[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Highlight liblouis features in the intro text
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:14:36 -0800
Sounds good to me too.
John G
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[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christian
Egli
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 7:51 AM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Highlight liblouis features in the intro
text
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):
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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.
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Any thoughts on this?
Thanks
Christian
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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
For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com
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