[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Highlight liblouis features in the intro text
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:29:28 -0600
Christian,
Sounds great! How about adding at the end "the library comes with tools
for testing and debugging tables."
On another topic, can you change the license from GPL to LGPL? I
couldn't do it for some reason. This is important, because, as someone
on the ist once said GPL is the kiss of death for any commercial
application. We want the software to be used as widely as possible,
while still remaining fully open-source.
Thanks,
John
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:50:58PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I was talking to a major Braille software vendor last week and they were
> telling me all the great features that their software has. That got me
> thinking that many if not all these features are also supported by
> liblouis and liblouisxml. These features should probably be mentioned a
> bit more prominently on the web site. There is no need to hide our
> capabilities :-). So I drafted up the following replacement text for the
> front page of the liblouis Google code page (and this could probably
> also be added at the top of the README file):
>
> -------------------
> Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It
> features support for computer and literary braille, supports
> contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages
> (Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
> English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek,
> Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
> Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese,
> Welsh) and has support for hyphenation. New languages can easily be
> added through tables that support a rule- or dictionary based
> approach. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg).
> The formatting of braille is provided by the companion project
> liblouisxml.
>
> liblouis is based on the translation routines in the BRLTTY
> screenreader for Linux. It has, however, gone far beyond these
> routines. It is named in honor of Louis Braille. In Linux and Mac OSX
> it is a shared library, and in Windows it is a DLL.
> -------------------
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks
> Christian
> --
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com
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