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            This file describes the TODO items for the liblouis project.  	-*- org -*-


            When a task is done and accepted, consider moving it into the NEWS

            
            file, with a bit of extra info.


            * 2.6

            
            ** Document the changes to LOUIS_TABLEPATH

            
            ** Extend and document the scripting language

            
            http://www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/Very-preliminary-documentation-of-scripting-language


            * near term

            
            ** (google issue 9) bindings should provide variable to pick up table location at runtime.


            ** Fix the problem that LOUIS_TABLEPATH always looks in the standard PATH

            
            even if that was not in the environment var


            ** fix bug described by squash_space.c


            ** Esperanto table should not be blacklisted, work out whats wrong and make sure it is usable.


            * unallocated

            
            ** (google issue 16) infinite loop in lou_backtranslate.


            ** (google issue 6) italword opcode not documented


            ** (google issue 4) problem with contraction cursor position and compBrlAtCursor.


            ** Add java bindings

            
            It would be nice to have some canonical java bindings. There are

            
            several potential candidates:

            
            - Bindings by Michael Whapples

            
            - Minimal jna bindings by SBS

            
            - port jni bindings from utdml

            
            - new jna bindings by Bert Frees


            ** Enhance the API to handle pre-hyphenated text

            
            This basically just means to port the code which is in the java

            
            bindings to C so that it can be used from other bindings


            ** Add readline support to all the tools


            ** Use portable malloc from gnulib

            
            to get rid of the windows #ifdefs


            ** Enhance translation table compiler to issue warnings

            
            [jb]: It should be an error to define the same single-cell dot pattern

            
            for two different characters. I am considering issuing an error

            
            message and rejecting the table if this happens.


            [mh]: It would also be very helpful if we could issue a warning when a

            
            character has been defined as two or more braille representations.

            
            Could we have these as warnings, not errors please.


            ** followup to above enhancement, either at the terminal or when called by

            
            bindings, we should be able to give more useful feedback, i.e. could

            
            not translate because table not found, or table found but has errors,

            
            or characters undefined, etc. also see:

            
            http://www.nvda-project.org/ticket/2448


            ** Optimize for use with large tables

            
            When used with dictionary based tables liblouis is very slow. The

            
            issue is probably that the hash key is not very well suited for this

            
            use case and there will be tons of collisions, making the lookup

            
            essentially linear.


            There was a discussion about this on the mailing list

            
            (http://www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/Improved-hash-function-for-tables).


            ** apply the the patch by Igor B. Poretsky


            ** apply the jptest_patch
	This file describes the TODO items for the liblouis project. -- org --

	When a task is done and accepted, consider moving it into the NEWS
	file, with a bit of extra info.

	* 2.6
	** Document the changes to LOUIS_TABLEPATH
	** Extend and document the scripting language
	http://www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/Very-preliminary-documentation-of-scripting-language

	* near term
	** (google issue 9) bindings should provide variable to pick up table location at runtime.

	** Fix the problem that LOUIS_TABLEPATH always looks in the standard PATH
	even if that was not in the environment var

	** fix bug described by squash_space.c

	** Esperanto table should not be blacklisted, work out whats wrong and make sure it is usable.

	* unallocated
	** (google issue 16) infinite loop in lou_backtranslate.

	** (google issue 6) italword opcode not documented

	** (google issue 4) problem with contraction cursor position and compBrlAtCursor.

	** Add java bindings
	It would be nice to have some canonical java bindings. There are
	several potential candidates:
	- Bindings by Michael Whapples
	- Minimal jna bindings by SBS
	- port jni bindings from utdml
	- new jna bindings by Bert Frees

	** Enhance the API to handle pre-hyphenated text
	This basically just means to port the code which is in the java
	bindings to C so that it can be used from other bindings

	** Add readline support to all the tools

	** Use portable malloc from gnulib
	to get rid of the windows #ifdefs

	** Enhance translation table compiler to issue warnings
	[jb]: It should be an error to define the same single-cell dot pattern
	for two different characters. I am considering issuing an error
	message and rejecting the table if this happens.

	[mh]: It would also be very helpful if we could issue a warning when a
	character has been defined as two or more braille representations.
	Could we have these as warnings, not errors please.

	** followup to above enhancement, either at the terminal or when called by
	bindings, we should be able to give more useful feedback, i.e. could
	not translate because table not found, or table found but has errors,
	or characters undefined, etc. also see:
	http://www.nvda-project.org/ticket/2448

	** Optimize for use with large tables
	When used with dictionary based tables liblouis is very slow. The
	issue is probably that the hash key is not very well suited for this
	use case and there will be tons of collisions, making the lookup
	essentially linear.

	There was a discussion about this on the mailing list
	(http://www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/Improved-hash-function-for-tables).

	** apply the the patch by Igor B. Poretsky

	** apply the jptest_patch