FW: XSL - Loss to braille style sheets?

This is an extract from a post to the protocols and formats group
of the Web Accessibility Initiative.
Another reason to ensure some form of procedural language
is kept - Internationalisation this time, rather than the braille 
using minority, or don't they count either.

No Paul, I don't want to have to wait two years.
DaveP

> > 
> > > Please note that the application of braille contractions is 
> > > a necessary pre-cursor to formatting, not a part of it.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the situation can be slightly more complicated than Dave
> > has suggested, if the following observations are taken into account.
> 
> Hyphenation definitely complicates the issue, and you give a lot
> of examples for that, but there may be some chance for help.
> 
> Braille, in its many variants, is not the only case where hyphenations
> can be less than trivial. For example, in German, sugar is Zucker,
> but is hyphenated Zuk-ker (at least it was hyphenated that way
> until the spelling reform of this very year). Similar examples
> can be found in many German Languages.
> 
> HTML, CSS, and XSL all currently have nothing more than the soft hyphen
> to indicate hyphenation (which takes care of re-cord against rec-ord).
> For internationalization, more seems to be needed. If we can combine
> the needs of both Braille and internationalization, we probably have
> a better chance of getting what we need, and the model should be back
> to what David Pawson wrote (transliteration first, then formatting).
> 
> There are other similarities between the needs of Braille and of
> internationalization. One is that conversion to Braille can easily
> be seen as an instance of transliteration (e.g. from Cyrillic
> letters to Latin letters). Another is that rigid grids appear in
> Braille as well as in Chinese (and a bit less in Japanese).
> 
> So for all these things, we should try to find solutions that
> can be developed together and have a wide usability.
> 
> 
> Regards,   Martin.


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