of modern Nemeth code is probably a >factor here. :-) But en-us-g2 isn't a Nemeth code table. >I'd like to see us get rid of this "factorial" line. As I say, that's >how I run my version and I can include that change in my next patch, >but not being a math person I'm in no position to evaluate the math >impact. I just removed it. >What do you all think? I think it's an issue which reveals the need for someth9ing like UEB. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | 2011 May 21 is the Day of Judgement. EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | 2011 Oct 21 is the End of the World. http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
